Embracing Change: An XP Experience Report

Andrew M. Fuqua and John M. Hammer

Abstract 
The Common Policy Editor (CPE) project experienced change typical of many 
software development projects: the programmers, coach, managers, customers 
and requirements changed; the project was stopped and restarted; and the 
team was redirected to work on additional projects simultaneously. Extreme 
Programming (XP) helps teams handle change. This experience report 
discusses the changes this team encountered, explains how XP helped and 
cites several lessons learned.