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| Description
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| <p>
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| All the contributors to an XP project sit together, members of a whole team. The team shares the project goals and the
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| responsibility for achieving them. This team must include a business representative, the "Customer" who provides the
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| requirements, sets the priorities, and steers the project. It's best if the Customer or one of her aides is a real end
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| user who knows the domain and what is needed. The team will of course have programmers. The team may include testers,
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| who help the Customer define the customer acceptance tests. Analysts may serve as helpers to the Customer, helping to
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| define the requirements. There is commonly a coach, who helps the team keep on track and facilitates the process. There
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| may be a manager, providing resources, handling external communication and coordinating activities. None of these roles
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| is necessarily the exclusive property of just one individual. Everybody on an XP team contributes in any way that they
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| can. The best teams have no specialists, only general contributors with special skills.
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| Subservient in organization to the Whole Team are the teams that focus on the business decisions (<a class="elementLink" href="./../../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_customer_team.html" guid="2.9889538140050517E-306">XP Customer Team</a>), the technical decisions (<a class="elementLink" href="./../../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_developer_team.html" guid="8.608243854485154E-306">XP Developer Team</a>), and the organization that supports those teams (<a class="elementLink" href="./../../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_organization.html" guid="5.613949040902463E-308">XP Organization</a>). To create a context for clear communication, XP provides a set of
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| guidelines defining the rights of the customer and developer. These guidelines are referred to as the <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../../xp/guidances/concepts/xp_rights.html" guid="3.036332011267074E-306">customer and a developer bill of rights</a>.
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| <a class="elementLink" href="./../../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_customer_team.html" guid="2.9889538140050517E-306">XP Customer Team</a>
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| <a class="elementLink" href="./../../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_developer_team.html" guid="8.608243854485154E-306">XP Developer Team</a>
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| <th width="36%">
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| <a class="elementLink" href="./../../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_organization.html" guid="5.613949040902463E-308">XP Organization</a>
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| <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../../xp/roles/xp_customer.html" guid="{3C90DD4F-CFDB-4111-922D-3B840B8942DE}">Customer</a>
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| <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../../xp/roles/xp_programmer.html" guid="{08A6AF28-69B1-42DC-A957-2E6CDCB436C1}">Programmer</a>
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| <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../../xp/roles/xp_tracker.html" guid="{D8FE277E-4F9A-47EB-855F-C451D601BBAF}">Tracker</a>
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| <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../../xp/roles/xp_tester.html" guid="{FB65D00B-8304-4CF7-9969-52CE82F503DC}">Tester</a>
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| &nbsp;
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| <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../../xp/roles/xp_coach.html" guid="{9C440605-FF0E-4D37-A774-BBF8B5F47AB6}">Coach</a>
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| <h3>
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| Benefits
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| <ul>
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| <b>Progress visibility</b>: customer gets real feedback on a daily basis.
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| <b>Agility</b>: customer can steer team on a daily basis.
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| </li>
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| <b>Reduces miscommunication</b>: contact is direct and face to face, single point of contact.
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| </li>
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| <b>Speeds up communication</b>: customer is always available to answer questions.
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