正如我们在eAD的若干期中探究的那样，当今信息技术中最迫切的两个问题是: How do we deliver functionality to business clients quickly?
如何能快速地向商业用户交付功能？
How do we keep up with near-continuous change?
如何才能跟上近乎连续的变化?
Change is changing. Not only does the pace of change continue to accelerate, but, as the September issue of eAD pointed out, organizations are having to deal with different types of change -- disruptive change and punctuated equilibrium. Disruptive technologies, like personal computers in the early 1980s, impact an industry (in the case of PCs, several related industries), while a punctuated equilibrium - a massive intervention into an ecosystem or an economy -- impacts a very large number of species, or companies. The Internet, which has become the backbone for e-commerce and e-business, has disrupted a wide range of industries -- more a punctuated equilibrium than a disruption.
变化本身也在不断地变化中。不仅仅是变化的速度在不断地提高，而且，如eAD的10月中所指出的， 组织正在不得不应付各种类型的变化-- 剧变与不断被打破的平衡。 产生剧变的技术，象在80年代早期的个人计算机，冲击了一个工业(PC机以及若干相关的工业)而不时打断的平衡--一个对生态系统或者对整个经济产生巨大影响的介入--则 影响了无数的物种，或者说，公司。已经成为电子商务支柱的Internet, 就已使大范围的行业产生剧变--更多的是打断的平衡而不仅仅是一次剧变。
When whole business models are changing, when time-to-market becomes the mantra of companies, when flexibility and interconnectedness are demanded from even the most staid organization, it is then that we must examine every aspect of how business is managed, customers are delighted, and products are developed.
当整个商业模式正在发生变化，当"时间意味着市场"正成为公司的咒语，当适应性与互连性正在成为甚至是最呆板的组织的需要的时候，我们将有必要检查以下的每一个方面:商业是如何管理的，客户为什么而感到高兴，以及产品是如何开发的。
The Extreme Programming movement has been a subset of the object-oriented (OO) programming community for several years, but has recently attracted more attention, especially with the recent release of Kent Beck's new book Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change . Don't be put off by the somewhat "in-your- face" moniker of Extreme Programming (XP to practitioners). Although Beck doesn't claim that practices such as pair programming and incremental planning originated with XP, there are some very interesting, and I think important, concepts articulated by XP. There's a lot of talk today about change, but XP has some pretty good ideas about how to actually do it. Hence the subtitle, Embrace Change .
终极编程(Extreme Programming )运动成为面向对象编程这个团体的一部分已经有数年了， 但是直到最近才引起了越来越多的注意，特别是最近Kent Beck的《终极编程 释义:拥抱变化》(Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change)一书的出版。千万不要因为终极编程(业内人简称为XP)这一称呼而对它产生反感。 尽管Beck没有说象配对编程(pair programming)，增量式计划(incremental planning)之类的来源 于XP,但是仍然有一些非常有趣的，我认为也是很重要的概念可以借用XP来表达。现有有许多关于变化的讨论， 但是XP却有许多如何实际去做的非常好的想法。也就是这个副标题:拥抱变化。
There is a tendency, particularly by rigorous methodologists, to dismiss anything less ponderous than the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) or maybe the International Organization for Standardization's standards, as hacking. The connotation: hacking promotes doing rather than thinking and therefore results in low quality. This is an easy way to dismiss practices that conflict with one's own assumptions about the world.
