Now that Alan, Ellen, and I had a grasp on our technical practices, we added a couple of bright, new engineers, Paul and Alex. They were glad to be on the team learning OO design and XP, and contributing to a new product.

It was a good team; we worked well together. There was collaboration, cooperation, and excitement about our progress and learning. We pair-programmed, wrote CppUnit tests, refactored our design as we went, and created our own application-specific language to drive acceptance tests. We accomplished a lot.