Update your team to be more extreme

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Argues that changing team routines beats ad hoc fixes, offering five ideas (communication, feedback, simplicity, courage, respect) and concrete practices: adopt extreme programming habits like pair programming and test‑first, run code katas (Gilda Rose refactoring, bank kata, fizzbuzz) and short internal tech talks, and reserve regular slots — half an hour once or twice per month — for learning. Cites real artifacts: a webshop system, open‑source projects (FL, garcella Casella) as playgrounds to try these practices and measure improvement.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:06How does a team work?
3. 4:47What's the problem?
4. 11:59Agile Manifesto
5. 14:18Extreme Programming (XP)
6. 16:42Some principles of XP
7. 18:25What are the key challenges when adopting XP?
8. 19:33How can you help your peers to embrace the change?
9. 20:35What is a code kata?
10. 24:01Recommended readings

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