... do here with "mix" and "fit". You're right, I suppose I dont have a problem with them if they make sense [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... Yes, that's definitely the focus. From what I remember, it strongly implied a document-driven waterfall process. ... Yes. I did say this story took place...
... One of my favorite sigs seems to me to be apropos here, from Mary Doria Russell, in her marvelous book /The Sparrow/: Wisdom begins when we discover the...
... But the phrase is "individuals and interactions over processes and tools". If isn't "individuals over interactions" or "individuals over structure". So the...
Penny, Thanks for that link to the vector.org article! It's very well-written and I just couldn't stop reading once I started. Seems like they've gone beyond...
Thanks for implying I dont understand. You reiterated in 100 lines what I did in 4 in my previous post, thanks again but I've already got it. What I was...
I am working with a team that is developing telecom applications in C++. So far, we're doing Scrum with user stories and plan to start adding in the core XP...
... Great ... ... What makes you think that your costs would increase through using XP? Can you think of things about XP that might increase costs? Can you...
Talking with my wife about "solving problems for people" versus "solving technical problems". In the early days of computer engineering / computer science,...
"The basic idea with offshoring is probably the lower cost per month of programmers. What is the impact of offshoring on the cost of doing a specific project?...
... XP? Can you think of things about XP that might increase costs? Can you think of things that would decrease costs? Question 1: I stated that costs can rise...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone here who has implemented XP in their own teams has had problems with their developers testing skills. Any stories of introducing...
C++ isn't that much different than C# and Java -- language-wise. It's slower to compile than Java, and has fewer tools (refactoring and others). There are...
Hi, Sometime ago I think that Ron stated that in XP there's no role called "Architect". However, in the second edition Kent describes this role. In fact, he ...
Zen masters could get away with rapping their students on their head with a stick, but again they have permission to do so because of the student-master...
... Ah, OK. That's very, very far from ideal. ... Is there ever a circumstance when the rest of the team, the cutomer, and you are all in the same place at the...
... I think that's going in the list. Thanks! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com The man happy in his work is not the narrow specialist, nor the well-rounded...
... I would think that costs like the ones you list would remain roughly constant whether a team did XP or not, though they will of course change over time. So...
... Well that's a pretty good summary of my last project! We used CppUnit as our unit test framework, which worked well. As has already been mentioned, there...
... Well, I'm about a year and a half into a pseudo-XP project that's embedded C++. "Psuedo" in that that it's a two-person team, so we _can't_ switch off...
... The only thing worth mentioning that I can think of relates to the tools. If the team is completely new to TDD, I think I'd almost certainly start with...
My apologies if this has already been posted, but I hadn't seen it in the messages I'd read. Jeff Sutherland has a blog entry and related paper on the "World's...
... I must admit I've never use CPPUnit-Lite, but it's quite simple to stick with a small subset of CPPUnit without too much fluff. Our testers, who had just...
... the sum of the salaries of the people on the project, times the time involved, times a small constant larger than one. That sounds small to me, I would...
... Figures would be good. But the small constant larger than one isn't necessarily 1.03, it could be close to two. I would be surprised to see the /real/ cost...
... something that worked for you. it didn't work for me, it may have worked for others, however I graciously accept your apology. [Non-text portions of this...
... in C++. ... adding in the ... Refactoring, Pair ... C++. Any ... their ... applications? ... The main problem with C++ is that refactoring can be slower...
... 6 person collocated team == X productivity == 56 person distributed team so a person on the distributed team was 6/56 ( 0.107 ) times as productive as one ...
the PDF paper references a waterfall versus scrum statistic: The waterfall team took 9 months with 60 people and generated 54000 lines of code. It was...
On a side note, is it necessary to use C++ for this project or perhaps for most of its subsystems? My last real job (before becoming a consultant ;) ) was at a...
