A Comparative Study of Agile Methods: XP versus SCRUM

Extreme programming (XP) and SCRUM are both agile software development methodologies. Each of one has its own way to be applied on specific projects also each one has own value compare with the other. When applied on project or used to improve the productivity of projects through managing the most necessary elements like stakeholder managements. The research work presents a comparative analysis between XP and SCRUM. The focus will be applicability on the objective of outline the similarities and difference between the two methods. Finally a recommended is made on the possibility of using both of them in an individual project. Also each one focused on field of practices like communication, product development and feedback for the project so on; in this research would be focused on each method by doing comparison between XP and SCRUM through applicability to software project, contract issue, incremental style, iterative level for each method to get some of feature like similarities and differences for tow method to reach point how can useful if XP or SCRUM operate with each other for some project.