• DocumentCode
    3451879
  • Title

    Social behaviors on XP and non-XP teams: a comparative study

  • Author

    Chong, Jan

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Manage. Sci. & Eng., Stanford Univ., Standford, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    24-29 July 2005
  • Firstpage
    39
  • Lastpage
    48
  • Abstract
    This is an ethnographic study of two software development teams within the same organization, one which utilizes the Extreme Programming (XP) methodology and one which does not. This study compares the work routines and work practices of the software developers on the XP team and the non-XP team. Observed behavior suggests that certain features of the XP methodology lead to greater uniformity in work routine and work practice across individual team members. The data also suggest that the XP methodology makes awareness development and maintenance less effortful on a software development team.
  • Keywords
    social aspects of automation; software engineering; ethnographic study; extreme programming; social behavior; software development team; Buildings; Engineering management; Organizing; Product development; Programming; Silicon; Software development management;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Agile Conference, 2005. Proceedings
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2487-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ADC.2005.40
  • Filename
    1609803