[Sussex] Another job

[G.J. Teale]

Thomas Adam <thomas at edulinux.homeunix.org> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 03:50:39PM +0000, G.J. Teale wrote:
> > As that spec implies the successful candidate will spend their
> > days working in pairs on code relating to a suite of applications
> 
> Interesting.  This suggests some form of Extreme Programming.  Is that
> how things are run there?  I'm very much interested in the applications
> of such concepts, since I only ever touch on them from an academic point
> of view.
> 


We do something very like XP, and we use that name on occasion as an
easy way of describing it.  We don't do everything exactly as XP books
prescribe, instead we have a process that has evolved as a result of
us trying out ideas and seeing what works.  I believe the idea that a
rigid process defined in a book could fit the myriad of forces in work
in an real work place is a little naive.

For the record, the ideas that we take from XP are:

  * Pair programming
  * Test first development
  * Stories
  * On sight customers
  * Iterations
  * Continuous re-factoring 
  * User acceptance testing


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