Making Progress to FCE (First Certificate in English) Workbook

Consider two companies bidding to do work for you. The first says, "We have this carefully thought through and documented process that we have used many times. Here it is in these boxes of binders." The second says, "We sit close together and trade notes, without writing anything down. In particular, we don't need to write down our methodology, because we are all responsible individuals." Which would you hire? The force plays on the natural reflex that a heavier and more precisely choreographed methodology is "safer." It is a non-negligible factor in the awarding of contracts, even if the process used on the job is not the same as the one that is outlined in the manuals. 5. Demonstrating visible progress Related to impressing the sponsors, the purpose of the methodology may be to allow the contractors to show their sponsors what they have been doing. In the methodology my colleague was being taught, a key element was to produce something visible every single day so that the sponsors would know that they had been "making progress." Exercise for the reader: Reconsidering XP in this light, ask yourself what an XP team could show every single day to demonstrate visible progress to the sponsors. 6 ...»