Extreme Programming: My Russian Experience and Thoughts About Its Future
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By Alexey Smirnov, Software Engineer, Novosoft, 2003
When I first hear about Extreme Programming (XP), honestly, I think, "Sounds crazy, maybe some new American hype." But in our company in Novosibirsk, my manager says, "Let’s try! If we fail, we learn something anyway."
So, our team starts real XP experiment.