Extreme Programming on a two-people team

Hi,

I am trying to find a way to implement extreme-programming on a very -
very - small development team. In fact, we are only two.

After about 3 months of development, we are facing some organisational
problems, and I think it is time to make a kind of bilan, and to look
for ways to improve our development method.

Therefore, I am looking for other experiences of extreme programming in
a two-people team, I looked for it on the web, bud didn't find much
information. The more I found was in a French book from Bénard and co,
"L'eXtreme Programming - Avec deux études de cas" (eXtreme Programming -
with two case studies). They state that the minimal extreme programming
team should have at least 3 members, a customer and a pair of
programmers, which we don't have. Without the customer being physically
involved in the development process, we are more or less able to use the
"programming" techniques of XP, like pair programming, test driven
development... but not the organisational techniques like progressive
specification, planification...

Do you know of better ways to adapt, if possible, the extreme
programming method to a team like mine, or is there any other agile
method that could better meet our needs ? I've heard of XBreed, which is
a bit like XP but without the customer if I have clearly understood, but
didn't find much to read about it.

Regards,
Christophe

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Christophe Franco

Christophe Franco wrote:
>
> Therefore, I am looking for other experiences of extreme programming in
> a two-people team,

Our story appeared in IEEE Software Magazine, June 2003 issue, viz,

http://csdl.computer.org/comp/mags/...03/s3030abs.htm

and here's Jeff Sutherland's take on it:

http://jeffsutherland.org/scrum/200...240570560876450

The original conference paper is available for free as,

http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/lt...002-xpc-waw.pdf

Regards,
--
Bil Kleb, Hampton, Virginia

Christophe,

> The more I found was in a French book from Bénard and co,
> "L'eXtreme Programming - Avec deux études de cas" (eXtreme Programming -
> with two case studies).

You might also be interested in the French mailing list:
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/xp-france/

Most of the book's authors hang out there.

How come you don't have a customer ? Is there one, but who can't be
present with the team, or are you your own customers (entrepreneurs, in
other words) ? Or some other situation ?

Laurent
http://bossavit.com/thoughts/