The Bold, New Extreme Programming Experiment Now in its Ninth Year

Abstract

Agile success and failure stories are now plentiful and much can be learned from these experiences. Many examples cover a short duration. Our team formed over eight years ago and the core group is still together. Of the initial eight developers on the team, six remain on the team and the other two remain with the company. In our ninth year, the team and product have grown and continued to succeed working in one growing source code base. What have been the growing pains? Are we still Agile? What has changed along the way? This paper discusses some of the issues we faced and decisions made as this Agile team grew and evolved.