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<B><FONT face="Gill Sans"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT size="+2">Should you use XP?</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></TD>
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<LI><B><FONT face="Gill Sans"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT size="+1">Does your current methodology work for you?<BR>
</B></FONT></FONT></FONT><UL><LI><B><FONT face="Gill Sans"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT size="+0">Even if no - there are agile methodologies besides XP (DSDM, Crystal, dX, Scrum, Coad, ....)<BR>
</B></FONT></FONT></FONT></UL><LI><B><FONT face="Gill Sans"><FONT color="#000000"><FONT size="+1">Is your development team small enough?<BR>
<LI>Is your development team co-located?<BR>
<LI>Are you willing to change practices?<BR>
<LI>Is XP's high discipline appropriate for your environment?<BR>
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<UL><LI>Alistair Cockburn believes the discipline to continue to follow the XP practices is not present in many teams. The Crystal series of methodologies is 'the least disciplined set of methodologies that could still succeed'. They trade productivity for ease of execution.
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