Extreme programming: the good, the bad, and the bottom line

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E A h, Extreme Programming! It began as a kind of software counterculture collection of ideas. The subtitle of Kent Beck’s innovative book Extreme Programming Explained is Embrace Change, and Erich Gamma’s foreword to the book says “there is no doubt XP challenges some traditional big M [methodological] approaches.” But now, at least in some circles, XP is becoming the “in” way to develop...