... problems that ... What does the word 'bug' mean to you? It's not a trick question, it does mean subtly different things to different people. ... fixes the ...
Thanks! I've also seen Kent's feedback on Time & Material basis, Kent's Optional Scope Contract article, Cyrus Innovation slides, user stories built for one...
Sridhar, Applying Slack and Pair Programming, I would be comfortable signing up for ~3 hours of tasks per day, assuming I didn't have lots of outside ...
John, I don't emphasize the divergence in agile development at Agile Alliance events because it doesn't feel safe for me to say, "XP is different"in that ...
Manish, The C3 project once went through all the defects found after code had been checked in and discovered that all of them had been introduced by people ...
Phlip, This sounds like the "XP is a recipe" metaphor to me. Since we are dealing with people, who are quite good at being good in surprising ways, I don't ...
... Whenever I found myself trying to explain why a bit of code wasn't as clear as it could be, I found it was less work to go clean up the code first then ...
Chris, The concept you are refering to below sounds like blame, not accountability. Whether I accept someone else's blame partly depends on whether I've given...
Kent, ... That would be Geoff and Emily Bache. Article here: http://www.carmen.se/research_development/articles/crtr0203.pdf They have a Web site up about the...
... Do you do that with a stick, or what? ;-> But seriously, sometimes it works on the boss. What then? ... And then? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Fear is...
... I have always seen debugging as an iterative process. You fix a bug and potentially find a bug/s. With TDD, (something I am just now getting my head ...
... Kent, As you probably know, it's my current view that, while the description of XP is more full and rich than the others, all the so-called "Agile" methods...
... I seen that. (Another factor was the lead programmer architected the system based on his last three big gigs, so there was no design to emerge. The ...
... Ron -- I invented that word back in 2003 to communicate the connection between tests and stories. I'm surprised you haven't run across it before --...
Hi, Kent! ... That's true, but I'm afraid I don't see the connection. Are you suggesting that one shouldn't write articles of the "XP Pathologies" form? I ask...
... That would be excellent. Likewise, if they're in the northern part of California, I'd be glad to stop by, gratis. I wonder if that's worth organizing more...
... [TTTO "Turn Turn Turn" by the Byrds] To every bug (churn churn churn) There is a reason (churn churn churn) And a source for every bug in the bugbase. A...
... "The first line of a program should 'hook' the computer, and make it 'care' about the program" --Dan Twedt -- Phlip http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZeekLand...
... John, Can you explain some more about what you see as the distinction between group process and project management? For me, I think of project management...
... I have run across it. I was reflecting on the advantages, and dis, of coining a new "word" rather than a phrase ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com 2 + 2...
... Hmm ... I would say that Beedle's terms apply to XP teams, and in fact to any collection of people, not just to Scrum ... It has seemed to me, sometimes,...
... Today, I consider it a "failure" if I need to use the debugger. I try to push a bit to find ways to find out what I need to know without it. Those ways...
