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A S noted in the introduction, the area of PD has been growing rapidly--in terms of numbers of practices, extent of theoretical development, numbers of practitioners, and geographical and institutional diversity of practice. This has led to two problems:• Practitioners may need some guidance in finding techniques that are appropriate for their particular circumstances.• Practitioners, software development management, and Other stakeholders may believe incorrectly that PD has not been used in commercial products, or that it has not been successful outside Of Scandinavia.

Here, we attempt to resolve both of these problems: first by attempting to provide a brief guide to PD practices for current or potential practitioners, we have organized practices into a taxonomic space with two visual dimensions (Figure 1), and a third dimension given by the following notations: