Extreme Programming Sales Kit

An unfortunate fact is that some people just don't get it, and other people haven't even heard of it. Extreme Programming needs to be sold to these people, and to anyone else who isn't doing it. The sales kit is a collection of material that can be used to help you to help other people to understand XP.

The idea was sparked by CharliePoole on the XP eGroup.

Donated material needs to be categorized so that people can find things appropriate to their audience. I propose two axis of categorization, by company, and by job.

Job

1. Developer
2. Manager
3. CEO
4. Customer

Company

1. Has No process
   1. And they know it
   2. But they think they do
2. Has a process
   1. And it fails
   2. And it succeeds

Each contributor can add a simple cartesian (or set of cartesians) to their contribution's description of the form j?c? where j indicates the job axis, and c indicates the company axis. So, you may add (j1c1.2) to a donated paper, indicating that this paper is useful for Dilbert ;-) --BryanDollery

Papers

Migrating to XP - BryanDollery

• http://www.chaosengineers.co.nz/papers/migrating to xp.html
  • link corrected - Pearl
    • BrokenLink 2007-10-29

This paper offers patterns for selling XP (j2c*)

Presentations

Articles