有一种趋势，特别在那些严格的方法论者中，希望剔除那些与"能力 成熟度模型"(Capability Maturity Model CMM)或者是国际标准化组织的标准相比不那么笨重的方法，比如象hacking.注释: hacking推崇行动而不是思考从而导致了较低的质量。 剔除与某人关于这个世界的假设相冲突的实践，这倒不失为一种简单的方法。
Looked at another way, XP may be a potential piece of a puzzle I've been writing about over the past 18 months. Turbulent times give rise to new problems that, in turn, give rise to new practices -- new practices that often fly in the face of conventional wisdom but survive because they are better adapted to the new reality. There are at least four practices I would assign to this category:
从另一个角度来看XP，它倒可能是一个难题的某个潜在的部分，这个一个我在过去18个月中一直都在写的内容。混乱 的时期产生新的问题，而后者又导致了新的实践--新的实践公然违抗 传统的知识，但却得以幸存下来是因为它们能更好地适应这个新的现实世界。至少有四种实践方式我觉得是属于这个范畴的:
XP -- eAD本期的焦点
Lean development -- discussed in the November 1998 issue of eAD
轻量级的开发(Lean development)--已经在eAD 1998 11月中讨论
Crystal Light methods -- mentioned in the November 1999 issue of eAD and further discussed in this issue
轻量级的Crystal方法(Crystal Light methods)--曾在eAD 1999年11月提到，在本期中将做进一步的讨论
Adaptive software development -- described in the August 1998 issue of eAD (then called Application Development Strategies -- ADS )
自适应软件开发(Adaptive software development)--在eAD1998年8月中描述过(当时叫做应用开发策略Application Development Strategies -- ADS)
Although there are differences in each of these practices, there are also similarities: they each describe variations from the conventional wisdom about how to approach software development. Whereas lean and adaptive development practices target strategic and project management, XP brings its differing world view to the realm of the developer and tester.
尽管这些实践中存在着差异，但是它们中也有相似的地方:它们都描述了与传统软件开发不同的方法。 虽然轻量级的开发与自适应开发针对的是战略与项目管理的，但是XP却用不同的视角将开发方法带入了程序员与测试员的领域。
Much of XP is derived from good practices that have been around for a long time. "None of the ideas in XP are new. Most are as old as programming," Beck offers to readers in the preface to his book. I might differ with Beck in one respect: although the practices XP uses aren't new, the conceptual foundation and how they are melded together greatly enhance these "older" practices. I think there are four critical ideas to take away from XP (in addition to a number of other good ideas):
XP中许多部分其实都来自于业已存在的那些优秀的开发实践。"XP中没有一个想法是全新的。大多数想法产生的时间实际上和编程一样古老"Beck在他书中的前言中这样说道。但是我在某一个方面考虑的也许与Beck有所不同： 尽管XP所用的实践方式不是全新的，但是概念的建立以及它们如何融合在一起极大地增强了 这些"老"的实践。我想(除了许多其它的好思想外，还)可以从XP中提炼出四个关键的思想:
变化的成本
Refactoring
重构
Collaboration
协作
Simplicity
简单化
But first, I discuss some XP basics: the dozen practices that define XP.
但是首先，我们来讨论XP的基础:那十二个用于XP的实践方式。
XP－基础
I must admit that one thing I like about XP's principal figures is their lack of pretension. XP proponents are careful to articulate where they think XP is appropriate and where it is not. While practitioners like Beck and Ron Jeffries may envision that XP has wider applicability, they are generally circumspect about their claims. For example, both are clear about XP's applicability to small (less than 10 people), co-located teams (with which they have direct experience); they don't try to convince people that the practices will work for teams of 200.
我必须承认一件事情，就是我喜欢XP的原因应该是它没有其他的那些花哨的东西。支持XP的人们总是会向你指出XP适合的地方以及他的某些局限性。而XP的实践者Beck以及Ron Jeffties却相信XP会有更广泛的应用前景。他们通常对于自己的要求都是很谨慎的。例如：小的（小于10人），公司局部（他们有直接的经验）两者对于XP的适应性都是很清楚的；他们并没有试图让人们相信XP可以适用于一个200人的团队。
工程
The most prominent XP project reported on to date is the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation system (the C3 project) that was initiated in the mid-1990s and converted to an XP project in 1997. Jeffries, one of the "Three Extremoes" (with Beck and Ward Cunningham), and I spent several hours talking about the C3 project and other XP issues at the recent Miller Freeman Software Developer conference in Washington, DC, USA.
最为著名的XP项目是克莱斯勒综合补偿系统（称为C3工程），它在上个世纪的90年代中期开始，到1997演变为XP。Jeffries,是"终极编程三人组"之一（另外两个是Beck同Ward Cunningham） 。我在华盛顿特区同自由软件人谈论了有关C3的以及其他与XP项目有关的东西。
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Originally, the C3 project was conceived as an OO programming project, specifically using Smalltalk. Beck, a well-known Smalltalk expert, was called in to consult on Smalltalk performance optimization, and the project was transformed into a pilot of OO (XP) practices after the original project was deemed unreclaimable. Beck brought in Jeffries to assist on a more full-time basis, and Jeffries worked with the C3 team until spring 1999. The initial requirements were to handle the monthly payroll of some 10,000 salaried employees. The system consists of approximately 2,000 classes and 30,000 methods and was ready within a reasonable tolerance period of the planned schedule.
