... That approach may be suitable in some circumstances, but personally I am a proponent of the opposite approach (switching to full XP all of a sudden), when ...
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Dominic Williams
xpdoka
Dec 1, 2004 9:21 am
... Very much. Although I personally lack them in varying degrees, I have great respect for some of the qualities I think are required of salespeople: social...
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Brad Appleton
bradapp1
Dec 1, 2004 9:38 am
... I used to do so religiously as well, and was the author of the humorous but serious wiki page <http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TrimYourPosts>; Also see...
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Brad Appleton
bradapp1
Dec 1, 2004 10:09 am
... Interesting question. I actually had a conversation about this with David Anderson (author of "Agile Management", also see http://www.agilemanagement.net)....
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Chris Dollin
eccentric_he...
Dec 1, 2004 10:52 am
... I'm not doing XP (wish we were) but trying to incorporate XP practices esp TDD and would be interested in a SIG. Might well be able to offer meeting space...
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Tony Byrne
tony_j_byrne
Dec 1, 2004 11:24 am
Hello Matthew, ... MS> How long did you spend with them? Did you feel it was an appropriate length MS> of time? I think I spent around 90 minutes or so in...
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Anthony Williams
anthony_w.geo
Dec 1, 2004 11:43 am
... Posts with the signature at the top are even more confusing than top-posts --- my mailer (gnus/XEmacs) treated this entire message as part of the sig...
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Anthony Williams
anthony_w.geo
Dec 1, 2004 11:53 am
... I noticed that you had started top posting, and wondered whether you'd changed mailer. It seems that you have been top-posting all replies, and not just ...
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Israel Antezana
israelantezana
Dec 1, 2004 12:06 pm
I really agree with you Steven Steven Gordon <sagordon@...> wrote: "MDA will never be as flexible and malleable as textual code"?? Is C++ less flexible and...
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Anthony Williams
anthony_w.geo
Dec 1, 2004 12:08 pm
... Yes. I don't know how come it worked when I tested it (I cut/pasted the URL from my browser), but it certainly doesn't now... The # breaks it (of course). ...
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Israel Antezana
israelantezana
Dec 1, 2004 12:22 pm
Steven, The ONME software is not a demo tool its a commercial tool ready to be used. But there is a demo about how to use this tool on its website...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 1, 2004 12:37 pm
... I think the record will show that I quickly went back to doing some in the format Ron's posting Ron's sig ... quotes and some in the format (quotes ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 1, 2004 12:42 pm
There's a discussion on the Scrum group right now that seems to me to relate to the top-posting one we're having here, especially in the light of the...
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Dale Emery
dalehemery
Dec 1, 2004 12:54 pm
Hi Ron, ... I get the feeling that there's something important that you're almost saying here, or almost asking. I can't quite see what that important thing...
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Jonas Karlsson
sngrfxz
Dec 1, 2004 1:13 pm
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:42:12 -0500, Ron Jeffries ... Perhaps the needs of the community has outgrown the capabilities of a mailing list. How about a site...
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Jonas Karlsson
sngrfxz
Dec 1, 2004 1:14 pm
I just wanted to say a quick thanks to all those who responded to my question about Barry Boehm. It turns out he won't give his talk until end of January /...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 1, 2004 1:18 pm
... I'm just describing the part of the iceberg that I presently see through the fog. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com The central "e" in "Jeffries"; is silent...
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Chris Dollin
eccentric_he...
Dec 1, 2004 1:38 pm
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 12:42, Ron Jeffries wrote: [snips] ... I like your distinction between essay and conversation. It seems to me that one reads...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Dec 1, 2004 1:51 pm
I agree. A different way to make it incremental is to just convert one team doing one project or subproject. Adjusting XP to the business processes and...
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Matthew Snyder
snyder3112
Dec 1, 2004 1:55 pm
... We actually were exposed to this stuff in college during Saturday classes that were attended by post-grad IT professionals (whom were working on furthering...
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Ben Hogan
benhogan1984
Dec 1, 2004 3:06 pm
Thanks for your reply Alistair, I agree that the DeMarco experiment is not enough draw any conclusions from. It would be nice if there was data on the effect...
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aacockburn
Dec 1, 2004 4:07 pm
... Hi, Dominic, Permit me to replay a bit of my long posting: <<it is normal for humans to keep doing things that don't work, and gladly sacrifice efficiency...
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aacockburn
Dec 1, 2004 4:32 pm
... One the one hand, I suspect a metaphor is by definition only a suggestion. One the other hand, I propose "sw dev as a cooperative game" as an economic and...
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Gunjan Doshi
doshi_gunjan
Dec 1, 2004 5:14 pm
We are currently facing the same situation. We are actively looking to hire XP programmers. We placed an ad in Dice, Hotjobs etc. for XP programmers. We also...
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
Dec 1, 2004 5:15 pm
... A good start on all three is attending AYE "Amplifying Your Effectiveness" <http://www.ayeconference.com/> I really regret not going to it this year; I...
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Luiz Esmiralha
lesmiralha
Dec 1, 2004 5:19 pm
... I find this absolutely wonderful. Any ideas for good example projects? It should be something complex enough to demonstrate analytical skills and simple...
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Steve Berczuk
berczuk
Dec 1, 2004 5:40 pm
This is interesting, though I am not sure if the point is that Top Posts and inline posts serve different purposes of that the raising the issue of top-posts...
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Stede Troisi
stedetro
Dec 1, 2004 6:14 pm
I was thinking about YAGNI yesterday. Normally, I see most people create a customer class that holds domain information and another class, say CustomerDb that ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 1, 2004 6:28 pm
... I like to consider issues like these by looking at the code. Have you some code we could look at, simplified, perhaps? Ideally with tests? Ron Jeffries ...
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Ramon Leon
gnaritas2002
Dec 1, 2004 6:30 pm
YouArentGonnaNeedIt is only one of many principles, you have to balance it with the others. OnceAndOnlyOnce and DoSimpleThings will lead you to making sure...
