Introduction

Zest Software is an Open Source Web Application development company focused at delivering high quality software that is adaptable to reflect the business processes within your organisation. Saying this is easy. Being able to manage software development and actually deliver high quality software takes a lot of effort from both our team of experts and the customer. During the past years we have encountered various problems in managing our projects. In our vision making mistakes is only human, it is the way you respond and learn from those mistakes that make the experience valuable.

In the past year we have step by step adopted some valuable best practices from Extreme Programming. After each step we critically evaluated each decision and tailored the rules to our needs. As a result we developed a system which is loosely based on Extreme Programming and fully supports our development process.