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    On all but the smallest of projects, the people involved in a software project will be part of one or more entities&#xD;
    (businesses, functional groups, governments, communities, etc.). The &lt;a class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../../xp/guidances/concepts/xp_practices.html&quot; guid=&quot;2.2937799026801584E-305&quot;>XP Practices&lt;/a> focus on the roles directly involved in identifying what the software needs to do (&lt;a class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_customer_team.html&quot; guid=&quot;2.9889538140050517E-306&quot;>XP Customer Team&lt;/a>) and developing that software (&lt;a class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_developer_team.html&quot; guid=&quot;8.608243854485154E-306&quot;>XP Developer Team&lt;/a>). To support those teams, the &lt;a class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../../xp/guidances/concepts/whole_team.html&quot; guid=&quot;7.89591827591278E-306&quot;>Whole Team&lt;/a> includes a third important group, the XP Organization.&#xD;
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    The specific roles that XP identifies as part of the XP Organization are the XP Tracker and the XP Coach. The XP&#xD;
    Organization also includes all of the people who make up the infrastructure that allows the project to exist. This&#xD;
    includes management, accounting, support, facilities, etc. Because these are supporting roles, XP attempts to minimize&#xD;
    the dependence of the XP Customer Team and the XP Developer Team on the XP Organization. In XP, the goal is for the&#xD;
    whole team to be self-managing and largely self-supporting. XP does not give specific practice guidance to these other&#xD;
    roles, but does suggest that these roles also guide their practices with the &lt;a class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../../xp/guidances/concepts/xp_values.html&quot; guid=&quot;1.076140803519123E-306&quot;>XP Values&lt;/a> of communication, simplicity, feedback, and courage.&#xD;
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