List of Sidebars

Introduction

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Chapter 1: XP in a Nuthouse (Oops, We Mean Nutshell)

Samurai Debugging

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XP from the Trenches

Chapter 3: The Case Against XP

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Voice of eXPerience: Let One Snake Loose, And . . .

The Refactorers Responsibility

The Snake That Got Away

Assimilating the Team into the Collective

The Eternal Cat

Example of a Logical Process

Chapter 4: Extremo Culture

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Voice of eXPerience: Tales from the Front Line

Internet Years

Free Pizza!

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Voice of eXPerience: Snack Food

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Voice of eXPerience: No One Touches His Drink Unless I Say So!

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The Extremo Inquisition (This May Sound Familiar)

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It All Depends on the Fear

Is XP Itself Driven by Fear?

Chapter 5: The On-site Customer

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The Extremo Inquisition, Round 2

Chapter 6: Pair Programming (Dear Uncle Joe, My Pair Programmer Has Halitosis)

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People You'd Least Like to Pair With (No. 48)

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Voice of eXPerience: Pair Programming Social Dynamics

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The Adventures of Uncle Joe and Jack the Siberian Code Hound

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Voice of eXPerience: Pair Programming Ergonomics

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Voice of eXPerience: Overuse of Pair Programming

Chapter 7: Oral Documentation (Oxymoronic, or Just Plain Moronic?)

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Did Oral Documentation Kill C3?

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Voice of eXPerience: Pairing Replaces Documentation

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Voice of eXPerience: Oral Documentation

Chapter 8: Design After First Testing

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Voice of eXPerience: The Quality Contradiction

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Voice of eXPerience: Unit Testing

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Voice of eXPerience: Aspects of Testing

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Voice of eXPerience: YAGNI 16 Tests

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Camp Regretestskiy

Chapter 9: Constant Refactoring After Programming (If It Aint Broke, Fix It Anyway)

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Theres No TIME to Write Down Requirements

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Voice of eXPerience: Refactoring the Database

How Simple Is Simple Enough?

Chapter 10: User Stories and Acceptance Tests

Round and Round the Story Goes

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Symbolic of a Greater Problem

Being Negative

Anticipating Failure Modes: Not the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work

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Listening Without Preconceptions

Fangs for the Memories

User Stories Defanged

Chapter 11: Software Is Never Done (The Schedule Does Not Exist Per Se)

Refactoring the Agile Manifesto

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Voice of eXPerience: Recovery via Not XP

Managing Change Through Up-Front Design

Refactoring Iteration

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Voice of eXPerience: eXtreme Road Building

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Voice of eXPerience: Estimation and Short Time Frames

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Voice of eXPerience: Stumbling About

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A Night at the Payroll Project: Optional-Scope Contract Scene

Fangs Is Running Rampant

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Chapter 12: Emergent Architecture and Design

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The XP Societys Annual Picnic

Top 10 Emergent Architectures We Hope We Never See

Why XP Deliberately Starts with a Poor Architecture

Keeping the Design Agile

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eXtreme Building (XB)

Emergent Fangs

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Chapter 13: Embracing Change (Embrace People, Manage Change)

Constantly Fighting Emergent Entropy

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Small Releases Can Delay the Minimum Feature Set

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When Change Is Free

Constant Refactoring Not Realistic in Small Companies

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Voice of eXPerience: The Simplest Build System

Pair-Watching the Progress Bar

Refactoring the Design Before CodeSurely That Would Be Too Extreme?

Change Defanged

Chapter 14: Scalability

Throwing Away Code

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The Piggy Scale of Process Robustness

XP Coach vs. Team Leader

SP: The Opposite of XP

Fangs Gets Too Big for His Boots (What Kind of Snake Wears Boots, Anyway?)

Scalability Defanged

Chapter 15: Refactoring XP

Contingency vs. Embellishment: Why XP Gets It Wrong

Working Within Your Organization

Of Course XP WorksWere Doing It!

Continuous Integration Combined with Test-First Design

Agile Goals, Fragile Practices

Taking a Goal-Driven Approach

Chapter 16: Conclusion: Neutralizing the Reality Distortion Field

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Voice of eXPerience: Packaged Dogma

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Neutralizing the Reality Distortion Field