On 19 Feb 2007, at 18:17, Mark Schraad wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Personally I hope you, Brian and Richard stay around and carry on posting ;) Cheers, Adrian...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 20, 2007 10:19 am
On 19 Feb 2007, at 16:22, Desilets, Alain wrote: [snip] ... [snip] I think it does if you immediately start with a dozen developers. I find that everybody...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 20, 2007 10:19 am
... I believe "on spec" was in there somewhere - which has similar problems. Adrian...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 20, 2007 10:33 am
... I mean Robert of course - not Richard. (although I have no objections to Richard's either :-) Cheers, Adrian...
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Pascal Roy
pascal_roy_1967
Feb 20, 2007 1:28 pm
Alain, These numbers are actually pretty interesting when you start to think how success is actually defined.. My impression is that if you ask developpers,...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 20, 2007 2:10 pm
On 20 Feb 2007, at 13:27, Pascal Roy wrote: [snip] ... [snip] My experience is that developers have a very good idea of the number of software projects that...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 20, 2007 8:12 pm
... I feel the same. Alain...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 20, 2007 8:31 pm
I looked rapidly at the text of the report: http://www.standishgroup.com/sample_research/chaos_1994_1.php And this is what I found: "31.1% of projects will be...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 20, 2007 9:50 pm
... I think that's true in the sense that an initial vision will have more impact if the team is large. But I pretty much work exclusively on small teams...
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Dean Morrow
dmorrow6
Feb 21, 2007 5:00 pm
... agile in ... Sure, it's not adhering to specific practices, but isn't that a major point of agile? "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" ...
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 21, 2007 5:34 pm
... I agree. I think if you read the manifesto all by itself, and ignore all the things that have apparently been standardized in its name, it accommodates a ...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 21, 2007 5:49 pm
Hi Robert, Glad to see you haven't given up on the list in spite of recent frictions (which are always normal in a forum with so many smart and passionate...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 21, 2007 6:38 pm
Thinking again of the CHAOS definition of success/failure (on-time, on-budget, and, not sure if this one is really part of it, on-specs), I realized that this...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 22, 2007 9:31 am
On 21 Feb 2007, at 18:36, Desilets, Alain wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Most non-profits I've worked for tend to be pretty interested in ROI too :-) Cheers, Adrian...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 22, 2007 10:18 am
Hi Robert, Thanks for sticking with us annoying folk :-) On 21 Feb 2007, at 17:27, Robert Hoekman, Jr. wrote: [snip] ... [snip] You might also want to poke at...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 22, 2007 11:35 am
... Right. Even not-for-profit orgs want to get something out of their investment. I was referring more to the ROI *metric* as it is usually expressed in terms...
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Dean Morrow
dmorrow6
Feb 22, 2007 4:32 pm
... on-budget, and, not sure if this one is really part of it, on-specs), I realized that this definition is fundamentally not applicable to agile projects....
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Robert Hoekman, Jr.
rhoekmanjr
Feb 22, 2007 4:52 pm
... I don't ramble on about having UX skills spread across the team ... Adrian, I respect your opinion and I believe you've done great things through Agile...
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Jared M. Spool
jmspool
Feb 22, 2007 6:58 pm
... Yes. It's the un-profitable organizations I've dealt with that seem to show no interest in ROI. Jared...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 22, 2007 7:14 pm
... You raise two interesting point. One is the the notion that "It's projects over time that is statistically significant for an individual organization"....
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Dean Morrow
dmorrow6
Feb 22, 2007 9:29 pm
... Yes, that was overstated. I was thinking along the line of continuously evolving. Projects end (good), but no change => stagnant => dead. Dean...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Feb 23, 2007 10:18 am
... Ohhh... you don't want to go respecting my opinion. I'm often extremely stupid :-) ... Maybe that's because different folk have different interpretations...
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Alexander Johannesen
shelterit
Feb 23, 2007 10:42 am
... I just got back from another planet, it seems, so pardon me for asking dumb questions, but what *did* you expect? I myself do a lot of agile UX (note,...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 23, 2007 3:46 pm
... Overstating happens to me all the time ;-). I agree with you. A project should always be evolving, and a team should always be learning, both within the...
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acockburn@...
aacockburn
Feb 23, 2007 3:51 pm
<<How do we in Agile define and measure project success?>> The companies I visit that are doing well with their agile work style do not measure success on a...
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PaulOldfield1@...
pauloldfield1
Feb 24, 2007 12:57 pm
(responding to Jeff) Sorry I'm late, just catching up on my mail backlog... Saw this and just had to jump in. ... Strongly agreed. I recall the first time I...
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Desilets, Alain
alain_desilets
Feb 26, 2007 12:29 am
... style do not measure ... the development pool, ... work-styles, trying a bit ... ones, they have a ... money they are pumping ... business value than ... ...
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Alan Cyment
acyment
Feb 28, 2007 1:54 am
Hi everyone out there! Anyone interested in an interaction design + usability job in an agile development project in Costa Rica? Do write me! Cheers, Alan...
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Lacroix, Eric
eric.lacroix
Feb 28, 2007 9:26 pm
Hi, Does someone has ever has this kind of issue regarding the management of those items (ToolBar Items, Menu Items and Contextual menu Items) for a specific...
