I've been with my current employer a year now. Our development processes are agile in some respects, but have a lot of the leftover chaotic type culture from...
... The Agile Manifesto sucks. Here's my version: "When you develop software, the size of increments between complete system tests matters. At one scale, some...
... Nice version. Believe it or not one of the manifesto authors would not accept that there was any upper limit on the length of an iteration of an agile ...
Ward Cunningham
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Apr 5, 2003 12:46 am
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Lisa, I think you need to focus on problems that the people you're trying to persuade recognize. I've seen the "truck-factor" problem routinely over the...
Your ideas are in line with my experience trying to change management/teams for the last many years. I also advise: 1. Don't give up, change comes slowly and...
Jon & Laura Hagar
invision@...
Apr 6, 2003 4:24 pm
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Lisa, At the managerial level you're talking about, I had some favorable response using the Scrum book as a reference. It lives in the same strategic space ...
Hi Everyone, I am the hiring manager for the Software QA/API Tester opening listed below, and I am looking for an energetic engineer who is an excellent...
... I've looked at it very briefly. It did not strike me as something i would call agile. Why do you ask? Bret _____________________________________ Bret...
Especially in medium to large companies workers have entrenched and maybe opposite ideas on Software Development. Many people find solace (and there is still...
Aidy, You may want to look at my book, Lessons Learned in Software Testing. Although it does not address TMAP specifically, it does contain dozens of arguments...
Thanks to everyone who replied to my posting, both on this list and privately. I got a lot of great advice and suggestions and I'm putting them to use. One...
... Well done, Lisa! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) --Walt...
Hi all, Firstly, I have been reading a bit about XP for sometime now, however, have not actually had an oppurtunity to properly implement XP, but have...
Hi, Support a given load is certainly a user requirement. Therefore it will be formulated in a user story - new or existing story. And so it is in scope of any...
... There has recently been quite a lot of discussion on this list about environmental factors in delivering software. The very real need to test things like...
Hubert Matthews
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Apr 14, 2003 3:39 pm
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... Of course there are many kinds of stress. I have considered two and implemented one in the context of fit style tests (fit.c2.com). Simultaneous Users --...
Ward Cunningham
ward@...
Apr 14, 2003 3:53 pm
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... The only things odd about xp and non-functional testing is that xp expects the testing to be automated and to be driven by customer stories. For example,...
Ward Cunningham
ward@...
Apr 14, 2003 3:54 pm
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Pair-programming and refactoring may limit general performance problems. Any specific performance criteria specified by the customer in the form of...
I've been developing an application incrementally for my own use. Here are two things that happened. 1) I had a feature that I originally wanted. (Story card:...
... Smalltalk-80 had a utility that would delete any methods that weren't called as detected by the presence of the selector in at least one method. One would...
Ward Cunningham
ward@...
Apr 14, 2003 9:48 pm
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I have removed a lot of features in my experiences. Depending on the specifics of the application / feature, there are a lot of different stories that I could...
... Uh, count your blessings he's in the same hemisphere ;-) ... Ouch. We should have warned you against attacking code ownership. As a cowboy, I take the...
... The ESI Eiffel Compiler will remove unused material. I am not sure what the others do, but they are likely to have similar capabilities. Identifying...
Thanks for the various comments. Removing these two features from the code would be simple, I think. They're fairly isolated, so I wouldn't need a dead code...
Would it be possible to change the subjob implementation to have NullObject behavior? Remove all the behavior from the subjob, and presumably the tests will...
I don't think the redundant testing ("unnessary variety") is at all a problem. If it gives insight into the application, its requirements or design, and gives...
... No. No. Don't do that. You have to do what you fear early and often. Checkpoint your development now and solve this problem three times over. Then report ...
Ward Cunningham
ward@...
Apr 15, 2003 5:30 pm
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... I will do that. I have an additional idea, though. I'm giving a talk at the STAR conference <http://www.sqe.com/stareast/sessions.asp> on specification by...
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