Support for Distributed Teams in eXtreme Programming

1 The author's work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of the PhD program “Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce” at Darmstadt University of Technology. Abstract The extreme Programming methodology (XP) relies on co-located collaboration of programming teams. This paper discusses problems and possible solutions when distributed teams decide to do XP. Communication and awareness support are the keys to the successful distribution of programming teams. The XP methodology is analysed with respect to these essential issues. We present TUKAN, which is a synchronous distributed team programming environment, which applies groupware research results to the XP domain and solves the problems which arise when XP is carried out by distributed teams.