最初，C3是一个基于OO（面向对象技术）的开发项目，尤其是它采用Smaltalk语言进行开发。（Smaltalk ：Xerox公司开发的一种高级程序设计语言,它支持和鼠标合用的选项屏驱动式应用程序,有助于建立便于使用的计算机程序。）作为著名的Smalltalk专家，Beck被邀请来讨论有关SmalTalk性能优化的问题，并且在原项目被认为不可救要的时候将其变为一个采用面向对象OO（XP）方法的试验性项目。Beck并且带来了Jeffries用于帮助那些基本的东西，Jeffries在C3组一直干到1999年的春天。最开始的需求是要做一个对约10，000个雇员每月薪水发放进行管理的系统。这个系统由大约2，000个类以及30，000个方法构成，并且在计划方面提供有合理的容忍度
As we talked, I asked Jeffries how success on the C3 project translated into XP use on other Chrysler IT projects. His grin told me all I needed to know. I've been involved in enough rapid application development (RAD) projects for large IT organizations over the years to understand why success does not consistently translate into acceptance. There are always at least a hundred very good reasons why success at RAD, or XP, or lean development, or other out-of-the-box approaches doesn't translate into wider use -- but more on this issue later.
正向我们所谈到，我问Jeffries他怎样成功的将C3变为XP并应用到其他的克莱斯勒IT项目。他笑着告诉了我。多年来我为许多大型IT组织开发了不少RAD系统（快速原型开发），因此我知道为什么我们无法将成功的经验运用于其它项目中. 对于RAD, XP, 轻量级的开发以及其它一些未得到广泛应用的方法, 它们成功的原因至少有一百条.
实践
One thing to keep in mind is that XP practices are intended for use with small, co-located teams. They therefore tend toward minimalism, at least as far as artifacts other than code and test cases are concerned. The presentation of XP's practices have both positive and negative aspects. At one level, they sound like rules -- do this, don't do that. Beck explains that the practices are more like guidelines than rules, guidelines that are pliable depending on the situation. However, some, like the "40-hour week," can come off as a little preachy. Jeffries makes the point that the practices also interact, counterbalance, and reinforce each other, such that picking and choosing which to use and which to discard can be tricky.
应记住的一件事情就是我们应倾向于在小型的, 局部的团队中运用XP。除了代码与测试用例外, 尽量减少有些的影响。XP的实践既有正面的表现,也有负面的。在某些方面看来，他们听起来就像一堆规则，要做这个，不要做那个。对此Beck解释道, 与规则相比, XP更像是指导方针，一个灵活的依赖于具体环境的开发方针。但是诸如"每周工作40小时"等看起来可能会感觉续续道道。Jeffries使得实践也会互相作用的，平衡，互相加强。以至于挑选使用的同丢弃的都是棘手的事情。
The planning game. XP's planning approach mirrors that of most iterative RAD approaches to projects. Short, three-week cycles, frequent updates, splitting business and technical priorities, and assigning "stories" (a story defines a particular feature requirement and is displayed in a simple card format) all define XP's approach to planning.
计划的制定： XP中关于制定计划的实现方法中可以反映出大多数迭代式RAD项目的特点。短期的，每三周为一个循环，频繁地更新，按优先级划分任务与技术， 分配stories（一个story定义了一个特殊的功能需求并以一种简单的方式记录在卡片上），所有的这些就是构成了XP中的计划。
Small releases. "Every release should be as small as possible, containing the most valuable business requirements," states Beck. This mirrors two of Tom Gilb's principles of evolutionary delivery from his book Principles of Software Engineering Management : "All large projects are capable of being divided into many useful partial result steps," and "Evolutionary steps should be delivered on the principle of the juiciest one next."
小版本： "每个版本应该尽可能的小，而且包含最有商业价值的需求"，Beck如是说。这也反映了Tom Gilb在他的<软件工程管理原则>书中提到的关于渐进式发布的两点："所有的大的项目都可以被分为局部的, 有用的小的步骤"以及"进化的步骤会传递到下一级。"
Small releases provide the sense of accomplishment that is often missing in long projects as well as more frequent (and more relevant) feedback. However, a development team needs to also consider the difference between "release" and "releasable." The cost of each release -- installation, training, conversions -- needs to be factored into whether or not the product produced at the end of a cycle is actually released to the end user or is simply declared to be in a releasable state.
