In 1996 software engineer Kent Beck was brought on to oversee development, as the system had not yet printed a single paycheck.Gerold. Beck in turn brought in Ron Jeffries. In March of that year, the development team estimated that the system would be ready to go into production in around one year. In 1997 the development team adopted a way of working now formalized as Extreme Programming.Highsmith p. 298 Although there was a slight delay due to unclear business requirements, the system was launched just a couple of months later than the one-year delivery target.c2 wiki on c3
