Agile Experience Group Meeting Notice for Tuesday, July 6, 2004 RECENT CONFERENCE REFLECTIONS AND DISCUSSIONS Come join the discussion with our panelists who...
The AEG meeting had about 20 folks attend, and was a good discussion of the conferences, trends in them, and how Agile/XP/Lean is viewed by conference...
Thanks to Mary Poppendieck for researching airfares for Denver vs.. Mpls. and proving that Mpls. is on average slightly cheaper domestically and significantly...
At this week's AEG meeting, the question of what would folks like to see happen differently at upcoming conferences was asked. There was a lot of interest in...
Kyle, Yes, I am very interested in this topic. One of the big issue preventing XP and Agile from taking off and becoming more accepted are stories from...
Thomas Becker
Thomas.G.Becker@...
Jul 8, 2004 1:07 pm
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To all XP/Agile software development fans: The Organizing Committee of XPAU 2004 would like to hear about your opinions/experiences regarding the Question of...
I got this from a recruiter today and wanted to pass it on in case anyone is interested: Our client provides a software product that is the most secure, ...
Thank you for your time in responding to the survey. Here is the link to the results: http://pairp.csc.ncsu.edu/compatibility_results.html The survey results...
What are you hoping these results will be used for
beyond your publication/thesis? I would hope it would
be taken to find answers that may already exist, and...
Mark@...
Jul 9, 2004 1:35 pm
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Well said, Mark. I wasn't able to articulate what was bothering me nearly as well as you did. Mary Poppendieck ... From: Mark@......
I too am interested in this topic. A related topic is the conflict between agile methods and usability. I found this conversation between Kent Beck and Alan...
I too am interested in this topic...
First, let me say I see more into this topic than what
you bring up. Also, Kent is strongly against
specialization and...
Mark@...
Jul 9, 2004 8:21 pm
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Just a couple of comments: Thanks, Wilson, for stating this so nicely! :) I don't quite understand your point #4, though. As I understand it, if the agile...
What a great conversation! It certainly points up that there are no simple formulas for this stuff; balance is needed, and it is context-dependent. I would...
All, I certainly agree. Last night a gave a talk showing how useability issues can be included in Use Cases. If a goal of the project is to have highly...
... When I wrote this, I knew it was an oversimplification. Mark, you caught me :-) Your style of XP supports refactoring the user interface without the ...
... usability. ... (pre-)agreement ... a release ... well as ... of course, ... prototypes, ... (Wilson deleted some of Gary's good points so that it would be...
I now understand what you intended by the example you gave. I can see how in the beginning, the usability benefits could be gained - provided users understood...
Mark Graybill
Mark@...
Jul 10, 2004 5:24 pm
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I am in the middle of updating my Agile Customer Toolkit talk (. <http://www.poppendieck.com/pdfs/Agile_Customers_Toolkit_Paper.pdf> ...
Perhaps this is a situation in which naked objects (Richard Pawson) might offer an interesting alternative, avoiding the GUI questions (initially) altogether. ...
Orlin Melstrand
melstrand@...
Jul 11, 2004 10:22 pm
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Dennis: You could create a category called loose ends and put those items in the backlog with that category. Then you could do any of the following: * Assign...
Dave Anderson
Dave.Anderson@...
Jul 12, 2004 10:56 pm
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Hi all, Dennis: The "loose ends" you mention seem to be UI and usability issues that are revealed in the sprint demonstration reviews. I suspect that any...
Gary, on a project I just completed the team took the approach you describe. It worked OK but it was not ideal. We didn't have any problems working with the...
Dion Stewart
dion.stewart@...
Jul 13, 2004 7:10 pm
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... I've read that Microsoft has a Zero Defect Policy. Meaning no new code is added untill all bugs have been fixed. Of course "all bugs" have gone through an...
Hi Dion, Interesting problem that you mention ... The only way that I can think of offhand to short circuit this is that the development team would need to...
Lets talk about a different type of Loose Ends - TechnicalDebt... nothing to do with direct User-perceivable defects yet that significantly impacts the...
All, I remember a discussion about 3 months ago, regarding the CMM level that can be achieved using agile methods. Can somebody point me to information...
A couple of leads: 1. Google for -CMM agile comparison- and you'll find a large number of jumping off points related to this. 2. I did this, and found this...
I know what you are going through. I think many of us have been there. In my experience, you have to do a dispassionate analysis of the Big Ball Of Mud you...
Hi Hubert, The article which is always quoted on this topic is: Mark Paulk. "XP from a CMM Perspective" IEEE Software, Nov/Dec 2001. It used to be available...
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