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The Gemplus and Axalto’s horizontal merge in 2006, brought several challenges, resulting in a period of general instability in the newly created company. As a result, the Gemplus Personalization Team for Latin America put in place five of the twelve Extreme Programming Practices as a tool for incrementing and transferring knowledge between the two companies and among the existing/new members of the team.
In addition to a successful knowledge transfer, results from this newly adopted approach, showed several benefits: collective code ownership, development autonomy, cleaner/more readable code, and an increment in development productivity, proving that in addition to being useful for practical knowledge transfer, XP Practices are a successful ’tool kit’ to improve the software development process performance in short-life projects.
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Tellez-Morales, G. (2009). XP Practices: A Successful Tool for Increasing and Transferring Practical Knowledge in Short-Life Software Development Projects. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Maurer, F. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_20
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