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Extreme Programming (XP) is a new software engineering process model that has attracted much attention recently. XP claims to offer “ridiculously simple solutions” to avoid many serious software engineering problems. In this paper we analyse XP using the classical model of management functions, namely planning, organising, staffing, leading, and controlling. XP declares a set of 12 official practices. Our exposition shows that in fact XP uses many more unofficial practices. These unofficial practices address subjects in management science that are known to be far from simple. If these unofficial practices are taken into account, then XP may still offer solutions, but they are definitely not “ridiculously simple”.
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Wendorff, P. (2002). An Analysis of Extreme Programming Based on the Classical Model of Management Functions. In: Harindranath, G., et al. New Perspectives on Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0595-2_17
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