TheC3Project

The Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation (C3) project. C3 was a new system, built to replace some 10 or 14 payroll programs which plugged into a myriad of inputting and reporting systems. All done in Smalltalk, using XP. KentBeck was the head coach.

A very successful project, until recently when it was abruptly terminated:

Near as I can tell the fundamental problem was that the GoldOwner? and GoalDonor? weren't the same. The customer feeding stories to the team didn't care about the same things as the managers evaluating the team's performance. This is bad, and we know it's bad, but it was masked early because we happened to have a customer who was precisely aligned with the IT managers. The new customers who came on wanted tweaks to the existing system more than they wanted to turn off the next mainframe payroll system. IT management wanted to turn off the next mainframe payroll system. Game over. Or not, we'll see... --KentBeck (From http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CthreeProjectTerminated)