LaurentBossavit
SpeakingForMyself and PayingMyOwnWay to XpTwoThousandAndTwo ;)
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This story starts with a phrase borrowed from
RonJeffries to suggest
one disappointment that may await the XP advocate :
"Fallen among thorns".
Quoting Ron,
"XP is a discipline of cooperation, feedback, discovery, and learning. Companies that don't get that, don't get XP. In such a company, often XP will fall among these thorns and be choked out." (He wasn't as gloomy as this excerpt makes him out to be. I selected for shock value.)
Not all organizational soil will be hospitable to the seeds of ideas
that XP sows.
We may either seek fertile soil to plant the seeds; or accept the soil
we are given, and work that soil as best we can. In this exchange I will
be concerned with the latter situation, which for various reasons I
chose for myself over the past year or so.
I will attempt to extract the lucky breaks and the salient decisions from
my experiences over these dozen-odd months, with particular attention to
one aspect that has emerged to give them structure : my quest for a "larger
intellectual context" to XP, which eventually gave rise to
BookShelved.
This will take us through the country of "
ChangeArtistry", over
TheFifthDiscipline and like as not end up in even stranger lands.
Or such, at any rate, is what I hope to get from this workshop.