Open Xp Process

The WikiConsortium wants to develop a WikiPortal, and of course it wants to go XP. So, XP boffins, here's the biggest ExtremeProgrammingChallenge of your lives: how can we use XP to do this when the only collaborative space we share is a public CVS server and wiki itself?


I'd like to think I'm in a positive frame of mind today. The notion of a fully-distributed XP project with no customer is pressing my limits, however. In Chapter 25 Verse 16, Beck says: "What doesn't work for sure? If you have programmers on two floors, forget it." OTOH, some folks at the OOPSLA XP workshop reported fair success with remote pair programming. It sounds like so far you guys aren't even thinking of doing that much pairing.

The core practices:

I'm getting more positive. It should be an interesting experiment.

What is the progress, if any in this challenge? -- 20041029


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