RE: XP defined?

Here is my answer from the first chapter:

XP is giving up old, ineffective technical and social habits in favor of
new ones.
XP is fully appreciating yourself for total effort today.
XP is striving to do better tomorrow.
XP is evaluating yourself by your contribution to the team's shared
goals.
XP is asking to get some of your human needs met through software
development.

Kent Beck
Three Rivers Institute

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Boucher [mailto:bonsai1966-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:28 AM
> To: xpbookdiscussiongroup-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xpe2e] XP defined?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> One of my impressions was that XP is _something_ consisting 
> of  4 values, 12ish practices,  and 15 principles. 
> 
> What that something is, I've never really understood.
> 
> If I'm understanding things, the new book describes the same 
> XP but the more I read what you're saying here and on the XP 
> Yahoo forum the more I realize that I have no idea what "xp" 
> really is. I don't know if it's a methodology, a philosophy, 
> or what it is. The practices seem to have changed, as well as 
> the principles, but the _something_, 
> whatever it is, is still the same.
> 
> So, what is XP? What is that unchanging _something_?



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