... 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 ...
... 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...
... Interesting question. I actually had a conversation about this with David Anderson (author of "Agile Management", also see http://www.agilemanagement.net)....
... 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...
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...
... 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...
... 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 ...
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...
... 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). ...
... 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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 /...
... 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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
... I find this absolutely wonderful. Any ideas for good example projects? It should be something complex enough to demonstrate analytical skills and simple...
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...
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 ...
... 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 ...
YouArentGonnaNeedIt is only one of many principles, you have to balance it with the others. OnceAndOnlyOnce and DoSimpleThings will lead you to making sure...