小型版本的发布意味着具有在大型项目中经常缺少的频繁的反馈的实现.。 然而，一个开发小组当然需要考虑到"发布"同"可发布"的不同。无论是否是最终的版本发布还是一个简单的可发行版本的发布, 都需要付出安装，培训，转化等代价。
Metaphor. XP's use of the terms "metaphor" and "story" take a little wearing in to become comfortable. However, both terms help make the technology more understandable in human terms, especially to clients. At one level, metaphor and architecture are synonyms -- they are both intended to provide a broad view of the project's goal. But architectures often get bogged down in symbols and connections. XP uses "metaphor" in an attempt to define an overall coherent theme to which both developers and business clients can relate. The metaphor describes the broad sweep of the project, while stories are used to describe individual features.
隐喻： 在XP中"隐喻"以及"story"的使用可能会让人有一点不舒服。但是，这些术语的使用可以帮助我们以一种更人性化的方式加以理解，尤其是对客户而言。从某种程度上来说，隐喻同体系结构是同意语――他们都着重于从全局描述一个项目。但是体系结构经常会陷于符号与连接的泥潭。而XP使用"隐喻"定义一个从开发者到商业客户都可联系的全面一致的主题。隐喻用于描述项目全面的面貌，而Story用于描述个别具体的特征。
Simple design. Simple design has two parts. One, design for the functionality that has been defined, not for potential future functionality. Two, create the best design that can deliver that functionality. In other words, don't guess about the future: create the best (simple) design you can today. "If you believe that the future is uncertain, and you believe that you can cheaply change your mind, then putting in functionality on speculation is crazy," writes Beck. "Put in what you need when you need it."
简单的设计： 简单的设计包含两个部分。一，为已定义的功能进行设计，而不是为潜在地未来可能的功能进行设计。二，创建最佳的可以实现功能的设计。换句话说，不用管未来会是怎样，只创建一个目前为止可以实现的最好的设计。"如果你相信未来是不确定的，并且你相信你可以很方便的改变你的主意的话，那么对未来功能的考虑是危险的。"Beck写到。"只有在你真正需要的时候才去做"
In the early 1980s, I published an article in Datamation magazine titled "Synchronizing Data with Reality." The gist of the article was that data quality is a function of use, not capture and storage. Furthermore, I said that data that was not systematically used would rapidly go bad. Data quality is a function of systematic usage, not anticipatory design. Trying to anticipate what data we will need in the future only leads us to design for data that we will probably never use; even the data we did guess correctly on won't be correct anyway. XP's simple design approach mirrors the same concepts. As described later in this article, this doesn't mean that no anticipatory design ever happens; it does mean that the economics of anticipatory design changes dramatically.
在二十世纪八十年代，我发表了一篇有关自动化资料管理的文章"实际的同步数据"文章的意思是说数据的质量是使用功能，不是捕捉与存储。此外，我说数据如果不是很系统的使用便会变坏。数据质量是系统使用的功能，不是可预料的设计。无论预期的对还是错，试着设计一个我们从来都不会用到的数据，最终结果很可能我们一次也不会用到它们。XP的简单设计方法反映了相同的观点。如在本文后来所描述的那样，这并不意味着不需要预测，而是说为预测的内容所做的设计一旦发生变化，其导致的代价是十分巨大的。
Refactoring. If I had to pick one thing that sets XP apart from other approaches, it would be refactoring -- the ongoing redesign of software to improve its responsiveness to change. RAD approaches have often been associated with little or no design; XP should be thought of as continuous design. In times of rapid, constant change, much more attention needs to be focused on refactoring. See the sections "Refactoring" and "Data Refactoring," below.
