There aren't any silver bullets in software development, and there probably never will be. However, Extreme Programming is a simple set of common-sense practices that, when used together, really can give you much of what you just read in the paragraph above. In this book, we tell you what the XP practices are, and how to install them in your project.

This technical report outlines the contents of a minimal set of software development documents, tailored for use by students in software engineering projects, and firmly based on IEEE standards. The document set is designed to support software development activities. It provides a framework for use in undergraduate software engineering projects, both individual and team-based, that helps students to learn best practice. A supplementary report describes the content of each document in more detail. 1. Background. Projects form an important part of the education of software engineers. They form an active method of teaching, as defined by Piaget, leading to a "training in self-discipline and voluntary effort " [1], which is important to software engineering professionals. Two purposes served by these projects are: education in professional practice, and outcomes-based assessment, as identified in the ACM/IEEE Computing Curricula 2001 [2]. An infrastructure must be provided whereby the students are well guided in their learning, yet have an opportunity to display their individual achievements for the purposes of assessment. This