Chapter 33. XP on a Large ProjectA Developer s View | Extreme Programming Perspectives

Chapter 33. XP on a Large Project A Developer's View

Amr Elssamadisy

At ThoughtWorks we have adopted a modified version of XP that has been tailored through our experiences to suit a large project of over 35 developers, eight analysts, and seven quality assurance (QA) testers. This project, a leasing application that we internally called ATLAS, started three years ago with the standard analysis and design front-loading of traditional development projects. This chapter is written from a developer's point of view the experiences and the techniques that were tried and either became habit because they were useful or never quite caught on. We take the different practices that are encouraged by XP in Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained [Beck2000] and give our feedback on each practice. Then, in summarizing, we recommend what changes must be made to the XP process to be able to use this methodology and still produce quality code at a fast pace for a large project.