XP and Object Thinking

This book is based on the following beliefs:

• Agility, especially in the form of extreme programming, is essential if the software development profession, and industry, are to improve themselves .

• XP offers a way to create better developers to improve the intrinsic abilities of human beings to develop software for use by other human beings ”a way to produce master developers.

• XP cannot be understood , and those practicing XP will not realize the full potential of the approach, until they understand object thinking and the shared historical and philosophical roots of both object thinking and XP core values and practices.

• In particular, programmers and technical developers will fail to realize the full potential of XP-based development without a thorough understanding of object orientation ”the object thinking promised by the title of this book.