Sample Projects

The following projects had significant XP influence:

Large Atlas leasing system

- Three years, 60+ people, Java technologies, an E100 project, [Schuh01]

- Fully adopted practices: simple design, testing, frequent refactoring, collective code ownership, continuous integration

- Pair programming was attempted, but did not stick. There was no onsite customer.

- Prime developer: ThoughtWorks.

Medium Orca security incident-response

- One year, 25 people, a D40 project, [Morales02]

- Fully adopted practices: most practices, with the exception of small, frequent releases as this was a commercial product.

- Prime developer: Symantec.

Small C3 payroll

- One year, 10+ people, an E20 project [C3Team98]

- Fully adopted practices: This was the original project that defined XP, coached by Kent Beck and Ron Jeffries. All practices were adopted.

- Prime developer: Chrysler.