重构： 如果我不得不找出一个能够将XP和其他方法区别开来的东西那就是重构――不断的软件再设计以改进它对于变化的反应。RAD方法常常很少甚至根本不与设计相关；XP应当被看作持续设计。当变化既快而且频繁的时候，应投入更多的精力于重构之上。参见下面的"重构"和"数据重构"部分。
Testing. XP is full of interesting twists that encourage one to think -- for example, how about "Test and then code"? I've worked with software companies and a few IT organizations in which programmer performance was measured on lines of code delivered and testing was measured on defects found -- neither side was motivated to reduce the number of defects prior to testing. XP uses two types of testing: unit and functional. However, the practice for unit testing involves developing the test for the feature prior to writing the code and further states that the tests should be automated. Once the code is written, it is immediately subjected to the test suite instant feedback.
测试： XP充满发人深思的有趣的难题。例如：什么是"先测试后编码"？我曾经同软件公司和一些IT机构一起工作，在那儿是通过代码的行数来对程序员的绩效加以考核，而测试的绩效则是通过发现的缺陷的数量来考核的。这两种方法都不能鼓励减少测试前产生的缺陷的数量。XP使用两种测试：单元测试和功能测试。单元测试要求在写代码之前就开发出相应功能的测试方法，并并测试应当是自动化的。代码一完成，它就被立即用有关测试集加以测试，从而能立即得到反馈。
The most active discussion group on XP remains the Wiki exchange (XP is a piece of the overall discussion about patterns). One of the discussions centers around a lifecycle of Listen (requirements) Test Code Design. Listen closely to customers while gathering their requirements. Develop test cases. Code the objects (using pair programming). Design (or refactor) as more objects are added to the system. This seemingly convoluted lifecycle begins to make sense only in an environment in which change dominates.
最活跃的XP讨论组仍然是Wiki exchange（XP是关于pattern总体讨论的一部分），其中的一个讨论围绕听取（需求）-> 测试 -> 代码 -> 设计的生命周期。贴近客户聆听并收集他们的需求。开发测试用例（test cases）。完成对象编码（使用配对编程）。当更多对象被加入系统时进行设计（或重构）。这个看起来混乱不堪的生命周期仅仅在经常变化的环境下才有意义。
Pair programming. One of the few software engineering practices that enjoys near-universal acceptance (at least in theory) and has been well measured is software inspections (also referred to as reviews or walkthroughs). At their best, inspections are collaborative interactions that speed learning as much as they uncover defects. One of the lesser-known statistics about inspections is that although they are very cost effective in uncovering defects, they are even more effective at preventing defects in the first place through the team's ongoing learning and incorporation of better programming practices.
配对编程： 软件（还是直接用Inspection为好？）（也称审查或走查）也是被广为接受（至少在理论上）和有效度量的少数软件工程实践之一。在最好情况下，Inspection这种协同交互的检查能够加速学习，同时发现缺陷。一个较少被知道的关于Inspection的统计数据是尽管它在发现缺陷方面非常有效，但通过团队对于好的开发实践持续的学习和协作，可以更好的在第一时间预防缺陷。
One software company client I worked with cited an internal study that showed that the amount of time to isolate defects was 15 hours per defect with testing, 2-3 hours per defect using inspections, and 15 minutes per defect by finding the defect before it got to the inspection. The latter figure arises from the ongoing team learning engendered by regular inspections. Pair programming takes this to the next step -- rather than the incremental learning using inspections, why not continuous learning using pair programming?
一家我工作过的软件公司客户引用一个内部研究结果，表明在测试阶段发现一个缺陷需15小时，在Inspection阶段发现一个缺陷则需2－3小时，而在Inspection之前发现缺陷只需15分钟。后面的数据来自于产生于常规审查的持续的团队学习。配对编程将这个带入下一步――与其用Inspection来递增式学习，为什么不用配对编程来学习呢？
"Pair programming is a dialog between two people trying to simultaneously program and understand how to program better," writes Beck. Having two people sitting in front of the same terminal (one entering code or test cases, one reviewing and thinking) creates a continuous, dynamic interchange. Research conducted by Laurie Williams for her doctoral dissertation at the University of Utah confirm that pair programming's benefits aren't just wishful thinking (see Resources and References ).
"配对编程是两个人试图同时编程和理解如何更好编程的一种对话"，Beck写道。让两个人同时坐在一台终端前面（一个人敲代码或测试用例，一个人审查和思考）产生一种持续的、动态的交流。Williams在犹他大学进行的博士论文研究证明了配对编程不仅仅是一种美好的想法而且确有实效。（参见资源和参考）
Collective ownership. XP defines collective ownership as the practice that anyone on the project team can change any of the code at any time. For many programmers, and certainly for many managers, the prospect of communal code raises concerns, ranging from "I don't want those bozos changing my code" to "Who do I blame when problems arise?" Collective ownership provides another level to the collaboration begun by pair programming.
