... of the agile-usability comfort zone might want to drop in on this thread on the extremeprogramming list: ...
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Mark Schraad
mschraad333
Feb 18, 2007 11:37 pm
... Straight up, I think way to much design is done without the benefit of research. Most design research is a periodic ramp up to support a specific problem....
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 19, 2007 12:43 am
... To be clear, I'm not talking about collaboration. I'm talking about reaching a consensus. Very different things. Collaborators contribute ideas and have...
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 19, 2007 12:57 am
... Funny - I see why you would ask that, but no, I mean the same company. Agile development with 0 transparency to customers. For the record, I work for Go...
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 19, 2007 1:05 am
... Here's my attempt at a constructive response to that question: Please see my other reply in this thread. Again, collaboration and consensus are two very...
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 19, 2007 1:06 am
... You must live somewhere near a perfect world. Can you give me the address? -r-...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 19, 2007 1:16 am
Hello, Robert. On Sunday, February 18, 2007, at 7:57:23 PM, you ... That's some new kind of Agile that I wasn't previously familiar with. If I recall the...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 19, 2007 1:22 am
Hello, Robert. On Sunday, February 18, 2007, at 8:06:41 PM, you ... I'm here, other than to amuse myself, to describe how Agile processes are supposed to be...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Feb 19, 2007 1:29 am
... I can certainly believe that's what you've experienced, but again, this works fine for me, so I find your assertion too sweeping. It works for a lot of...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 19, 2007 1:43 am
On 17 Feb 2007, at 15:47, Jeff Patton wrote: [snip] ... [snip] I think of "assumption based" persona as a pointer towards the target, not the target itself....
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 19, 2007 1:43 am
On 16 Feb 2007, at 17:37, Jeff Patton wrote: [snip] ... Another great way to deal with the developers who "just know" is to take the result of the first...
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 19, 2007 1:44 am
... With all due respect - and you do deserve quite a bit for advancing the notion of an agile process - being part of writing the Agile Manifesto doesn't mean...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Feb 19, 2007 1:47 am
... As with Ron, that doesn't sound particularly agile to me. ... That's unfortunate. And it may be the source of some of the problems you're experiencing....
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 19, 2007 2:00 am
Hello, Robert. On Sunday, February 18, 2007, at 8:44:13 PM, you ... Yes, to the detriment of the term and ultimately to the understanding of the ideas. Martin...
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 19, 2007 2:20 am
... Perhaps this is true in some cases, but it's certainly not true in all cases, and I see little point in trying to maintain that the Manifesto is the only...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 19, 2007 2:37 am
On 18 Feb 2007, at 23:37, Mark Schraad wrote: [snip] ... [snip] A lot of web sites get used solely for works too - lots of intranet and company-workflow apps...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 19, 2007 2:37 am
... Nope. Consensus means consensus. Not design by committee. Pet hate of mine. Sorry. It might not have worked for you. It has worked for me. Seems to work in...
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Brian Marick
briandawnpau...
Feb 19, 2007 2:38 am
... You've hit a pet peeve of mine: wanting the dictionary definition of "agile" to apply to what we do. Discussing the characteristics of Agile software...
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acockburn@...
aacockburn
Feb 19, 2007 2:51 am
What I consider possibly more interesting is that apprenticeship learning has made a legitimate comeback ... starting from the MIT book "The Reflective ...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 19, 2007 3:00 am
... True. But if XP is a puma, and Scrum is a lynx then what your describing is a dog - or possibly a dolphin. Not necessarily a bad thing, of course, but...
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aacockburn
Feb 19, 2007 3:06 am
... profession, our ... surrounds it. ... centered ... Sounds like Sturgeon's law at work....
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 19, 2007 3:08 am
Hello, Brian. Hear, hear! On Sunday, February 18, 2007, at 9:38:43 ... Yes. Trademarked or not, Agile means something, and I think that professionals...
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Mark Schraad
mschraad333
Feb 19, 2007 4:44 am
No doubt about it....
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 19, 2007 5:44 am
... Of course you do. You helped write it. :) Kidding aside, can you tell me about some of the background for this method? How did it come about? What was the...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 19, 2007 9:06 am
... From my perspective the motivation was folk getting tired of software projects failing to deliver anything, or delivering the wrong product. Adrian...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Feb 19, 2007 12:28 pm
Hello, Robert. On Monday, February 19, 2007, at 12:44:25 AM, you ... Googling "agile snowbird" (without the quotes) returns a number of interesting articles,...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 19, 2007 2:43 pm
... I agree. The solution is not more theory, but rather more apprenticeship. Agile methods provide an ideal place for apprenticeship to take place, because...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 19, 2007 3:07 pm
... I'm not entirely sure that we have all the theory we need yet myself... Adrian...
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Jared M. Spool
jmspool
Feb 19, 2007 3:22 pm
... Will we ever? How will we know? Jared Jared M. Spool User Interface Engineering 510 Turnpike St., Suite 102, North Andover, MA 01845 e: jspool@... p:...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 19, 2007 3:34 pm
... That short! Wow! I had realised that you had forgotten to write the unit of time and had assumed you meant 1 1/2 days. Please do share your tactical advice...
