From Cards to Code: How Extreme Programming Re-Embodies Programming as a Collective Practice

dc.contributor.authorMacKenzie, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorMonk, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-06T09:06:55Z
dc.date.available2020-06-06T09:06:55Z
dc.date.issued38047
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses Extreme Programming (XP), a relatively new and increasingly popular ‘user-centred’ software design approach. Extreme Programming proposes that collaborative software development should be centred on the practices of programming. That proposal contrasts strongly with more heavily instrumented, formalised and centrally managed software engineering methodologies. The paper maps the interactions of an Extreme Programming team involved in building a commercial organisational knowledge management system. Using ethnographic techniques, it analyses how this particular style of software development developed in a given locality, and how it uniquely hybridised documents, conversations, software tools and office layout in that locality. It examines some of the many artifices, devices, techniques and talk that come together as a complicated contemporary software system is produced. It argues that XP's emphasis on programming as the core activity and governing metaphor can only be understood in relation to competing overtly formal software engineering approaches and the organisational framing of software development. XP, it suggests, gains traction by re-embodying the habits of programming as a collective practice.de
dc.identifier.doi10.1023/B:COSU.0000014873.27735.10
dc.identifier.pissn1573-7551
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1023/B:COSU.0000014873.27735.10
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3646
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 13, No. 1
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
dc.subjectco-ordination work
dc.subjectethnography
dc.subjectextreme programming
dc.subjectsoftware development techniques
dc.subjectuser-centred design
dc.titleFrom Cards to Code: How Extreme Programming Re-Embodies Programming as a Collective Practicede
dc.typeText/Journal Article
gi.citation.endPage117
gi.citation.startPage91

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