Visual Studio Team System: Better Software Development for Agile Teams

List of Extreme Programming Practices

The second edition of Kent Beck’s book, Extreme Programming Explained,¹ defines 24 practices that an Agile team should apply to its work. You can read our interpretation of these practices in this book, as outlined in the following table:

Note

We do not cover the Negotiated Scope Contract, Pay-per-Use, and Shrinking Teams practices in this book, but you can find information about them on the book’s Web site.

1 [XPE2] Beck, Kent, with Cynthia Andres. Extreme Programming Explained, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, ...