Title: Extreme Programming Installed
Authors: Ron Jeffries, Ann Anderson, Chet Hendrickson
Summary:
In the 16th chapter the author briefly recaps some of things you should and should not do in XP programming. The summary of which is that your program should be well designed, well crafted, flexible, documented, tested, and meet requirements. In the 17th chapter the author once again discusses the fact that experience greatly improves how well people estimate. In the 18th chapter the author discusses the important things that should be tracked. These are resources, scope, quality, and time. The author demonstrates various graphs that can be used to track or report. The author closes with the wisdom that even though we sometimes feel like we should be recording other information, it is rarely helpful to the actual project and should therefore be avoided.
Discussion:
While I do believe that this may be the most relevant and important book we have read this semester, I am a little disappointing at how much of the later chapters seem to be a rehashing of the earlier ones. Chapters 16 and 17 felt like the exact same thing I read at the beginning of the book. Fortunately, chapter 18 did have some solid new information and was very helpful.
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