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After reading Bob Walsh's description of how Agile techniques can't work for a micro ISV: "If you're going to successfully fire up your micro-ISV, you need to...
Tim Haughton
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Jul 1, 2007
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132765
Hi, I wondered if these levels might have come from some Agile flavour I am unfamiliar with. Clearly not :-( Adrian ... [Non-text portions of this message...
Adrian Mowat
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Hi Tim, Now here's a model for engaging with outsiders: pick someone whom you respect for their work in other areas, but who misunderstands XP. Seems like this...
Charlie Poole
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jerryyz wrote: [snip] I don't think any land to dig in the field of ... [snip] My acquaintance with profs says that interdisciplinary research interests many....
Larry Brunelle
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Jul 1, 2007
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Ron, sorry, I just can't resist: ... I always thought the design was done by the developer, not by the language ;-) I think it's very easy (at least for me) to...
Manuel Klimek
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Jul 1, 2007
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132769
... I said designs "in", not designs "by". :) ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Accept your conditions, but not your fate. -- Rod Walsh & Dan Carrison...
Ron Jeffries
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132770
George, thanks very much for these references. The links to the blog and the FAQ George mentioned are: http://www.agilecmmi.com/ http://cmmifaq.info/ As...
Michael Spayd
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Jul 1, 2007
4:39 pm
132771
Ron, ... I still do not get your point... I agree that it may be easier to code in Smalltalk than in C++ (though I don't have much experience with Smalltalk)....
Manuel Klimek
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Jul 1, 2007
5:26 pm
132772
... I can't resist, either. Both statements can easily be simultaneously true. Smalltalk designs are (generally) simpler than C++ designs, and it's possible to...
J. B. Rainsberger
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Jul 1, 2007
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... A simple example: when I extract an interface, C++ forces me to duplicate the method declaration in various header files. I have to declare the method in...
J. B. Rainsberger
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Jul 1, 2007
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132774
... features ... are ... Are you describing design as such or language-dependent implementation details? Dave...
Dave Nicolette
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Jul 1, 2007
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Joe, ... I don't agree that the example you come up with is not controversial. I admit that it introduces duplication, which is bad, but on the other hand it...
Manuel Klimek
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Hi Joe, ... AFAIK, all languages that use interfaces (C++, Java, C# for example) require you to "duplicate" the method declarations in the interface deinition...
Charlie Poole
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Jul 1, 2007
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... If the language forces me to write more code for the same design, that matters, no? -- J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger :: http://www.jbrains.ca Your guide to...
J. B. Rainsberger
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... From: "Michael Spayd" <michael.spayd@...> To: <extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [XP] CMMI...
John Roth
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Jul 1, 2007
6:08 pm
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... Manuel, I don't understand your reasoning here. I'm not talking about the difference between having an interface and not having an interface. I'm talking...
J. B. Rainsberger
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Jul 1, 2007
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Joe, ... My point is that decoupling makes the design simpler, too (at least for me), so decoupling is good. The decoupling of interface and implementation ...
Manuel Klimek
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Jul 1, 2007
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132781
... And, to be honest, many in the CMMI community, including many assessors. Hillel points out that it doesn't have to be that way. - George -- ... * George...
George Dinwiddie
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Jul 1, 2007
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... Ruby, ... duplicate ... removing ... designs ... It matters, yes. I just don't think it's a design question per se. Dave...
Dave Nicolette
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132783
... How would management know whether time reporting was proper? Curious, Ilja...
Ilja Preuss
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132784
... I am inclined to dispute the last half of that sentence. But as for "better" it surely depends on what we're trying to do. That said, my personal...
Ron Jeffries
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Jul 1, 2007
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132785
Ron, if you put me in a team of smart people who are striving to deliver high quality software they take pride in and from whom I can learn a lot, and if that...
Manuel Klimek
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Jul 1, 2007
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... Suppose in our design we wish to have two classes supporting some small set of methods, doX, doY, doZ. Suppose those two classes don't want to have a...
Ron Jeffries
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Jul 1, 2007
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... Yes. And my point is that the two designs are /different/. One includes two elements, class A and class B, and the other three, class A, class B, and...
Ron Jeffries
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Jul 1, 2007
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I suppose it's worth hashing out what we mean exactly by design for this discussion. I get the impression there is a notion, of "I drew these UML diagrams (or...
Forrest Chang
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Jul 1, 2007
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Well, as they are smart people, and they may define their own way to work, they certainly would define their way to work to not include programming in C++......
Ilja Preuss
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Jul 1, 2007
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132790
Hi, Would I be correct in saying that most developers who contribute to open-source software have an agile background? aidy...
aidy
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Jul 1, 2007
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... Just for the record youcan have the same 2 element design in C++ as well. I'm not sure that you willwant to go there, but you can. The point is that...
Lior Friedman
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Jul 1, 2007
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... A quick note first, not directed at Ron particularly. When you've tried languages like Erlang and Haskell, comparisons between Java, C# and Smalltalk start...
Laurent Bossavit
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Jul 1, 2007
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Or smalltalk, for that matter. haskell, anyone? ;-) ... -- http://klimek.box4.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Manuel Klimek
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