Extreme programming from a CMM perspective

Extreme Programming has been advocated recently as an appropriate programmi ng method for the high-speed, volatile world of Internet and Web software d evelopment. The author reviews XP from the perspective of the Capability Ma turity Model for Software, gives overviews of both approaches, and critique s XP from a SW-CMM perspective. He concludes that lightweight methodologies such as XP advocate many good engineering practices and that both perspect ives have something to offer, the other.