Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 02:54:26 01/14/03
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On January 13, 2003 at 10:44:15, Graham Laight wrote: >In so many jobs, two people working as a team are worth far more than the sum of >two individuals working on their own. In fact, partners (who get on well) tend >to run rings around their solo counterparts. It always amazes me that XP (to use the former, now dying, acronym ;) has been worked up into a huge industry. It is obvious and I'd been doing things like it for years before someone produced a 'philosophy' :) Or perhaps, in the particular situation in which it is used, it is not obvious; in my experience too many people in the IT industry treat a task as though it were some sort of examination, keeping everything to themselves, not asking for help and hiding information. I suppose that Open Source and XP are two sides of the same coin, breaking this counterproductive behaviour down. (Although, as you point out elsewhere, it is not applicable where one person has a vested interest in keeping information within that one person. Fortunately, there are few commercial situations where that is a sensible approach). Alastair
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