Extreme Programming and Agile Software Development Methodologies

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As a stakeholder of a software project, how does this sound to you? You can have releases as often as you like. The small number of defects is unprecedented. All of the features in the system are the most valuable ones to your business. At anytime, you have access to complete, accurate information as the status of any feature and of the quality of the system as a whole. The team developing your project works in an energized space with constant communication about the project. You are not dependent on any one or even two programmers for the continued success of the project. If your needs change, the development team welcomes the change of direction.

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The last half-century has seen a dizzying progression of technical advancement in the areas of computer, software, and communications technology. With each advance came rapid changes in the way society works and lives. The impact of technology is increasingly pervasive. Even as the current economic downturn limits capital investment, innovators and entrepreneurs are pushing the limits in areas of biotechnology and nanotechnology. Supporting all of these advances is software running on some kind of computer. From the spreadsheets to anti- lock brakes to phones to toys, logic that was once implemented in mechanics, circuitry, or pencil and paper, is now a set of instructions controlling one or many computers. These computers communicate with each other over networks ignorant to the limits of geography and even wires. The notion of a program running on a computer is largely a memory as the emergence of distributed computing models, most recently Web Services, allow many different computers to participate in the “running” of a program or system to yield a given output.
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