Piloting XP on Four Mission-Critical Projects

  • Authors:
  • Jerry Drobka;David Noftz;Rekha Raghu

  • Affiliations:
  • Motorola;Motorola;Motorola

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Software
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Software development teams face a continuous battle to increase productivity while maintaining or improving quality. Often, a project's mandated ship date requires that software development begin with only a portion of the requirements defined. Recently, several Motorola software development teams faced these issues. They decided to pilot Extreme Programming to mitigate the risk of changing requirements and improve productivity. The results indicate that if developers are willing to work hard and carefully introduce an agile process into their organization, their efforts should yield positive results.