Olivier,
Thanks for this contribution - it is indeed thought provoking, and a
magnificent achievement.
A few questions:
- Did you try doing any "pair analysis"?
- Did the work schedule for analysts (i.e., estimated number of stories per XA
iteration)
explicitly account for time to be spent as XP Customers?
- How did you assure logical consistency among the Outcome Stories produced by
the XA
team (i.e., was there the equivalent of collective ownership of the Outcome
Stories)?
- Did pushback/questions from the XP team ever result in XA rework on Outcome
Stories?
- Did the XP team misunderstand any requirements due to not working directly
with real
customers and users?
Thanks,
Steven Gordon
http://sf.asu.edu/
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From: Olivier Lafontan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 12/3/2004 4:23 AM
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Subject: [XP] A Plug-in to XP: XA (eXtreme Analysis) >> case study
presentation
Hi everyone,
I just joined the group after I was recently advised to present some
of my material to this audience.
Hope you'll find this of interest and that we can get a discussion
going on the subject of "eXtreme Analysis".
XP and other agile approaches really focus on allowing organisations
to re-organise and re-align their capability to deliver... this
implies that our customer actually knows what they want.
At the begining of the year, I had to manage a project where no
matter how much of the XP practices we could implement, the project
was going to deliver virtually no business value (but a lot of IT
changes...).
That makes me say that "XP is really good at delivering what is in
the story pot. If no value is in the story pot, XP will be really
good at delivering no value."
Being lucky enough to work for an organisation that allows me to
experiment, I have tried a new approach to /save/ this project and
protect the outcome.
This project now being finished, I have consolidated all this
experience in a Case Study presentation. I presented this material
at XP Day London last month.
The presentation can be found at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/files/eXtreme%
20Analysis/ , which is in the file section of this group, under a
new folder called eXtreme Analysis.
Thanks
Olivier
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