代码共享： 项目组中的每个人都可以在任何时候修改其他项目成员的代码，这就是XP中所定义的代码共享。。对许多程序员以及经理而言，，共有代码的想法会引起一些疑虑，诸如"我不想让那些笨蛋改我的代码"，"出现问题我应该怪谁？"等等。共享代码从另一个层面提供了对配对编程中协作的支持。
Pair programming encourages two people to work closely together: each drives the other a little harder to excel. Collective ownership encourages the entire team to work more closely together: each individual and each pair strives a little harder to produce high-quality designs, code, and test cases. Granted, all this forced "togetherness" may not work for every project team.
配对编程鼓励两个人紧密协作：每个人促使另一个更加努力以图超越。共同所有鼓励整个团队更加紧密协作：每个个人和每个双人更努力生产高质量设计、代码和测试集。当然，所有这些强迫的"共同"不一定对所有的项目组适用。
Continuous integration. Daily builds have become the norm in many software companies -- mimicking the published material on the "Microsoft" process (see, for example, Michael A. Cusumano and Richard Selby's Microsoft Secrets ). Whereas many companies set daily builds as a minimum, XP practitioners set the daily integration as the maximum - opting for frequent builds every couple of hours. XP's feedback cycles are quick: develop the test case, code, integrate (build), and test.
经常集成： 每日构造（build）在许多公司已经成为规范，模仿有关"微软"流程的出版物上的东西。（参见，例如，Michael A. Cusumano和Richard Selby的Microsoft Secrets）许多公司将每日编链作为最小要求，XP实践者将每日集成作为最大要求，选择每两个小时一次的频繁编链。XP的反馈周期迅速：开发测试集、编码、集成（编链）和测试。
The perils of integration defects have been understood for many years, but we haven't always had the tools and practices to put that knowledge to good use. XP not only reminds us of the potential for serious integration errors, but provides a revised perspective on practices and tools.
对于集成缺陷危险的认识已有多年了，但我们并不是总能拥有相应工具和时间将这些知识好好用起来。XP不仅提醒我们有可能有严重的集成错误，而且从实践与工具的角度提供了一种新的认识。
40-hour week. Some of XP's 12 practices are principles, while others, such as the 40-hour practice, sound more like rules. I agree with XP's sentiments here; I just don't think work hours define the issue. I would prefer a statement like, "Don't burn out the troops," rather than a 40-hour rule. There are situations in which working 40 hours is pure drudgery and others in which the team has to be pried away from a 60-hour work week.
每周只干40小时： XP有12条实践的基本原则，但是有时候，比如象每周只干40小时的原则，听起来更象规则。我同意XP中的观点。只是不认为有必要硬性规定工作小时数。相比起来，我更喜欢一句类似于"不要把部队烧光"的话。在一些情况下，工作40小时太劳累，而在另外一些组里，甚至需要一周60个工作时。
Jeffries provided additional thoughts on overtime. "What we say is that overtime is defined as time in the office when you don't want to be there. And that you should work no more than one week of overtime. If you go beyond that, there's something wrong -- and you're tiring out and probably doing worse than if you were on a normal schedule. I agree with you on the sentiment about the 60- hour work week. When we were young and eager, they were probably okay. It's the dragging weeks to watch for."
Jeffries提供了关于加班的更多思索："我们说的是加班被定义为我们不想在办公室的时候呆在办公室。而且你不应当加班超过一周。如果你超过了，就有什么东西出了问题――你过于劳累，有可能比你按时下班干的还差。我同意你关于60工作时一周的感受。在我们年轻和满身干劲的时候，这也许没问题。值得注意的是拖沓的一周又一周。"
I don't think the number of hours makes much difference. What defines the difference is volunteered commitment. Do people want to come to work? Do they anticipate each day with great relish? People have to come to work, but they perform great feats by being committed to the project, and commitment only arises from a sense of purpose.
