An Ethnographic Study of XP Practice

  • Authors:

  • Helen Sharp;Hugh Robinson

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK h.c.sharp@open.ac.uk;Department of Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK h.m.robinson@open.ac.uk

  • Venue:
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Agile methods are a response to more rigorous and traditional approaches to software development which are perceived to have failed both customers and software development practitioners. eXtreme Programming (XP) is an example agile method and we report on an ethnographic study of XP practice carried out in a small company developing web-based intelligent advertisements. We identify five characterizing themes within XP practice and summarize these findings in terms of XP culture.