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