Ron Jeffries (born December 26, 1939) is one of the three founders of the
Extreme Programming
Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development,"Human Centred Technology Workshop 2006 ", 2006, ...
(XP)
software development methodology
In software engineering, a software development process or software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process of planning and managing software development. It typically involves dividing software development work into smaller, parallel, or s ...
circa 1996, along with
Kent Beck and
Ward Cunningham. He was from 1996, an XP coach on the
Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System project, which was where XP was invented. He is an author of ''Extreme Programming Installed'', the second book published about XP. He has also written ''Extreme Programming Adventures in C#''. He is one of the 17 original signatories of the
Agile Manifesto.In 2018, Jeffries advocated for abandoning what he termed “Dark Agile,” encouraging developers to return to the original values and mindset of Agile.
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Extreme programming
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