so what do you suppose the business model is/will be for supplying these links to assorted businesses? near my hometown in PA, i tried ice cream, ford,...
i agree with alistair... people process tools in about that order. i'll take 10 good people any day over 100 underskilled ones -- jon ... <asalem@s...> ... ...
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Is this the article link you intended to send, Sommer? I couldn't figure out how this relates to agile usability. Thanks, William ... -- William Pietri...
Jeff Patton: "This idea of goal level, or abstraction level, and the comparison of goals at a high level to the smaller goals at another level seems pretty...
I'd like to take Hugh's analogy to the painter a step further. 'Master' painters will work out the intricate details of a painting in a sketchbook. (XPers call...
... wrote: AC:<<I'll posit a slightly extreme position in this post, mostly for the sake of discussion, that if you are finding that people's self reported...
p.s. nice note on the examples, Hugh, thanks ... sawmill, table ... amount of ... Once again it looks like you trimmed too much out of my post and lost the...
... wrote: AC:<<I'll posit a slightly extreme position in this post, mostly for the sake of discussion, that if you are finding that people's self reported...
not to dis clams... i think a "scallop-based" method might be a better approach.... don't they have up to 100 eyes? -- jon ... wrote: AC:<<I'll posit a...
i think in some sense, agile methods are paired with requiring competent, top-notch people because 1) It is easy to follow a rigorous, multi-step process like...
... When talking about optimizing code, some wise person once said "If it doesn't have to work, I can make it as fast as you want." The two ideas above remind...
right on! a possible corollary to " AND YOU DON'T CARE IF YOU GET THE SOFTWARE ": "Since we're going to fail at building this software anyway, we may as well...
- I certainly would agree with Jon for his words describes truly my experience. Agile can be quite a successful approach when the team is very competent. This...
<OT vent> I am really frustrated with Yahoo, because for the second time, yesterday, I wrote a long, exhausting post, and did it online just so that it would...
It just dawned on me why I wouldn't have noticed or cared about the first example you gave, Hugh --- I show up to write use cases, and we need to write a use...
I read "The world is flat" (I give it a C-, worth a quick scan), and thought, along these lines, that what we are saying is, "We don't know how to manage a...
As one who leads CMMI IPPD development this is likely not true in practice...but simply conjecture on the part of those not practicing heavy processes in a...
Since I was the one who asked the question about elite methods, I wanted to clarify that I THOUGHT I had heard the comment about experts and agile methods at...
speaking of making conjectures... gary ... As one who leads CMMI IPPD development this is likely not true in practice...but simply conjecture on the part of...
... <<Since I was the one who asked the question about elite methods, I wanted to clarify that I THOUGHT I had heard the comment about experts and agile...
... show up in ... painter ... then an ... whole ... the role ... giraffe level, ... Oddly, it's metaphors like this one I see used often that suggests moving...
... further. 'Master' painters will work out the intricate details of a painting in a sketchbook. (XPers call this a spike solution.) Once they have figured...
i always say... "if you have convinced yourself that you can't get it done locally, what in the heck are you thinking that 12 time zones away is going to be...
please define mission-critical... man-rated, mission critical systems are a different story. always attach the right level of rigor and process as needed... ...
Jon, Mission critical can be applied outside man rated as NASA uses that term. Mission critical can be applied to a brad variety of system from process ...