page_title: EXtreme Manufacturing
section_title: Contemporary interests
hierarchical_section_title: EXtreme Manufacturing / Contemporary interests
caption_attribution_description: English: Finished Wikispeed car at Agile DC 2013
context_page_description: eXtreme Manufacturing is an iterative and incremental framework for manufacturing improvement and new product development that was inspired by the software development methodology Scrum and the systematic waste-elimination production scheduling system Kanban.
  It is often presented as the intersection between three contributing, component circles: that of Scrum, of object-oriented architecture, and of concepts from extreme programming, a software development methodology, extended to engineering. The framework also generally applies principles of behavior-driven development.
  The name was coined in 2012 by Joe Justice, founder of Wikispeed, and Marcin Jakubowski, founder of Open Source Ecology, as a take-off of the name extreme programming, a software development methodology. The XM framework, popularized by Justice and J.J. Sutherland, has a rich history, with origins that relate to the Japanese concept of a Kaizen or "improvement" business culture, and which predate the early implementations of agile software development.
context_section_description: A number of prototype cars have been developed by separate companies using the XM process.
  In 2008, in response to the Automotive X Prize sponsored by Progressive Insurance—a $10 million prize aimed rewarding the design and construction of a car capable of fuel efficiency at the 100 miles per gallon (m.p.g.) mark, while achieving "road-legal safety specifications"—Joe Justice and team Wikispeed, composed of 44 members from 4 countries, used XM to achieve what Fortune magazine called the "seemingly impossible:" application of tools formerly largely devoted to software manufacturing, to the development of a functional automotive prototype in three months time. Even more remarkable than the 100 m.p.g. car was an impressive rate of acceleration: from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in less than 5 seconds. The success—finishing 10th in the mainstream class, and "outrunning more than one hundred other cars from well-funded companies and universities around the world"— led to an invitation to team Wikispeed to showcase their prototype at the Detroit auto show.
  Companies use XM as a way to challenge their employees to develop new skills and learn the power of teamwork to solve complex problems. For example, in 2013, Lockheed Martin (Sunnyvale, CA) challenged 200 of its engineers to build a 100 m.p.g. car in a single day; the challenge was met and the team's car was sold for $25,000. Another such example is opensourceecology.org, whose Global Village Construction Set is developing and building affordable industrial machines, and publishing the designs on-line for free.
caption: Team Wikispeed and Agile DC conference attendees celebrating success.
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