HI How to measure project progress when executing a project using an Agile methodology. This may seem a question from someone who is trying to migrate from...
There is the initial project design game, and then quite frequently (daily, or weekly, or biweekly) the functional requirements for the next development cycle...
From my experience Matrix Orgs are put into place because they are easier to control and understand by Sr. Management - they follow the McDonald's structure of...
... At first I thought we were talking about the difficulty in writing and testing a web mail application like gmail. But since none of these test cases have...
... End-to-end tests do not exert enough positive pressure on design decisions to help me see opportunities to improve the design, which explains why I write...
... Matt, I'd never thought about this distinction before. I really, really like it. This provides another Competent-level rule on whether to write an isolated...
... Rakesh, I imagine others will give you great ideas about what to measure; however, I'd like to ask you your question slightly differently: You've chosen to...
... Yes, but then you call it "test-driven development", which it clearly is not. Why confuse people? -- J. B. (Joe) Rainsberger :: http://www.jbrains.ca Your...
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Seyit Caglar Abbasoglu ... I have never used agile practices on a project needing 10k function points. I can't imagine a single...
Hello, J.. On Saturday, November 1, 2008, at 5:16:36 PM, you ... I think most complexity is created by poor design. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com ...
... How often do they ship code to the QA environment now? Could they do it twice as frequently? If they cut the time between shipments in half for each...
... If you don't want to force teams to push their shipments to QA, can you encourage the consumers of those shipments to demand more frequent shipments? -- J....
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Ron Jeffries ... Full agreement. Maybe you misinterpreted my words. Not /all/ complexity is accidental. Eventually, no matter...
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:15 PM, J. B. Rainsberger <jbrains762@...>wrote: This provides another Competent-level rule on whether ... Am I oversimplifying...
I've worked with teams where extensive storytests have happened to reduce the need for unit tests, and the storytests alone have provided high coverage of the...
... Because it *is* test-driven development. TDD *does* work with well- defined problems -- for example, creating an implementation of an existing interface. ...
Yes I can. I am working toward a pull system - right now all the links in the chains are weak in some way. Mike ... -- http://mikeonitstuff.net/ New Blog ...
As project size, do you mean 'large team ( > 50 people), a looooong project (> 2 years), lots of stories? If thats the case, I have worked in an Agile team of...
There have been several interesting discussions about productivity on the APM and XP lists this year. Someone asked me to cull and post them for posterity,...
Jeff, I actually was asking Ron how to eliminate the permutations, not test them. Writing the acceptance tests is fairly easy. Except you missed a few. - All...
J.B. ... does ... make ... all ... gets ... Well I respect your opinion so it's good to know that I am not completely off my rocker in the way I have come to...
... It's hard to articulate a good rule on testing at various levels. I tend to push very hard at the isolation level because I think we're better off when we...
I'm cross-posting this to xp and scrum lists, as I'm interested in both sides' ideas. This is a real situation. Names have been changed to protect the...
Hello, Michael. On Monday, November 3, 2008, at 3:37:18 AM, you ... Yes. Often people want a cut and dried set of answers to questions like these. Sorry,...
... Might there be reasons for the changes in design, other than they don't trust that an iterative process can produce a "good" design? Are they worried about...
Brad Stiles
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Cenk, I remember of reading about your experience in that project (if I'm not mistaken you even posted a picture of the working environment). Although I don't...
Hi Ron, An interesting scenario. I think you are right here and customer does have valid reasons to get involved in the design details. The only thing that...
So what will happen is that iteration n+1 will start, and then the ... If Iterations are short enough and if we can replace "at the next iteration" with...
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