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We have successfully run three Extreme Programming Projects with Software Engineering students over the last two years. We introduce five major challenges we encountered when running the projects with year 2 and 3 students, and discuss our (partial) solutions within the context of these projects.
We show that XP practices need some adjustment for an educational setting and that the skills required for XP need to be taught before attempting an XP project.
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Mugridge, R., MacDonald, B., Roop, P., Tempero, E. (2003). Five Challenges in Teaching XP. In: Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44870-5_62
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