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Bottom-Up Application Programming With Perl

• Tags:
• bank,
• perl,
• barclays bank,
• extreme programming

Overview A major UK bank wanted a Perl guru, but would settle for someone 'Who knew a bit about everything'. They wanted a fully configurable shopping-basket ordering system. While Perl may not have seemed the obvious choice for such a system, the existing system was already using it, and they wanted the existing functionality to be transferred to the new site. A consultant for Barclays Bank at their technology center in Cheshire, England, switched the project methodology to a derivative of Extreme Programming, and set about writing two major spike developments as proof of concept, interlinking with their existing proprietary work management tool, Siebel, and their Oracle-based HR database.

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