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XTremeTeam
Do you have an Extreme Team?
If so, then you most likely are looking for a way to let that team focus on creating and developing powerful applications. XTremeTeam provides a simplified management system based on the Extreme Programming (XP) practice. XTremeTeam can simplify the management of the stories, requirements, tasks and tests needed for the customer to define and the programmers to develop. Your team may have already made the switch to XP, defined a process using the concepts of XP, or is just looking to simplify your process but maintain the ability to track the details.
How does your Extreme Team manage the XP process?
Extreme programming can be executed with the use of index cards and lots of communication as the XP experts have documented, and that is the way XScalable started. However, sometimes that simplified system just does not work well for your situation.
Maybe your trying to scale the XP process to a signficant number of members.
It could be due to outsourcing or your customers or developers are offsite.
Maybe there is a significant real-time reporting or documentation requirement needed by the customer.
Maybe the team is learning XP and wants an experienced tracker to review their work remotely.
It could be that the customer is nervous about XP and needs something concrete to hang on to.
Maybe you want to estimate better by drawing on the history of completed stories in previous projects.
That is why XScalable created XTremeTeam. XScalable needed a nimble process to facilitate our XTreme Product Development (XPD) initiative. We recognized Extreme Programming as the right process for the product teams in our corporation, but felt that we needed a more versatile and persistent model to realize our dream. So XTremeTeam was developed to simplify the process even more, but also provide valuable new features:
Release and Iteration Cycle Management. Prioritization by business value and risk to deliver the best product features first. Project velocity limit checks to ensure the right amount of time is reserved for the tasks to get done.
Internet connectivity to the XP process. Customers anywhere, Testing teams anywhere, programmer access anywhere.
Extensive real-time reporting for valuable internal or external feedback.
Role-based security for controlled access to the appropriate data and features.
Concurrent multi-project management to simplify multitasked developers.
Automated calculations of Project and Individual velocities.
Management of acceptance tests for stories and unit tests for tasks.
Free your team from the management of data associated with the extreme programming process, but at the same time make this information available to all members of your team, regardless of location. Save a signficant number of hours a week and free yourself from manually generating status reports for your customers. Make your customer comfortable with the XP process that makes your development team an XTremeTeam!