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Avery Dennison Director of Development Company email: mailto:glenn.goldstein@averydennison.com Personal email: mailto:gsgoldstein@gmail.comNow over 5 years ago, I spent over a year at iBelong/Redwood/Verilytics introducing, installing, and running the XP process as part of my tenure as the Director of Development. We completed over 20 iterations and the project was very successful in a number of ways. We didn't find all aspects of XP useful and attempted to integrate offshore development into the mix with some success.
I was interested in examining other agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum) in addition to XP but have not had the opportunity. Overall I felt that XP was intriguing but ultimately could only be successful in a limited number of situations where you had the right mix of project, sponsor, and especially developers. Recently there is interest in using agile processes here at Avery. I will provide updates if anything develops along these lines.
Links of interest:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingProjects