Extreme Adoption Experiences of a B2B Start-up

Abstract

This chapter discusses our experiences adopting Extreme Programming (XP). Escrow.com was in a unique position to compare nearly identical projects conducted under both XP and non-XP processes. By collecting a small set of simple metrics, we are able to measure the relative success of the adoption effort. As we’ll see, even under difficult circumstances, this adoption effort produced tangible improvements over the prior project.