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It is generally prescribed that XP be adopted in full. However, a review of existing XP adoption case studies suggests that full adoption is exceptional; most companies adopt XP only partially and they adapt XP to fit existing practices and philosophies. Drawing on interviews with industry participants, the paper recommends using XP as a ‘tool kit’ of techniques and philosophies.
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Aveling, B. (2004). XP Lite Considered Harmful?. In: Eckstein, J., Baumeister, H. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24853-8_11
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