I have never used XP in real life, since most of the projects I have worked with have been either been waterfall or lacked an active customer input in the XP sense.
However, I have read a few XP books. The authors normally stress that XP can not be applied to all kinds of projects. One such kind is certainly life critical applications.
In 'Agile Software Development', Alistair Cockburn states that all agile methodlogies should be applied with extreme care if at all when it comes to life critical applications.
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I have never used XP in real life, since most of the projects I have worked with have been either been waterfall or lacked an active customer input in the XP sense.
However, I have read a few XP books. The authors normally stress that XP can not be applied to all kinds of projects. One such kind is certainly life critical applications.
In 'Agile Software Development', Alistair Cockburn states that all agile methodlogies should be applied with extreme care if at all when it comes to life critical applications.