Voice of eXPerience (VoXP) Stories

You d be forgiven for thinking that some of these stories are satire (like the no coffee before 10:30 AM incident). But each VoXP story listed here is a real-life account of experiences on an XP project.

XP from the Trenches	24 “25
Let One Snake Loose, And	64 “65
Tales From the Front Line	90
Snack Food	99
No One Touches His Drink Unless I Say So!	100
A Stinky Noisy Room	136
Pair Programming Social Dynamics	140 “143
Pair Programming Ergonomics	146
Overuse of Pair Programming	148 “153
Pairing Replaces Documentation .	169
Oral Documentation	174
The Quality Contradiction	187
Unit Testing	189 “190
Aspects of Testing	192
YAGNI 16 Tests	193
Refactoring the Database	222 “223
Recovery via Not XP	252 “253
eXtreme Road Building	257
Estimation and Short Time Frames	258 “260
Stumbling Around .	262 “263
The Simplest Build System	305 “306