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Extreme Programming Dying?

Is Extreme Programming Dying? I've been reviewing my fellow students reports on extreme programming.(I am a student myself) Some students are claiming that extreme programming lacks in empirical ...
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Is extreme programming out of date?

I have stumbled across this graph and I wonder if someone would care to explain the results? As you can see, extreme programming (XP) is practically uninterested and has almost disappeared from ...
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What is the difference from the push and pull development models?

I was reading Extreme Programming Explained, Second Edition and in the chapter 11 "The Theory of Constraints" the authors talk about the old and obsolete "push" development model and the XP way, the ...
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How do you perform modeling in an Extreme Programming environment?

I know methodologies, like Extreme Programming (XP), which specifies its own specific practices for developing software. However, unlike Scrum where it focuses more on management aspects, XP specifies ...
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Scientific evaluation of programming methodologies [closed]

There are now a a variety of programming methodologies: Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban to just name a few. Most of them combine several more basic techniques (for example frequent iterations). ...
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“Release Early Release Often” for Android and iPhone Apps

I wanted to know the experiences others have about doing the Agile way of "Release Early, Release Often" with iPhone and Android Apps. Its not a problem with webapps as the update happens at the ...
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Developing scalable applications using Agile methods

Maybe someone can share from his experience about developing an application that is meant to scale big time where just throwing more money at better hardware isn't a realistic option using development ...
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Release Planning in Agile/Extreme Programming

I've been studying couple of books of how to exactly implement agile. I am confused about release planning. Our application is a Insurance System consisting of different modules (Quoting, Policy ...
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How can I influence my team to become more agile

I consider myself an agile developer, I have set up CI in the last three teams I have worked with, and in my previous role worked in a style which revolved around writing failing tests before fixing ...
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Is collective code ownership mandatory in Scrum?

Is is an absolute must when following the Scrum methodology to practice collective code ownership, instead of for example weak code ownership?
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Any recommendation to manage an investigation projects?

I'm working on an investigation on the NLP field. Since software engineering and software documentation are not the primary concerns of my whole investigation I decided to do it using XP. My question ...
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How often should you change pairs?

In the company I'm currently working on, we've been doing pair programming for a while now. In the current project, for the last couple of days, we've been trying to make our pair programming a little ...
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Is Extreme Programming (XP) incompatible with ideas expressed in Peopleware?

I have just finished reading Peopleware (DeMarco, Lister) and have researched on Extreme Programming (XP) a little before. As I see it now, the two approaches are almost exclusive to each other. ...
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Is there a name for the concept of a hierarchy of many short methods in a class

A refactoring I commonly do is where I come across a large method such as public void doSomething() { // do First thing doPartA1(); doPartA2(); //now something else ...
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Extreme Programming Projects Failures

I searched the web for examples of extreme programming failure but I couldn't find any. I found success stories, but I want to learn about the "other side of the coin". So my question is only ...

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