eXtreme Manufacturing (or XM) is an agile method that was applied by Joe Justice and Marcin Jakubowski to hardware design. The XM refers to "XP", or extreme programming. It finds its source at the crossroads of the Agile approach, engineering and knowledge management. The application of the XM

Today, manufacturers need to produce more and more in an ever shorter time and users are more fussy about the quality. The products must match their expectations to have real value. Adopting the agile hardware development methods would save time and improve final quality. The software industry has already made