Introducing XP—XP Value 4: Courage

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XP Value 4: Courage

It takes an enormous amount of courage to try something new. That is because individuals seem to naturally resist change and fear the unknown. XP teams need courage when they encounter resistance to what they are trying to do.

It also takes courage to expose your weaknesses. That is what developers are doing when they pair-program.

Note Paired programming is when two developers work on a task together. It is one of the XP practices, as described in the “XP Practice 3” section of this chapter.

It takes courage for the development team members to tell the project stakeholders that they are not going to complete all of the user stories in a given iteration.