Convincing the inconvincable

  • Authors:

  • Geoff Oliphant

  • Affiliations:

  • Thought Works Inc., Eastcheap, London

  • Venue:
  • XP'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Extreme programming and agile processes in software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Despite the increasing knowledge base within the IT industry world-wide about the tremendous benefits of XP and Agile processes, there is still a long way to go to convince a lot of developers. A side effect of this popularity is that XP practices may have a negative connotation for some. This may result in a reluctance to try or adopt any of these practices. This paper describes some strategies that may be employed by project team members to help those that seem "inconvincable" to recognise some of the benefits of XP. Introducing XP should be an evolution not a revolution.