Adjusting to XP: Observational Studies of Inexperienced Developers

@incollection{citeulike:1640821, abstract = {Extreme programming (XP) has been introduced in various scenarios primarily because some in industry argued for a move away from what they feel are rigid documentation-based development techniques. This has usually taken place with experienced developers. This paper describes attempts by researchers from the University of Sheffield to introduce XP to relatively inexperienced student developers. This paper describes some of the important findings and provides evidence relating to common problems encountered when students attempt to adjust to XP. Keywords: Extreme Programming, Agile Methods, Empirical Software Engineering}, author = {Karn, John and Cowling, Tony and Syed-Abdullah, Sharifah L. and Holcombe, Mike}, citeulike-article-id = {1640821}, doi = {10.1007/11499053_32}, journal = {Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering}, keywords = {archive, empirical, observatory}, pages = {222--225}, posted-at = {2007-09-10 10:28:23}, priority = {2}, title = {Adjusting to XP: Observational Studies of Inexperienced Developers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11499053_32}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1640821 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1640821 N2 - Extreme programming (XP) has been introduced in various scenarios primarily because some in industry argued for a move away from what they feel are rigid documentation-based development techniques. This has usually taken place with experienced developers. This paper describes attempts by researchers from the University of Sheffield to introduce XP to relatively inexperienced student developers. This paper describes some of the important findings and provides evidence relating to common problems encountered when students attempt to adjust to XP. Keywords: Extreme Programming, Agile Methods, Empirical Software Engineering JF - Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering EP - 225 TI - Adjusting to XP: Observational Studies of Inexperienced Developers SP - 222 KW - archive KW - empirical KW - observatory AU - Karn, John AU - Cowling, Tony AU - Syed-Abdullah, Sharifah AU - Holcombe, Mike PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11499053_32 ER -