(Cross-posted) When: September 8th, 2009 Where: iCrossing, Black Lion Street, Brighton (Map) Time: 6:30 pm - Cost: £ free Details:...
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rob_hathaway74
Sep 2, 2009 6:28 am
The UK Lean & Kanban conference is taking place in London over 3 days from the 27th to the 29th September. It will be a fantastic event. It is very different...
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Anders Ramsay
andersramsay
Sep 2, 2009 1:17 pm
Great video of Jeff Patton doing a story mapping session with David Hussman at Agile 09. http://is.gd/2NIBc...
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sigbackup
sigfrid_sw_e...
Sep 3, 2009 6:20 am
Very interesting. thanks for the link. Have a good 1!...
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rob_hathaway74
Sep 5, 2009 12:05 pm
All, Due to an increasing number of requests I'm putting out a call for people to submit papers to be put into a Lean & Kanban booklet that will be available...
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hughrbeyer
Sep 5, 2009 3:32 pm
Hi guys -- I've been following this group irregularly, but haven't participated much--I'll try to be better about that. I came away from Agile 09 with lots of...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Sep 5, 2009 5:35 pm
Hello, hughrbeyer. On Saturday, September 5, 2009, at 11:32:13 ... Generally speaking, refactoring doesn't count as a user story. I teach teams to keep...
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Scott Preece
sepreece
Sep 5, 2009 9:56 pm
Does TDD teach that refactoring is just the last step in developing a piece of code? scott...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Sep 5, 2009 10:43 pm
Hello, Scott. On Saturday, September 5, 2009, at 5:55:42 PM, you ... TDD includes a refactoring step, but it's not the only time one would refactor. Ron...
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jonathan berger
jonathanpberger
Sep 5, 2009 11:49 pm
... Ok, great, sure, you've got a very orthodox view of agile, and that's cool. I buy that. But the question I struggle with is this: where does design fit in?...
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abbas.noura@...
omalnour2000
Sep 5, 2009 11:49 pm
Dear All, My name is Noura and I'm researching the impact of agile methods on software quality and customer satisfaction. As part of the research I'm running...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Sep 6, 2009 12:06 am
... Not everything you do has to be a story. Design? Design is something you should do all the time. Every time you touch the code, you should think about...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Sep 6, 2009 12:15 am
Hi, Hugh. Interesting question. ... I encourage people not to account for all those other tasks. My default position is that teams should only count things...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 6, 2009 12:28 am
the planning session should be a negotiation that results in a sprint plan of the most viable, valuable stories in the backlog. Teams that do not enter into a...
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Ron Jeffries
ronaldejeffries
Sep 6, 2009 1:14 am
Hello, jonathan. On Saturday, September 5, 2009, at 5:53:05 PM, ... and ... ... With those in mind ... could you rephrase your question? Ron Jeffries ...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Sep 6, 2009 3:31 am
... Design is a pervasive concern. As George says, teams should do design all the time. In fact, teams are doing design all the time. The choice isn't between...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Sep 6, 2009 7:27 am
... Which particular meaning of "design" are we talking about here? The "design" of the code (class hierarchies, etc.)? Or "design" in the big- D / product...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Sep 6, 2009 7:35 am
... Personally I find user stories that just focus on UX improvements a little bit of a personal red flag. Like refactoring cards they're a sign that we've...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Sep 6, 2009 7:41 am
... I think the UX element has two sides just like everything else. There is the customer feedback/market research aspect, which is primarily a business...
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Biju vv
biju_v_v
Sep 6, 2009 12:23 pm
My team is in the process of writing user stories. UxD team member is part of the team and is going to interact with PO to come with Wireframes. The...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Sep 6, 2009 12:50 pm
Keep in mind that viability is not limited to quantitative quality control measures. Design and usability (to a great extent) defies precision and fits best...
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jonathan berger
jonathanpberger
Sep 6, 2009 4:16 pm
Lots of great feedback! To clarify, my question has more to do with the integration of a dedicated (UX) designer on an agile team. I _am_ that designer, I have...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Sep 6, 2009 8:02 pm
... I'd like to hear some stories about that. I suspect I'm not envisioning the same situations that you are. ... On the other hand, I've seen stories grow...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Sep 6, 2009 8:12 pm
... Ah - the old classic of "design" meaning completely different things to different folk (I really must hone that ranty "ban the word 'design'" lightning...
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Hassan Schroeder
laughingandj...
Sep 6, 2009 8:28 pm
... Or between designing consciously and designing unconsciously, the latter being fairly close to "not designing" :-) -- Hassan Schroeder...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Sep 6, 2009 8:48 pm
... The best practice is probably not to do wireframes. Or, at least, to spend very little time on very basic wireframes and let the design evolve over time. ...
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Hugh Beyer
hughrbeyer
Sep 8, 2009 1:24 am
Golly. Take a labor day holiday and see what happens. Some thoughts in response to your very insightful thinking: Ron: Some forms of user research, it seems to...
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Hugh Beyer
hughrbeyer
Sep 8, 2009 1:37 am
... My team is in the process of writing user stories. UxD team member is part of the team and is going to interact with PO to come with Wireframes. The...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Sep 8, 2009 2:32 am
Great reply, Hugh. A few thoughts: ... I don't think either of those is necessarily the case in teams that are running well. I'm not opposed to doing tasks,...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Sep 8, 2009 2:38 am
... Most of the teams I work with have one system for tracking work: stories. To execute each story, you do just enough work (design, development, testing,...
