Kent Beck

Extreme Programming, Twenty Years Later

Extreme Programming introduced a contrary set of values, principles, and practices to the software engineering world. Twenty years later, some of the material is still state-of-the-art, some is passe', and some would still be, if embraced, shocking and revolutionary. This talk reviewed what I got right, what I got wrong, and what I’m still working on.

Extreme Programming, 20 years later by Kent Beck from Institut Lean France

Biography Kent Beck has been a programmer coach at Facebook for four years. He is the author of seven books, including Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. He pioneered patterns for software development, test-driven development, and the xUnit family of testing frameworks. His current interests are software design and quantitative studies of software engineering. When not programming he raises goats and makes cheese on his farm in Oregon. Follow Kent on Twitter.