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Things To Pay Attention To
This is definitely a rough draft of the book.
We believe we have most of a complete book, once we get the contributions
we're looking for from others (see below).
The big question for us is the organization.
We are trying to balance telling people how to apply it based on experience in a
way that is helpful rather than just a "collection of stories… you figure what to do
with them".
We suspect we may have slightly too much "our version of XP Explained" but
we're not sure. The intent is to tell people what the pioneers have experienced, but
we need to put all of that in context. We don't think we can assume they've read XP
Explained (or any of the other books), but we don't want to rehash and we don't have
a problem referring them to the other books.
We have stories in all sorts of forms intermingled in here. We should probably
stick to no more than 2-3 forms (short blurbs, longer side bars, ???).
Where should the stories go? How do they affect the flow positively or
negatively?
Keeping in mind that we want this book to ooze experience, not theory or
predictions or unsubstantiated opinions, we want your help in at least one of two
roles:
Reviewers
Is this differentiated enough from other XP books to provide clear value?
Does it achieve the goal of experience over theory?
Tell us what you think about the current "macro" flow and "micro" flow (i.e.
we'll take either, but please distinguish between book flow, section flow, chapter
flow comments)
Is there anything missing?
Content Contributors
The following table summarizes our thoughts on what we'd like individuals to
provide based on what we know of your experiences. We'd like to keep each of these
