Hello Ágnes: > I live in Hungary (Middle-Europe) and working in an IT Company. My work is to > managing our processes and rising the quality.
OK. > There was a guy, who said, that they had tried it. It was working maybe for 3 > moths, and they have had to finixh XP because a programmer had left the > company, and they couldn't find anyone for him place. > He said, it was a very good period in their life. But it's finished. There is no real reason why XP should stop when a programmer leaves. Maybe he was the only one to care, or to believe in XP? > Could yousay me, why doesn't XP work in some places? Does it depend on > country or culture? That's a good question. Personally, I think that 'culture' does make a difference: - to the way XP should be presented and explained - to how easily XP will be adopted However, that it true also of 'corporate' culture... In other words, there could be a great difference between two companies in New York, and I am sure you would find companies very much like yours in many cities around the world. I certainly believe XP can benefit software development organisations anywhere in the world. It may be more or less difficult to convince them, and to make the transition. > If we don't have any companies with XP, how can I discover it, and assure my > and other companies? If I say: "I read it..." -- it's not authentic enough. You are right. You could attend one of several conferences (including in Europe). However, if you are responsible for process management and quality, I think you should just encourage programmers (and architects, analysts, project leaders, whatever roles you have that are involved in developing software) to find out about XP. Buy them copies of books, send /them/ to the conferences as well... And let them feel "allowed to try". Regards, Dominic Williams http://dominicwilliams.net ---- To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
