One response I haven't spotted yet among all the useful advice - if your team needs to be split for some reason that you cannot get round, consider breaking...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Sep 18, 2006 6:55 pm
... For me the bigger problem for distributed teams isn't dealing with scheduled meeting times like stand ups or the planning game. There people are pretty...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Sep 18, 2006 7:05 pm
... Much as I love fitnesse... I'm somewhat sceptical that adding it to the mix is just as effective as having the Customer in the same room... Adrian...
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Mishkin Berteig
berteigconsu...
Sep 18, 2006 9:04 pm
Yup! Here's a reference to one study that I found fairly quickly: http://possibility.com/Misc/p339-teasley.pdf Also, Ken Schwaber in the Certified ScrumMaster...
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PaulOldfield1@...
pauloldfield1
Sep 19, 2006 8:00 am
(responding to Phlip, Alain) ... Hmm... by my math, it would never be worthwhile to split a team between two sites if this were true - give all the work to the...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Sep 19, 2006 8:07 am
Hello PaulOldfield1, thank you for your note. On Tuesday, September ... A university of michigan study found 2x performance improvement in teams that had a...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Sep 19, 2006 9:11 am
... Hmm... by my math, it would never be worthwhile to split a team between two sites if this were true - give all the work to the larger half and you'd do...
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PaulOldfield1@...
pauloldfield1
Sep 19, 2006 9:22 am
(responding to Ron) ... Thanks, Ron. So, if we could reproduce the good effects of the War Room in a distributed situation, this would give us something to aim...
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PaulOldfield1@...
pauloldfield1
Sep 19, 2006 10:15 am
(responding to Alain) ... What I find interesting is this possibility: "Fly those guys up here for 3 weeks in every 5, then give them the other 2 weeks off...
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PaulOldfield1@...
pauloldfield1
Sep 19, 2006 2:11 pm
... I just spotted this blog post on the topic - Mishkin Berteig seems to come to a similar conclusion. ...
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acyment
Sep 19, 2006 2:58 pm
... This is precisely where my original question pointed at. What prop, what technology shall we need, which maybe doesn't exist yet, in order to have a...
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Mishkin Berteig
berteigconsu...
Sep 19, 2006 3:29 pm
There is one way to develop software for a global market that does not require you to work with a distributed team: web-based products. You can use agile...
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Mishkin Berteig
berteigconsu...
Sep 19, 2006 3:33 pm
Actually, that's just me quoting myself from this list! Mishkin ... I just spotted this blog post on the topic - Mishkin Berteig seems to come to a similar...
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acyment
Sep 19, 2006 5:38 pm
That's really good advice...and what would you call remotely developing a product for an overseas customer? Almost all the team is in Argentina, except for the...
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bee
plexusy
Sep 19, 2006 5:42 pm
I have dont usability testing in the traditional watershed design methodology where-by the usability test is essentially a set of tasks that a group of...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Sep 19, 2006 6:20 pm
... Sounds like you are talking about agile-upfront design (sort of a contradiction in terms isn't it?). In other words, you are talking about doing the...
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Mishkin Berteig
berteigconsu...
Sep 19, 2006 6:21 pm
Actually, I do think that pure outsourcing like you are talking about here is less difficult than a split team. Again, with anyone remote, time zones become a...
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jeff_werness
Sep 19, 2006 9:55 pm
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acyment
Sep 19, 2006 9:59 pm
Hi everyone out there, I reckon that many of you agile people have used Smalltalk for some time. I worked as a ST developer for over an year and, after coming ...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Sep 20, 2006 12:05 am
... Why? Why should there be many files, just because there are many classes? Shouldn't the programmer have the option to store part of a class, all a class,...
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Jon Kern
jonkernpa
Sep 20, 2006 1:17 am
i'm hung up on your comment that refactoring should result in "...lots of classes with a couple of methods each..." is that an assertion of yours or are you...
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acyment
Sep 20, 2006 3:13 am
Don't ask me, ask Sun & Microsoft! Both Java & .NET compilers and IDEs make strong assumptions on the 1-to-1 relationship between files & classes. This I find...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Sep 20, 2006 3:18 am
... Wait till you see what Ruby on Rails can do with the Model View Controller pattern, using techniques which I suspect include splitting class definitions...
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acyment
Sep 20, 2006 3:20 am
Good point. It is my assertion, but not a fully justified one. I mainly stated that after recalling OOP classes back in school: "aim at having shallow...
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Jon Kern
jonkernpa
Sep 20, 2006 4:14 am
i think it is funny being called "you people" ;=) i can't speak for others... however, there is often a correlation between good design and - depth of...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Sep 20, 2006 7:10 am
Hi, Brett. ... I don't know if it's just a matter of language, but I think notions of "design phase", "final test", and "complete design" are all antithetical ...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Sep 20, 2006 1:57 pm
i think it is funny being called "you people" ;=) i can't speak for others... however, there is often a correlation between good design and - depth of...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Sep 20, 2006 1:58 pm
... For that matter, why should there be many small classes at all? We all know that systems with huge bloated classes are hard to understand and work with....
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hetenpost
Sep 20, 2006 3:52 pm
Hello everybody it is my firs post here I really like the group so far I'm looking for a good book as well but not necessary a book that is readable for...
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Ilja Preuss
ipreussde
Sep 20, 2006 5:51 pm
... The Eclipse developers obviously thought that it might be a good idea, because you can configure to do something that quite close. Not too surprising,...
