Turning the knobs: A coaching pattern for XP through agile metrics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2418, Issue , 2002, Pages 60-69

  Krebs, William ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

TEAM MEMBERS;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84944257011     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45672-4_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Wake, William. XP Radar Chart. 2001. Web Site On-line at http://www.xp123.com/xplor/xp0012b/index.shtml This is an important article to read to see how to check for ‘unbalanced’ levels of adoption between XP practices.
2. Multiple Authors on Ward Cunningham’s Wiki Web Site. Discussion of XP and CMM on Wiki: 2001. On-line at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?XpAndTheCmm
3. Williams, Laurie. Multiple papers on Pair Programming. Web Site. On-line at http://www.pairprogramming.com This site has links to Laurie Williams’ key articles on pair programming.
4. Jeffries Ron, Editor. Xprogramming.com 2002. Web Site. On-line at http://www.xprogramming.com This site has a good introduction to XP in general but also the relationships between the practices.
5. Kerievsky, Joshua: Continuous Learning, Paper at XP2001 http://industriallogic.com/xp/ContinuousLearning.pdf This paper give specific ideas on how to help the team learn and continue learning. The study group idea in particular would fit well with the grass roots survey approach.
6. Beck, Kent. “eXtreme Programming eXplained”, Addison Wesley, 1999. The original. This book helps explain the interdependencies between practices, and as a great ‘web’ chart showing the relationships. Don’t forget to read his Bibliography.
7. Wake, William. “Extreme Programming Explored” Addison-Wesley 2002. This work is very readable yet does a great job of explaining the XP practices and includes helpful down to earth examples.
8. Jeffries, Ron and Anderson, Anna and Hendrickson, Chet. “Extreme Programming Installed”. Addison-Wesley 2001. This book is most useful but also includes illustrations of the authors
9. Succi, Giancarlo and Marchesi, Michele. “Extreme Programming Examined”. Addison- Wesley 2001. This book is good because it contains a collection of papers from many authors. It is a good source for Laurie William’s papers on Pair Programming.
10. Hightower, Richard and Lesiecki Nicholas. “Java Tools for eXtreme Programming”. Wiley Computer Publishing. 2002. This book has great explanations of many open source java tools that are key in supporting XP testing practices. If you don’t use XP, at least read this book for the tools!