... Usual "I don't understand Agile therefore I'll bash it" crap. "C3 was cancelled, therefore XP is a failure." Rubbish. However, there was one interesting...
It's getting a bit of press too... http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/28/1242257&from=rss There's an old saying... listen to your enemies....
... Why do people automatically take sides and suddenly we are on "teams" with enemies (granted, his blog was inflammatory). I know a lot of people here may...
... ???? I never said anyone was anyone's enemy... it's just a pithy saying. ;) I assumed people here would infer the principal... listen to those who...
... No, I don't think you should have. I think the readers should breathe deeply 3 times before pressing Ctrl+R. I only needed 10 years to learn that lesson. ...
Hello Paul, thanks for sharing your ideas. On Thursday, September ... My goal is to have fun. What's yours? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com War remains the...
Hello Paul, thanks for the thoughts quoted here. On Thursday, ... A worthy goal. What will it give you to find that? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com One test...
... From what I understand you do things to reach a goal and the goal is what you receive when you obtain it. Many people may share the same goal with...
Hello Paul, thanks for your note. On Friday, September 29, 2006, at ... I don't think XP has a goal. I don't even think XP is a "thing", much less a thing that...
The guy seems the think that anyone who conducts seminars, workshops, training, etc., is evil and whatever they are teaching is also evil. I know some of those...
Hello Keith, thank you for writing. On Thursday, September 28, 2006, ... You are completely right in this instance, and in all other instances where you say...
... [snip] I'm sure this is true - and a lot of those lovely people are on this list. Unfortunately I think that there are a /lot/ more really, really dodgy...
... I'm soliciting volunteers to write a bot that translates Slashdot forum verbiage into wise advise. Tip: The more they scream about something, the more the...
... I think that about 90% of the people screwed up Structured Programming and Object-Oriented Programming and RUP and XP and TDD and just about every other...
... Much of the "Bad Agile" part is, sure. But I think there's interesting stuff to be learned from the "Good Agile" part. In particular, the following...
There were some other things I found interesting: "Another incentive is that every quarter, without fail, they have a long all-hands in which they show every...
... My thoughts were along this same line. It is great and everything that he is so psyched to work at Google, but does that really make the rest of the world...
... Isn't Industrial Logic the company that taught Google XP? Chris. -- Chris Wheeler chriswheeler.blogspot.com coach, programmer & practitioner [Non-text...
Process is process, arguably unable to carry characteristics or labels like good, bad, etc. People, however, and their application of a process, can certainly...
(responding to Dave) ... So, what did the other 10% do? Did they inspect but find they never needed to adapt? Did they finish all the stories on the backlog?...
... I suspect two things: 1) That the 90% number was pulled out of thin air. 2) That, regardless of the actual percentage, IT'S THE PEOPLE STUPID!! :) Good...
Ken Schwaber said in a recent presentation: If you get a team of crap people and you use Scrum, they will ... ... produce crap software. But at least you know...
No no....this is said pretty well! :-) _____ From: extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com [mailto:extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark Striebeck ...
(responding to Dave) ... Probably, given the laxity of the surrounding sentence. ... Hmm... so that 90% would be ... poor ... anyway? Doesn't matter which...
Hello Paul, thanks for sharing your ideas. On Thursday, September ... Here's an offer. I'll come in and work with any interested Google team for a week. If...
Ron, I might take you up on this if you find a way to work with "non-interested" teams here? We have many teams here who are using some type of agile ...
Hello Mark, thank you for sharing your thoughts. On Thursday, ... Well, I do have some rather interesting sessions where I describe Agile as I understand it,...
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