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Friday, August 31, 2007

Managing the incompleteness of communications

It was a draft from 11/15/06, got buried. Dig it out today ...
From Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game, Second Edition

People who are learning and mastering new skills pass through three quite different stages of behavior: following, detaching, and fluent.

Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained (Beck 2000), described the use of Extreme Programming (XP) using similar levels. Asked about XP and the five levels of the Software Engineering Institute's "Capability Maturity Model," he replied with XP's three levels of maturity:

1. Do everything as written.
2. After having done that, experiment with variations in the rules.
3. Eventually, don't care if you are doing XP or not.

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