山田＠メタボリックスです。
先日の3/6は、XPの5才のお誕生日だったのだそうです。
おめでとう!
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From: "Don Wells" <Don@....org>
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Happy Birthday Extreme Programming!
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:24:24 -0500
Message-ID: <983uv5$as0$1@....net>
It was on this day 5 years ago that Kent Beck walked into a conference room
in an old Chrysler building and asked us to do the rain storm team building
thing. It was a bit of a west coast kind of thing to do, but we all did it
anyway. Then Kent began to explain to us how he wanted this project to be
different than other projects. We had started the rewrite of the rewrite of
the Chrysler payroll system.
The project was supposed to have a great impact on the software world. It
was supposed to prove that object oriented languages could be used for
applications previously thought of as Cobol on a main frame only. In
retrospect, of course, we didn't show that at all. That would be for some
other project to prove. What we did show instead was that software projects
didn't have to have enormous and complex methodologies to be productive.
Don Wells
P.S. Go to the XP Universe conference! www.xpuniverse.com