我不认为一周的工作时间会造成大的差别。决定区别的是自愿的贡献。人们愿意来工作吗？他们对每一天都充满干劲吗？人们必须来工作，但是他们通过投入项目来创造巨大成就，而投入仅仅产生于目标感。
On-site customer. This practice corresponds to one of the oldest cries in software development -- user involvement. XP, as with every other rapid development approach, calls for ongoing, on-site user involvement with the project team.
现场客户： 这就对应到了最初软件开发时所提出的问题――用户参与。XP，同其他的快速开发一样，要求客户在现场持续地参与到项目组中。
Coding standards. XP practices are supportive of each other. For example, if you do pair programming and let anyone modify the communal code, then coding standards would seem to be a necessity.
编码标准： XP实践相互支持。例如，如果你进行配对编程并让他人修改共有代码，那么编码标准看起来就是必须的。
价值同规则
On Saturday, 1 January 2000, the Wall Street Journal (you know, the "Monday through Friday" newspaper) published a special 58-page millennial edition. The introduction to the Industry & Economics section, titled "So Long Supply and Demand: There's a new economy out there -- and it looks nothing like the old one," was written by Tom Petzinger. "The bottom line: creativity is overtaking capital as the principal elixir of growth," Petzinger states.
在2000年一月一日周六时候，华尔街日报（周一到周五出版的）用一个58页的版面发布了一个千僖年纪念版。在篇首的有关工业及金融的介绍里标着Tom Petzinger.写的："长久的需求与召唤：经济新的增长点――显得同以往不同"。底下的一行 Petzinger 写着："创造性正代替'万金药'的资本在成为首要的因素"。
Petzinger isn't talking about a handful of creative geniuses, but the creativity of groups -- from teams to departments to companies. Once we leave the realm of the single creative genius, creativity becomes a function of the environment and how people interact and collaborate to produce results. If your company's fundamental principles point to software development as a statistically repeatable, rigorous, engineering process, then XP is probably not for you. Although XP contains certain rigorous practices, its intent is to foster creativity and communication.
Petzinger并没有谈论少数天才的创造性，而是谈了以下群体的创造性――从组到部门。一旦我们撇下天才们的个体创造，创造性就是环境的功能，而人们运用并互相协助而达到我们的结果的能力。如果你的公司认为软件开发只是一个统计上的重复试验，刻板的，技术性的过程，那么XP对于您也许并不合适。虽然XP中也有技术实践里的严格，但是XP本身是追求"创造"与"沟通"。
Environments are driven by values and principles. XP (or the other practices mentioned in this issue) may or may not work in your organization, but, ultimately, success won't depend on using 40-hour work weeks or pair programming -- it will depend on whether or not the values and principles of XP align with those of your organization.
环境是靠价值同规则共同驱动的系统。XP（或者其他类似的）可能、也可能不适合您的单位，可是，应该澄清的是成功并不是只靠每周40小时的疯狂工作或者配对编程，也不是依靠XP之中应用在您单位中的价值或者是规则。
Beck identifies four values, five fundamental principles, and ten secondary principles -- but I'll mention five that should provide enough background.
Beck指出了四个价值，五个基本规则，以及十个辅助规则--不过我要提到是这五个规则。
Communication. So, what's new here? It depends on your perspective. XP focuses on building a person-to-person, mutual understanding of the problem environment through minimal formal documentation and maximum face-to-face interaction. "Problems with projects can invariably be traced back to somebody not talking to somebody else about something important," Beck says. XP's practices are designed to encourage interaction - developer to developer, developer to customer.
沟通： 是的，沟通，可是，这里似乎没有新的东西在里面？沟通主要是看人们自己的看法，XP构建的基本是人与人，通过最简洁的文档，最直接的面对面沟通获得对任务环境的理解。
Simplicity. XP asks of each team member, "What is the simplest thing that could possibly work?" Make it simple today, and create an environment in which the cost of change tomorrow is low.
简洁： XP问每个开发组成员："可能实现的最简洁的方法是什么？"。今天所保持的简洁，可以为降低明天由于变更所带来的费用
Feedback. "Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming," says Beck. "Feedback is the treatment." Whether it's hourly builds or frequent functionality testing with customers, XP embraces change by constant feedback. Although every approach to software development advocates feedback -- even the much-maligned waterfall model -- the difference is that XP practitioners understand that feedback is more important than feedforward . Whether it's fixing an object that failed a test case or refactoring a design that is resisting a change, high-change environments require a much different understanding of feedback.
