Alrite, this time I am going to discuss Scrum and eXtreme Programming (XP). I would like to discuss Scrum and XP this time because I often get a question “When should I use Scrum or XP?”.

In a raging discussion on the Extreme Programming group Michael James started a discussion on whether Scrum is alienating Extreme Programming folks.

Extreme Programming and Scrum are very powerful methodologies, but if you don’t keep testing and quality at the heart of the development process, the team will not reach its optimal performance.

One current fad goes under the general name of “ Agile methods;” some of its variants are extreme programming, the SCRUM methodology and Alastair Cockburn’s Crystal Clear Methodology.

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