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Extreme programming

Extreme programming

- Another popular framework for agile teams is Extreme Programming, the creators of Extreme Programming or XP were also a key part of the group that wrote the manifesto. Some agile experts believe that most of what teams think of as agile actually came from XP. XP allows software teams to work quickly and embrace changes. These teams can quickly pivot to take advantage of new information. They call the methods Extreme because they thought to deliver software effectively, you needed to make extreme changes to the software development process. At first glance, scrum shares a lot of the same ideas as extreme programming. In fact, the very first scrum book said that you should use scrum to implement XP. But scrum took a slightly different path. It broke away from XP and became a looser framework that you could use with any product. XP is still only focused on software development. That means if you're an agile software development team, you should probably consider using many of the XP…

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