Summary of the Primary Practices

[Kent Beck]

Here are the practices posted so far:
* Sit Together
* Whole Team
* Informative Workspace
* Energized Work
* Pair Programming
* Stories
* Weekly Cycle
* Quarterly Cycle
* Ten-Minute Build
* Slack
* Continuous Integration
* Test-First Programming
* Incremental Design

I would like to hear experiences of applying these practices, especially of
the effects of applying them together. I would also like to hear if people
agree or disagree with my classification of these as primary practices,
potential safe starting places for XP. Are there other practices that make
safe starting places?

I would like to thank the group for their participation and energy so far.
Next week I will begin posting the Corollary Practices.

Kent Beck
Three Rivers Institute

[Rachel Davies]

This collection of practices is pretty much what we used at Connextra
with the exception of Ten-Minute Build (we were releasing code into a
live production environment several times a week). The team at
Connextra was founded in 1999 using the practices from the c2 wiki - we
refined them using reflection as we went along. Slack and Informative
Workspace were added in 2001 and moved to Weekly Cycle in 2002. The
obvious missings are Metaphor and Coding Standard - we certainly used
Coding Standard at Connextra but replaced Metaphor with something
closer to Eric Evans' Ubiquitous Language.
I have tried starting teams with smaller subsets of these practices -
for example, Whole Team, Informative Workspace, Stories, Weekly Cycle,
Continuous Integration - with mixed results - sometimes finding
barriers to adding more practices. In my experience, Sit Together and
Slack are crucial for a sustainable process.

Rachel Davies, UK
www.agilexp.com

On 5 Feb 2005, at 05:00, Kent Beck wrote:

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> Here are the practices posted so far:
> * Sit Together
> * Whole Team
> * Informative Workspace
> * Energized Work
> * Pair Programming
> * Stories
> * Weekly Cycle
> * Quarterly Cycle
> * Ten-Minute Build
> * Slack
> * Continuous Integration
> * Test-First Programming
> * Incremental Design
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> I would like to hear experiences of applying these practices,
> especially of
> the effects of applying them together. I would also like to hear if
> people
> agree or disagree with my classification of these as primary practices,
> potential safe starting places for XP. Are there other practices that
> make
> safe starting places?
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> I would like to thank the group for their participation and energy so
> far.
> Next week I will begin posting the Corollary Practices.
>
> Kent Beck
> Three Rivers Institute
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