From the course: Agile Software Development: Extreme Programming
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Extreme programming (XP) values
From the course: Agile Software Development: Extreme Programming
Extreme programming (XP) values
- [Instructor] Extreme programming is also based on five values, communication, simplicity, feedback, courage, and respect. Building software is a collaborative activity. Even if there were only one person building the product, that one person would be building it for someone else. Those two people would need to communicate effectively for the product to meet the needs of that stakeholder. You might have experience what happens when they don't communicate well. You end up with a product that's hard to use, or it does the wrong thing, or it simply doesn't work at all. And most software is built by teams, not single people. As Mel Conway puts it, "Organizations that design systems "are constrained to produce designs that are copies "of the communication structures of the organizations." In many ways, the quality of a software product represents the quality of the team's communication amongst themselves. The simplest solution to solve a problem will be the fastest and easiest one to…
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.