... How ... Suddenly, all that hard work feels worthwhile. I shall pass this onto the team, if I may. (Can I also please quote this in a blog post? I need to...
... been ... work. ... of ... the new ... Heh. I've worked in a couple of companies where - if you fixed the bug, you must have caused it in the first place ...
Hello, Kelly. On Friday, April 27, 2007, at 11:42:35 PM, you ... I wouldn't say that TDD is "optimized" for anything, though it might be "optimal" or "better"...
... I have the same problem, but it is a little different. I have resistance from experienced programmers that don't want to be attached to XP or Scrum or TDD...
... developers think about their roots and all the things they can't ... I wonder if that could be part of the problem. You try to *make* the developers think,...
... Well, as a matter of fact, I did never worked with Turbo Pascal (except a school project, lots of years ago). But my point was that there was no trace of...
rett, ... I had a discussion with my dad a few days ago in which he told me exactly the same thing and blamed my youth ;-) Ok, so I'll try to formulate a...
Gary, ... +1! I've got three years of work experience now, and the first question I asked myself was: Why is everybody complaining and nobody tries to change...
Dave, that is a great thought! Actually this is what I have to do most of the time when I'm working with teams that don't like to use a practice because of...
... I work at a small (6 programmers) XP Python shop in London. We recently advertised for interns to work with us this summer. We had lots of applicants,...
... IIRC Aberystwyth is the only university in the UK which teaches any of the Agile practices - there may be a second by now (?). Cheers, Liz. -- Elizabeth...
... Each year, the pressure increases in academia to do research that brings in funding. How to program is pretty much considered solved and not considered...
I've seen this opinion, that I "dialed down" XP in the second edition, several times. I acknowledge that people read the second edition as somehow "softer" and...
That's an interesting phenomenon. It sounds as if institutions become comfortable with what they believe they already know, and stop reassessing those things....
... To help the people stop complaining and act, stop complaining and act. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Don't confuse more exact with better. -- Brian...
... Yes. But most of formal methods research was trying to tackle exactly the same problems as XP and TDD. This was funny for me: there was lots of research...
... While there is some natural intertia/stagnation, in this particular case the bigger factors are: 1. the customer for research seeing more value in solving...
Ron, ... I do. And I mean the acting thing without the complaining. Right now I'm not sure it's enough. But I'll give it some time... Sometimes when people...
Hi Manuel, ... Consider running a Temperature Reading, a meeting in which you invite team members to express important stuff that often doesn't get expressed....
Hi Manuel, ... That's a marvelous insight. What have you tried so far to reduce complaints and increase action? Have you thought of but not tried (silly or...
It confused me too. Usually the resistance would be against the one or two practices that they didn't do. And yes, it was usually pairing. _____ From:...
On an announcement for our APL user group which told of a meeting about "Extreme Programming" the person doing the writeup mentioned that, as far has he could...
Elizabeth, Before I start into analysis, let me say that I do like the documentation technique and the naming conventions are lovely, though all the dross that...
geoffrey, I've posted a great deal of detail in other post, so you might want to look at my other posts in this thread. I can't imagine what more that you...
Steve, The most important thing that you said here was, "A major reason for this is that agile programming is about people not formal entities. The research...
John, I took my first computer course in '66 at U.T. Austin, and I could get 4 or 5 batch turn arounds a day, even there. By 1974, I had access to terminals on...
