Our team is starting to "sell" Agile to upper management. The meetings have been positive but skeptical. The first feedback we received is a request for case...
Todd, My advise is to: 1.Get upper management to agree on the existence of a few specific problems that if resolved would make the change to agile worth the ...
Hello, Steven. On Monday, December 3, 2007, at 1:41:52 PM, you ... I share this view. In many cases, the request for a case study really means "go away, bring...
At http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/proof.htm I have an article entitled Answering the Question "Where's the Proof that Agile Works" which may give you some...
Hi Todd, Can you tell us a bit about your normal corporate software development process? Is it very formal? Maybe this is your chance to experiment with some...
... manner, ... Thank you for the responses. I hesitate to propose a pilot project for two reasons. First, we have no other software projects in the queue,...
... If management thinks that the corporate process is performing well, then there is no way to establish agile top-down. You might be able to estalbish some...
Hello Todd, It seems the answer to my question about the formality of your corporate software development process is "Yes". Frankly I am not surprised....
... Not all marriages succeed or should succeed. If the "predictability-oriented approach" is actually achieving stability, quality and predictability, then by...
... Exactly. ... Doh! Reality now comes into the picture. ... Exactly. Sadly, it appears that the "predictability" of traditional approaches proves to be...
Hello, halt00. On Thursday, December 6, 2007, at 7:39:11 AM, you ... What I was trying to ask, and ask again now, was what you wanted to have happen, and why...
... Point them at http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/changeManagement.htm where I think that I've got a good description of how stakeholders have control over...
Responding to Scott Ambler: When Todd (halt00) wrote: "> 1) When shown the agile stack of requirements/priority they asked when ... ... You wrote: "Point them...
... <snip> ... Actually, I've found that when people are struggling to understand a new way of working that they like to have external material to look at....
see inline ... when ... Sadly, I can't use such responses to senior management. ... specs, etc ... Sadly, I can't use such responses to senior management. ... ...
... well. ... My apologies, I thought I answered that in my first paragraph. We would like to adopt Agile as we see the many benefits it has to offer - it...
Hello, halt00. On Monday, December 10, 2007, at 9:54:16 AM, you ... Why not? How do you know you can't? ... Why not? How do you know you can't? ... How do you...
Hello, halt00. On Monday, December 10, 2007, at 9:57:17 AM, you ... Ah. Agile isn't about what you /don't/ do. It is about what you do. Are you constrained...
... Also, what's stopping you from looking into it? Can you talk with your end users and find out what they like and don't like? Perhaps you can talk with ...
Todd, Agility is not a purely technical subject. In my opinion, the human interactions required to develop something appropriately in a dynamic business...
There are several aspects to the question regarding case studies that should be considered. Usually when folks are asking for them, they at some level want to...
I've developed a tool to produce diagrams from .NET assemblies that I believe will be useful to the Agile process. Here's a link to my discussion about...
roger.bruvold
lumikon@...
Dec 13, 2007 7:08 am
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I've developed a tool to produce diagrams from .NET assemblies that I believe will be useful to the Agile process. Here's a link to my discussion about...
roger.bruvold
lumikon@...
Dec 13, 2007 7:08 am
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Hello, roger.bruvold. On Wednesday, December 12, 2007, at 8:29:58 ... Link doesn't work. Appears to need a .com or .org or .ru or .something Ron Jeffries ...
I cannot find a firm statement of what platform Lumikon works on and which languages it can process, althought I get the feeling it is C# or perhaps all of...
At the download page it says; "LumiCode requires Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0. and will run on any Windows(R) operating system that supports the .NET...
Roger, assuming the tool works as expected, it's a neat idea. In addition to documentation, it may be useful for high-level debugging since it should reflect...