Rachel Reinitz

Reinitz Consulting

309 Penn Way

Los Gatos, CA 95032

c. 408-829-4556

Rachel@reinitzconsulting.com

 

Challenges of Implementing XP in a Large Company

 

The challenges facing a team of XP coaches, including myself, at a large US financial institution seem endless.  We have commitment to XP from the VP of Development, but his organization has been implementing XP in an extremely limited, chaotic fashion. The organization outside of Development, particularly upper management, believes that the Development has been implementing XP and failing to deliver, so XP is getting a bad reputation at this company.  So we face severe political and perception challenges.  Then we face a myriad of challenges in implementing XP including:

 

Is there hope for this team? What can be done to turn the team around and be successful? These are the questions facing us!