Hello, My name is Sal Bruno. I am a program metrics coordinator for my company and joined this group to grow in my abilities and skills in producing leading ...
Nam Dao Xuan Thien
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Feb 1, 2007 1:18 pm
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On 1 Feb 2007, at 13:11, Nam Dao Xuan Thien wrote: [snip] ... [snip] ... [snip] To what use would I put my Productivity Index numbers? Adrian...
... you could play a game during your slack time, and see who is the closest to generating prime numbers, Fibonacci series, etc... Kevin P.S. :-) --...
... you could play a game during your slack time, and see who is the closest to generating prime numbers, Fibonacci series, etc... Kevin P.S. :-) --...
Hi Adrian, and anybody else, ... For the purpose of my following discussion, I would say the key word in the above statement is "I". Sal Bruno is asking a...
I currently work at a company that has a history of using xp. As people in the company have come and gone, the full use of xp has diminished. So I am looking...
This metric should not be labeled: "the productivity metric", it should be labeled: "estimation accuracy". Productivity is a measure of quantity of 'finished...
... What did the practices buy them, what didn't it buy them, and why did they let it drop? What do the people who used it and aren't using it say now? How...
... If continuous integration is good, anything that delays the integration is bad. I have never tried delaying integration in the way suggested [so discount...
Hello All, We have an agile shop here and I would like to hire people "biased" toward agile, I mean people who value comunication, colaboration and with good...
... XP "engages" in a company when the goal donor gets hooked the greater control and higher velocity. If those didn't happen, you might not have used enough...
... Good, useful advice from others, but let me provide the cynical perspective - it will not work. Unless you were hired specifically to return this group...
Check out "Joel on Software". He recommends "Auditions". Our shop has a four hour audition process that involves traditional "who we are, who are you" stuff,...
... Why bring it up XP at all? I'd just find something people are unhappy about, and then see if you all can fix it. Whether or not a particular practice is...
We've had some really good success with doing the regular interview type questions, but as a team for the 1st hour. So that's roughly 4 or 5 people in our...
FWIW I strongly agree with those who have suggested some form of audition to supplement the standard sort of interview. You can learn a lot by observing the...
... I particularly like the word "audition" here. I remember having some developers object to this technique while I was helping interview at a client site a...
I am experienced with all the practices having followed them for many years. The team was following all the xp practices in the past, but at some point in the...
Hello, Kevin. On Thursday, February 1, 2007, at 12:11:24 PM, you ... I could be wrong but it seems to me that continuous integration of code that doesn't work...
... The gold owner (not sure what a goal doner is), has changed over the last few years. There is no data to compare velocity from way back then, to now. Xp...
... Thanks for the great advice. I think this is a realistic point of view. The main reason xp was left behind, was due to one cto who was hired, who did not...
... about ... I agree I will not bring up xp at all. But there are some problems that can be easily solved by following some of the practices. The team has a...
My dev team has way too much support load. We currently change support rotation every week. That is -- one person handles production support for a whole...
At some point, customer issues that cannot be solved by front line support end up handled by the development team. We have a second line of support between the...
... Oh, I agree completely. I'm just suggesting you avoid saying, "let's go back to XP". Instead, next somebody complains about a missed date, just say, "I...
