eXtreme Programming/XP

• Extreme Programming, or XP to most aficionados, was developed by Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries.


• XP preaches the values of community, simplicity, feedback and courage.


• Important aspects of XP are its contribution to altering the view of the cost of change and its emphasis on technical excellence through refactoring and test-first development.
• XP provides a system of dynamic practices, whose integrity as a holistic unit has been proven.


• XP has clearly garnered the most interest of any of the Agile approaches.


• Its not a cult, but its not far off !!