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Is Extreme Programming not for Software Quality Engineering and Software Configuration Management practitioners.
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Is Extreme Programming not for Software Quality Engineering and Software Configuration Management practitioners.
XP is a development discipline that is for customers (in their role as specifiers and their role as investors and their role as testers and acceptors) and for developers. As such, the Quality Engineering and Configuration Management roles are critical to the effort. They have to be assigned and played in a way that is consistent with the mission of the group, the level of criticality of quality, and so on. We'd need to talk in detail about your situation to see just where the XP terminology connects with yours, but your QA functions need to be done in any effective software effort, whether in a separate organization or not. So XP certainly is for software quality engineering and software configuration management, as part of a healthy overall process.
That said, XP is aimed at smaller projects (like yours) and it sounds like yours has a much higher level of QE and CM than is often seen in companies of your size. That should give you a strong leg up in building quality software, and we should strengthen your contribution to quality as we bring XP into the team.
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