Articles about Extreme Programming (XP) and "Agile" methods

• The #1 Serious Flaw in Extreme Programming
  -- It excludes an essential strategy in application development
• The #2 Serious Flaw in Extreme Programming
  -- It undermines the benefits of reuse

• Agile Methods and Torpid Programmers
  -- The name is inappropriate and demeaning.

• Is Insubordination Becoming an Agile Tradition?
  —An alarming view of developers' attitudes toward requirements documentation.

• Book reviews:
  • Boehm & Turner: Balancing Agility and Discipline
    -- an attempt at a balanced view.
  • Extreme Programming Refactored
    -- Stephens & Rosenberg's common sense.

• "It's Easier for Programmers to Talk to Each Other than to Document" -- Extremists want us to abandon a vital discipline.

Articles about program design

• Reusable Components—Decades of Misconceptions, Guildelines for Success: Why has it taken so long to practice this valuable technique?

Articles about coding standards

• Assign-to-self Overkill : Don't do what the textbooks tell you.
• Thoughts on Some Proposed C Coding Standards -- IEEE article misses the point.
• Conventions for related entity, name, and identifier classes -- clarification of some often misunderstood distinctions.
• A Mild Dissent from a Growing Practice-- An inquiry into the growing concern with the sequence of sections in a class.
• Case Construct Widely Misused to Implement a Table. A comment on a puzzling growing practice among students and some authors.
• Repetition: the #1 Enemy of Program Quality
• COBOL Standards Quiz: Some programming standards are good; some are harmful. Which are these?

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