Lean from the Trenches

XP in a Nutshell

Extreme Programming (XP) is a software development approach that Kent Beck created in the mid-1990s. It is based on the values of simplicity, communication, feedback, courage, and respect. XP evolved in parallel with Scrum and, in fact, includes most of the same elements. For example, on-site customer in XP corresponds roughly to product owner in Scrum.

In that sense, Scrum can be seen as a “wrapper” around XP, focusing on structural issues and external communication, while XP duplicates most of that and adds some team-internal engineering practices. These include the following:

• Continuous integration: Have a system that automatically ...