Extreme Process Management

The attempt to move the ExtremeProgramming methodology to being used for more processes than programming.

I'm not sure I understand the distinction. What is "process management?"

Perhaps I used the wrong phrase. What I'm trying to get at is taking ExtremeProgramming, and applying it to engineering a manufactoring line, or other things like that. Where I work, they are trying to do something similar, except they are RUP fans.

Two examples- Our contractor, CliffWoodruff?, works pretty extreme. "How can you tell how high the ceilings should be if the walls aren't in place?"

ChristopherAlexander writes about this kind of architecture in TheTimelessWayOfBuilding.

My FatherInLaw?, ValAndres?, ran a project to retrofit two psychiatric wards for a prison. He had been reading ExtremeProgrammingExplained, so even though he had a year to get them both open, he pared the scope until he could open the first one in one month, and the second one month later. Then they began refining the wards, opening access to outside exercise space, etc. -- KentBeck

Way cool. -- AlistairCockburn