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Principles of eXtreme Business

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The following principles are formulated by analogy with the principles of eXtreme Programming.
 
Don't waste energy anticipating or controlling the future.
Build structures and processes that will satisfy the current requirements.
Just enough complexity / flexibility. (Keep it simple, stupid.)
Refactor periodically to maintain proper balance between simplicity, efficiency and flexibility.
Focus on responding authentically to the immediate demand.

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Challenges of eXtreme Business

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eXtreme Programming works best inside a container - an external or wrapping system to provide regular feeds of requirements and resources. Where is the container or wrapper for an eXtreme Business?
eXtreme Programming assumes the knowledge and skill to reflect and intervene on emerging structures and processes. This knowledge and skill belongs to a single discipline - software engineering. By contrast, an eXtreme Business has multiple conflicting professional disciplines - accountancy, legal, marketing, risk management, and others - all attempting to reflect and intervene on emerging structures. This entails a higher level of management - apparently not required in XP - to knock professional heads together.
An eXtreme business is likely to be radically delayered - on the grounds that middle management are primarily concerned with longer-term strategic issues, which the eXtreme Business explicitly disregards.
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