> It got only the very basics working and then died when it ran into the vast number of unspecified exceptional cases (gee, where have we heard that before ...) that needed to be handled. And then got cancelled and completely reverted.
> To then use such a failure as a marquee project demonstrating the supposed "superiority" of XP is unabashed chutzpah.
> Now, large IT projects generally fail. So, XP is not wholly to blame.
One could argue that XP achieved a significantly better outcome than the typical project of that size. They didn't cause any big outages, and reached the end result of being cancelled and reverted much more quickly and cheaply than usual.
> To then use such a failure as a marquee project demonstrating the supposed "superiority" of XP is unabashed chutzpah.
> Now, large IT projects generally fail. So, XP is not wholly to blame.
One could argue that XP achieved a significantly better outcome than the typical project of that size. They didn't cause any big outages, and reached the end result of being cancelled and reverted much more quickly and cheaply than usual.