Introducing Discipline to XP: Applying PRINCE2 on XP Projects

Agile methods are increasingly gaining momentum, and more and more growing as the market standard for software development. However agile methods suffer from the lack of disciplined planning. We will try in this paper to see the effect of introducing disciplined project management methodology on the flexibility and agility with which agile methods are characterized. In this paper we will see the effect of using a modified XP, the most well-known and oldest method of the agile spectrum, along with PRINCE2 one of the successful management methods. In doing so, we will resort to the findings of a real life project, which was coached by the author, where a team of eleven developers was able to deliver high quality software within budget and under strict time constraints. The result was a new method derived from both XP and PRINCE2.