This week we look at Chapter 10, The Whole XP Team from Extreme Programming Explained 2nd Edition by Kent Beck (Amazon).

I discuss:

• Conway's Law and the Inverse Conway Maneuver
• The roles on an XP Team
• The two metrics Beck uses to measure the health of an XP Team

We'll dive into all this and more Thursday, July 15th at 7 pm eastern on Twitch. You can join by going to bookclub.dev/live.

Also if you are interested in more deep dives into concepts like Conway's Law and the Inverse Conway Maneuver drop me a line [email protected].

Conway's Law: Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.

This comes from Mel Conway's 1967 paper "How Do Committees Invent?"

Roles on an XP Team

• Testers
• Interaction Designers
• Architects
• Project Managers
• Product Managers
• Executives
• Technical Writers
• Users
• Programmers
• Human Resources

Two Metrics for XP Team health

• The defect rate
• Length of time from idea to it generating revenue

Resources

• Extreme Programming Explained 2nd Edition (Amazon)
• How Do Committees Invent?
• Inverse Conway Maneuver
• The Unicorn Project (Amazon)
• The Phoenix Project (Amazon)