Mark Windholtz spent the first 12 years of his programming career writing code alone in a cubicle. But now when Windholtz creates code, he does so with a comrade at his side--one of the tenets of the ...

For the last five years, a software development methodology called Extreme Programming (XP) has been receiving more attention. It is either admired or condemned from a multitude of sources.

Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology that makes coding the primary activity. By promoting values such as simplicity and feedback, XP allows Java programmers to incrementally ...

If you have managed a software project, you know what it's like to feel the push for results from your managers working against the pull of your dedication to the well-being of your development team.

Some time ago, I wrote about the general problem of misconceptions about Extreme Programming. Now I'd like to tackle a specific misconception – the idea that Extreme Programming (XP) projects begin ...