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Article:
  Five Lessons You Should Learn from Extreme Programming
Subject:   eXPosing the Incompetent?
Date:   2003-08-17 13:42:53
From:   anonymous2
I worked on various medium-sized programming projects for 25 years, teams of 5-20 with some people leaving and others joining rather frequently. Our customers were in-house. Generally the programs had complex algorithms, were old and constantly in need of maintenance and major extensions. These 5 lessons are a good summary of what worked when things worked.


However, when I consider XP as a whole, the one thing that would have made the biggest difference--by factors of 10--to success on the projects I worked and others I am familiar with would have been the eXPosure, through pair programming or code reviews, of the amazingly inept persons who were often the ones who stayed around the longest.