反馈： Beck说："对于编程而言，乐观主义是一种冒险。"，"而反馈则是相应的解决良药。"无论是用反复的构建或者频繁的用户功能测试，XP都能不断地接收到反馈。虽然每次对软件开发策略进行研讨时，我们都会说及反馈--即使是非常有害的瀑布模型--不同的是XP的实践者认为反馈比起前馈(feedforward)来更为重要。无论是对测试失败的代码进行修改或者是对用户拒收的软件从新返工，开发环境的快速变化要求开发人员对反馈有更好的认识。
Courage. Whether it's a CMM practice or an XP practice that defines your discipline, discipline requires courage. Many define courage as doing what's right, even when pressured to do something else. Developers often cite the pressure to ship a buggy product and the courage to resist. However, the deeper issues can involve legitimate differences of opinion over what is right. Often, people don't lack courage -- they lack conviction, which puts us right back to other values. If a team's values aren't aligned, the team won't be convinced that some practice is "right," and, without conviction, courage doesn't seem so important. It's hard to work up the energy to fight for something you don't believe in.
勇气： 无论您是使用CMM方法或者是XP的方法，方法使用的本身是要求勇气的。许多地方将勇气定义为做某件事情的权利，即使被迫去做其他的事情。开发人员经常借口压力而发出带有许多缺陷的产品，并对此加以坚持。然而，更进一步的应该包括其他的正确的不同的东西进来。通常，人们并不是缺少勇气，而是缺少一种让正确实践获得承认的理由，而且，也不坚信这点，勇气不像看起来那么重要。而如果你对之没有信心，那么是很难尽力工作的。
"Courage isn't just about having the discipline," says Jeffries. "It is also a resultant value. If you do the practices that are based on communication, simplicity, and feedback, you are given courage, the confidence to go ahead in a lightweight manner," as opposed to being weighted down by the more cumbersome, design-heavy practices.
"勇气并不只是方法"，Jeffries说道，它是一种最终的价值。如果你在一种基于"沟通"，"简洁"，"反馈"的模式下工作，你将获得勇气，越往前信赖就越不重要。
Quality work. Okay, all of you out there, please raise your hand if you advocate poor-quality work. Whether you are a proponent of the Rational Unified Process, CMM, or XP, the real issues are "How do you define quality?" and "What actions do you think deliver high quality?" Defining quality as "no defects" provides one perspective on the question; Jerry Weinberg's definition, "Quality is value to some person," provides another. I get weary of methodologists who use the "hacker" label to ward off the intrusion of approaches like XP and lean development. It seems unproductive to return the favor. Let's concede that all these approaches are based on the fundamental principle that individuals want to do a good, high-quality job; what "quality" means and how to achieve it -- now there's the gist of the real debate!
优质的工作：好，如果你们中有赞成劣质工作的话，那么请举手离开这儿吧。不论你是一个Rational Unified Process，CMM，或是XP的赞成者，其本质的观点"你怎样定义质量"与"什么样的活动会赢得高质量"，定义"无缺点"质量是这个问题的一个方向。Jerry Weinberg的定义是"质量是对多数人有益"
管理XP
One area in which XP (at least as articulated in Beck's book) falls short is management, understandable for a practice oriented toward both small project teams and programming. As Beck puts it, "Perhaps the most important job for the coach is the acquisition of toys and food." (Coaching is one of Beck's components of management strategy.)
对于针对小型项目以及编程而言，在XP（至少是Beck的书中）里对管理的欠缺是可以理解的，。就如Beck写的，"对于教练(coach)来说，或许最重要的工作就是获得玩具同食物"（指导是Beck的管理战略中的一个组成部分）
With many programmers, their recommended management strategy seems to be: get out of the way. The underlying assumption? Getting out of the way will create a collaborative environment. Steeped in the tradition of task-based project management, this assumption seems valid. However, in my experience, creating and maintaining highly functional collaborative environments challenges management far beyond making up task lists and checking off their completion.
同许多的程序员一样，他们推荐的管理策略像是：躲避。下面的假定呢？躲避会建立一个协作的环境，在传统的基于任务的管理里，这个假定是有效的。然而，根据我的经验，创造并维持一个协作的环境会挑战管理远离编制任务列表以及检查。
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