Maybe, you should target customers who have been burned by your "cheap" competitors and market the difference in your approach. Some things that might be...
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Paul Grew
paul_grew
Feb 28, 2006 1:52 pm
I've started to introduce the practice of pair programming to my team of 9 staff with mixed enthusiasm; however i'm keen that it will be a success as previous...
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Chris Smith
anotherchris...
Feb 28, 2006 2:04 pm
I thought I'd share our new build status lights with the group: http://i2.tinypic.com/orii5k.jpg This is a real, four foot high British traffic light, which is...
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Ilja Preuss
ipreussde
Feb 28, 2006 2:26 pm
Hi, certainly cool - we do have something similar, see the upper left photo at http://xp123.com/xplor/room-gallery/index.shtml We play a Star Trek "red alert"...
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Thierry Cros
tc2mar-xp@...
Feb 28, 2006 2:41 pm
pair programming : - first of all, i explain that PP needs to be.. explained (~1 hour) - some explanations about PP benefits (e.g. risk mitigation, quality...
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Ilja Preuss
ipreussde
Feb 28, 2006 3:01 pm
... There are some good ideas at http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/Etudes.htm#N84 Other than that, talk about it. Discuss what works and what not, and why, and...
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William Wake
wwake2
Feb 28, 2006 3:03 pm
... One little exercise I use I think of as "ping pong" - Sharon writes a test, Bob writes the code to makes it pass then writes the next test, then Sharon...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Feb 28, 2006 3:26 pm
... You'll definitely get nominated! We'll see who walks away with the award on that magic night ... good luck! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com You don't...
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yahoogroups@...
jhrothjr
Feb 28, 2006 3:28 pm
From: "Paolo Nusco Perrotta" <ml.at.paoloperrotta.com@...> To: "extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com" ...
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Ilja Preuss
ipreussde
Feb 28, 2006 3:40 pm
... You haven't seen our dragon-shaped lava lamps! (Unfortunately they weren't bright enough to be used as build indicators - it was hard to tell which one was...
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William Wake
wwake2
Feb 28, 2006 3:44 pm
On 2/25/06, Jim Standley <jimstandley@...> wrote: [painful sounding situation] ... Could you wedge in a logging layer of your own to let you pull out...
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Brandon Campbell
bjc1021
Feb 28, 2006 4:48 pm
... Agreed ... Absolutely. ... Actually in my experience with the shrink-wrapped software, and this is my first one, we are more like the second paragraph....
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David H.
bitchauctioneer
Feb 28, 2006 5:12 pm
... Hash: SHA1 ... How can they make a sane decision when they know _0_ about the technology deployed? I do agree with you that a Product Owner should not be a...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Feb 28, 2006 5:17 pm
... With any product, a lot of people are mysteriously happy to buy rank garbage if they can get it at 30% off. I can think of a few options while still...
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Rob Park
rpark68
Feb 28, 2006 5:24 pm
Just wanted to mention that we will be giving a presentation at the .NET SIG in Ft. Collins, CO on Monday, March 6th. The topics are NUnit Fundamentals and...
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Rob Park
rpark68
Feb 28, 2006 5:38 pm
Those are definitely way cool! .rob....
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
Feb 28, 2006 7:08 pm
I'd like to send the URL of that blog to a Korean friend of mine. Could you post the URL? ... -- C. Keith Ray ...
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Ian Collins
masumanz
Feb 28, 2006 8:49 pm
... Doesn't this start to get on your nerves after a while? I can see it being amusing at first, but all day every day? Ian...
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Amir Kolsky
kolsky
Feb 28, 2006 10:00 pm
I love it. Especially if you can turn the sounds off.... Amir Kolsky XP& Software...
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June Kim
junaftnoon
Feb 28, 2006 11:46 pm
... Yes, it's http://agile.egloos.com...
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June Kim
junaftnoon
Feb 28, 2006 11:49 pm
... Thanks. ... We have videotaped the audience playing emergence game but we are also afraid that publicizing the video file would infringe upon their ...
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Jeff Morgan
kuzman22
Mar 1, 2006 2:21 am
We have a "build deer" to inform us when the build turns red. The deer's arms flap for about 30 seconds. -Cheezy [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Edmund Schweppe
ed_schweppe
Mar 1, 2006 3:16 am
... An InterContinental Ballistic Whistle? Impressive. -- Edmund Schweppe President, Firepool Consulting, Inc. (978) 233-5404 -...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Mar 1, 2006 4:13 am
... I don't think I can /teach/ people much of anything. What I can do is to show them how I do things, tell them how other people of skill do things, invite...
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James Carr
jay_c_the_man
Mar 1, 2006 4:51 am
Hi, I just recently finished reading Object Design by by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Alan McKean (which I must point out is a great read on improving OO design)...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Mar 1, 2006 5:18 am
... Often a team may wish to do a "Quick Design Session" where they lay out a tentative design for something. They might do this by drawing UML on a...
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June Kim
junaftnoon
Mar 1, 2006 5:19 am
... Oh, CRC cards! They fit in XP very well. CRC cards can be used everyday and almost everywhere in XP projects. The scale may vary from single person to...
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Charlie Poole
cpoole98370
Mar 1, 2006 7:40 am
You obviously need a better acceptance test if your deer has arms. :-) Charlie...
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Ilja Preuss
ipreussde
Mar 1, 2006 7:41 am
... The sounds? No. In fact we discarded some early sounds that were too subtle. The feedback from the sound really is vital to us. In fact some of us even ...
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Ian Collins
masumanz
Mar 1, 2006 7:54 am
... I'm a little confused with this build status thing, how often do these builds happen? On my last project, our branch merge scripts would fail if any test...
