The following timeline shows a brief history of Extreme Programming (XP):
The 1990s was the beginning of another paradigm shift for the software industry as Object-Oriented Programming began to replace Structured Programming. As a way to explore how they would use this new approach, the Chrysler motor company decided to build their payroll system in Smalltalk, an OO programming language.
Initially invited to performance-tune the system because of his knowledge of Smalltalk, Kent Beck was asked to lead their software team in 1996. In Kent's potted history of XP, he says that, before joining Chrysler, he had asked teams to do things ...
