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This report presents an experiment comparing two lightweight methodologies. The objective of the experiment was to assess extreme programming seen as a design-less process and an agile methodology based on design. The experiment ran in a real environment. Twenty teams produced 20 systems, from scratch to the final product, in a period of one semester. They attended 4 clients. The factors of the experiment were time, quality and size. The systems written by extreme programming teams were slightly better than “agile design-based” teams. This findings show that a mature/improved version of extreme programming should be much more successful.
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Macias, F., Holcombe, M., Gheorghe, M. (2003). Design-led & Design-less: One Experiment and Two Approaches. In: Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44870-5_60
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