Hi Kim, I get the sense that your comment implies a BDUF mindset insofar as it sounds as if you see the value of customer involvement as a way to ensure the...
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Mike Vizdos
mikev_work
Jun 3, 2008 12:07 pm
.... Pretend. Correct? Good point. Sad. But true. Thank you, Mike On Jun 2, 2008, at 11:34 PM, "J. B. Rainsberger" ... [Non-text portions of this message...
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Doug Swartz
gruverguy
Jun 3, 2008 11:43 am
... Bill Wake's XP Radar Chart is a starting place for #1: http://xp123.com/xplor/xp0012b/index.shtml -- Doug Swartz daswartz@......
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Dmitry Kandalov
exault3d
Jun 3, 2008 10:01 am
... I read both of them. They are quite similar. I'd choose C# edition because it has several chapters on using UML and later edition is supposed to be better ...
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Kim Gräsman
kimgrasman
Jun 3, 2008 9:14 am
Chet, On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Chet Hendrickson ... I wonder if the necessity of having the customer available 100% declines as the rest of the team...
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Martin Lechner
mlechner@...
Jun 3, 2008 7:17 am
I dont ask you to fill out one!! (I have read that questionaires are not welcomed by all ;) I am searching a questionaire for usage in an XP course. It should...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Jun 3, 2008 3:36 am
... One visit per iteration might be enough if we almost always deliver what we think we're delivering and what the customer wants when we deliver it. If not,...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Jun 3, 2008 3:34 am
... 1. Many companies pretend that agile is "what the programmers do". 2. I believe the large companies find it easy to do this, even though... 3. Some small...
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Gary Brown
gb70840
Jun 3, 2008 12:48 am
... From: "J. B. Rainsberger" <jbrains762@...> To: <extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 3:57 PM Subject: Re: [XP] How do we...
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Ant Grinyer
ant8724
Jun 2, 2008 10:43 pm
Hi all, I sent a call for participation to the group last week with respect to a short (5-10mins)online survey I am conducting for doctoral and practitioner...
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Chet Hendrickson
suechet
Jun 2, 2008 10:25 pm
Hello Joe, You are, of course, correct. There are a lot of reasons for short iterations. I wanted to take the opportunity to get people to remember why we...
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John Carter
refactored
Jun 2, 2008 9:19 pm
... Aha! Ok, got it. Thanks for a good reply. Curiously enough when I do Design by Contract, I don't use any DbC tool except "assert" macros (or what useful...
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Joseph Little
jhlittle1
Jun 2, 2008 9:09 pm
David, My experiences in inv bkg/trdaing are very similar. The world you describe is quite real (for those who don't have that experience). You'll see real...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Jun 2, 2008 8:59 pm
... I could see rolling those tactical solutions into strategies ones. I use the analogy of exploratory testing: we build a system, a skilled tester tests it,...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Jun 2, 2008 8:57 pm
... In that case, I'll rephrase: I conjecture the problem is related to the company's size, although I doubt its size causes the problem. I believe, but have...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Jun 2, 2008 8:56 pm
... That cause exists, but I have also seen the same problem exist when the Director of Software Development has decreed "we shall be agile", but his sphere of...
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Julian Hall
julescov
Jun 2, 2008 8:25 pm
... interesting. Many refactorings change pre and post conditions for the methods they are applied to. When those conditions are specified as part of a unit ...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Jun 2, 2008 6:42 pm
... I didn't know about oDesk until eight seconds ago when I googled it for the first time. Interesting. I've been using elance.com. I have signed up at oDesk...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Jun 2, 2008 6:39 pm
... A true story. The last time this happened to a team I worked with, they had being demoing their work every two weeks on Friday afternoon. They told me they...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Jun 2, 2008 6:35 pm
... I think it depends, Chet, on why we iterate. Some teams iterate for selfish reasons, rather than because of a relationship with the customer; they iterate...
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Carfield Yim
c8133594
Jun 2, 2008 5:57 pm
... That is one point of view, sit with trader and provide "tactical"; solutions can be agile, but it also can be cowboy type of adhoc coding, I bet those...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Jun 2, 2008 5:15 pm
Hi Matt, ... Well spotted. ... I'm in contact with one (maybe two) already; I would definitely welcome more folks representing that constituency. One upcoming...
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Jonathan Rasmusson
rasmus4200
Jun 2, 2008 4:08 pm
Hey Bill, Great post (I agree with much of what you said). Good to see you back. I sure enjoyed reading all your posts way back when. Hope all is well - sounds...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jun 2, 2008 3:41 pm
... I have seen the same assumption made in many top-down adoptions where management brings in agile because they believe their major problem is that the...
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Cory Foy
cory_foy
Jun 2, 2008 3:37 pm
... I'd be happy to disprove your conjecture over a drink next time we're in the same town, since I'm seeing it right now in a company of less than 100 people....
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Steve Freeman
smg_freeman
Jun 2, 2008 3:03 pm
... that's probably easier than changing one of the existing ones... S. Steve Freeman http://www.mockobjects.com Winner of the Agile Alliance Gordon Pask award...
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David Peterson
dpeterson72
Jun 2, 2008 2:52 pm
I think you're right that a lot of companies do assume that "agile" only affects programmers and that's potentially a big issue. Maybe it stems from ...
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Matt
maswaffer
Jun 2, 2008 2:24 pm
Cory, ... any ... proven ... This brings up an interesting point... all of the threads on the WeVouchFor thing have focused on two groups: 1) Those being...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jun 2, 2008 2:10 pm
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Chet Hendrickson ... Alternatively, if your customer is only showing up once a month, shortening your iteration from a month to...
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Andrew Chen
homeofchen
Jun 2, 2008 2:09 pm
Ron, ... When a project manager searches for a development team, if he doesn't know much about agile, nor particular agile person, then one agile person...
