Red Squirrel Reflections Dave Hoover explores the psychology of software development

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The Beginning
Friday, October 25, 2002

After an excellent meeting with Wyatt, I am beginning the preparation for my XP presentation in earnest. My initial idea was to give a concise overview of the XP process, with a more in-depth description of a few foundational practices that we could implement immediately: test-driven development, pair programming, refactoring, coding standards, and iterative development. But after meeting with Wyatt, I have a different direction.

It's all about providing business value. My goal for this presentation should be to convince my audience that I want to increase productivity, increase quality and reduce costs, and that I want that passionately. I need to show a high level description of how agile thinking informs the software development process with regard to iterative development and customer collaboration.

Only after I have driven home the business value will the how of it come to the surface: the practices.

It was an excellent meeting with Wyatt, I learned a lot. I look forward to our next one.

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