Appreciate the info - I'm aware of coding dojo's but I don't think it would work for our purposes here - we have a large team which is a mix of employees and...
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Chris Wheeler
chris_h_wheeler
Dec 3, 2008 2:10 pm
... I find lot's of blogs that corroborate this, but I can't find any real research numbers. Seems a romantic notion and a bit of a cop-out, but is it real? ...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Dec 3, 2008 2:31 pm
... Autism is a spectrum traditionally ranging from very low functioning at one end to Asperger's Syndrome at the other. It's also quite possible for a person...
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Chris Wheeler
chris_h_wheeler
Dec 3, 2008 2:37 pm
Hi Dave, et al, I hope I didn't come across as insensitive - I realize that my original statement had some ambiguity. 'Is it real?' referred to 'Is it true...
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John Roth
jhrothjr
Dec 3, 2008 3:43 pm
... I don't have research numbers, and I'm not at all sure I'd trust them if I did: the whole area is contaminated by the gold rush to get some of that juicy...
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Pieter Nagel
pieter@...
Dec 3, 2008 3:58 pm
... My own opinion on these is: It's not the case that Asperger's is a common disease of which mild cases are common in the engineering community. Rather,...
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banshee858
Dec 3, 2008 6:22 pm
... Guess what? If you don't have a prioritized backlog you are not doing Scrum. You might be doing something iterative or incremental, but certainly not...
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banshee858
Dec 3, 2008 7:12 pm
This month at Extreme Programming San Diego (XPSD), Carlton Nettleton will show us some techniques borrowed from the Six Sigma world to plan and monitor Agile...
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Dave Smith
dwsmtnview
Dec 3, 2008 7:19 pm
... If you're looking for data points, I've worked with or near 4 people in the last 5 years who've been diagnosed with mild Aspergers (plus a bunch more that ...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Dec 3, 2008 9:54 pm
... Not necessarily. There are a number of reasons that early requirements can change drastically. Much of the power of XP is in the ability to allow those...
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Olof Bjarnason
olof.bjarnason@...
Dec 3, 2008 10:05 pm
John Roth wrote: "The Release Plan is set at the Release Planning meeting. That doesn't mean that it's cast in concrete, but too many changes indicate that ...
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Julian Hall
julescov
Dec 3, 2008 10:07 pm
... do you ... exacerbated in ... mentioned ... map, this ... However, they ... development you ... realistic map, ... this ... wouldn't drive ... algorithm on...
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Matt
maswaffer
Dec 3, 2008 10:20 pm
John, ... call ... For the sake of discussion... why is this a bad thing? It would seem that the desires of a Real Customer might be important. Matt...
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
Dec 3, 2008 10:25 pm
FWIW, I think one of the sources of bugs in programs' relying on random numbers, is when the numbers are "untypical" but theoretically possible -- e.g. all the...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 3, 2008 10:27 pm
Hello, Matt. On Wednesday, December 3, 2008, at 5:20:04 PM, you ... Yes. But not if you change direction on each phone call. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Dec 3, 2008 10:39 pm
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Ron Jeffries ... In my experience this is the area where sales/support and marketing need to interface. There has to be some...
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Matt
maswaffer
Dec 3, 2008 10:45 pm
Ron, ... seem ... True. At my last job we used to have the wild screaming of Sales that changed tune every week. Part of the reason for this was our ...
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Pieter Nagel
pieter@...
Dec 3, 2008 11:10 pm
... Oh, I'm in total agreement. Our PM's claims to the contrary leave me alternatively sad and vexed....
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 3, 2008 11:59 pm
... John, I doubted your conclusion on the prevalence of Asperger's, but this statement I know is bullshit. I'm a coach and I'm not a "people person" by...
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John Roth
jhrothjr
Dec 4, 2008 1:29 am
... When the release plan changes every week because the marketing priorities flap in the breeze of sales promising the customer whatever is needed to get the ...
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John Maxwell
jmax315
Dec 4, 2008 2:55 am
... Really? I've never had that problem; there're the people who are like me, and the people who are wrong... -John (S.C.F.T.H.I.) -- John Maxwell...
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Matt
maswaffer
Dec 4, 2008 4:34 am
John, ... What if you release every week? Then everything you get done that week gets released and if the plan changes for next week... that's fine, just ...
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Olof Bjarnason
olof.bjarnason@...
Dec 4, 2008 7:10 am
The "flap in the breeze" discussion: I would like to point out a relevant distinction - it relates a lot to how many individual customers there are. In my case...
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D. André Dhondt
wile_e_kycodey
Dec 4, 2008 9:29 am
Anyone use a tool that, ideally, integrates into an ANT build to capture full screens or specific panels of a Java/Swing app, so that our help documentation...
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Ilja Preuß
ipreussde
Dec 4, 2008 9:38 am
Yes, using JDemo: http://www.jdemo.de (see http://www.jdemo.de/docs/pdf/index.html#toc7.5.3 ) In fact, all the screenshots in the JDemo documentation are...
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Ilja Preuß
ipreussde
Dec 4, 2008 9:40 am
Yes, using JDemo: http://www.jdemo.de (see http://www.jdemo.de/docs/pdf/index.html#toc7.5.3 ) In fact, all the screenshots in the JDemo documentation are...
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D. André Dhondt
wile_e_kycodey
Dec 4, 2008 9:50 am
Wow, that's perfect, thank you Ilja! ... -- D. André Dhondt mobile: 001 33 671 034 984 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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D. André Dhondt
wile_e_kycodey
Dec 4, 2008 9:54 am
I forgot about our integration with downstream products, and upstream products, so we'll also need another tool. Anyone using tools like JDemo to capture...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Dec 4, 2008 1:19 pm
... Now you do. We release every week. It's a web app, so "deploy" is probably better terminology than "release". If we shipped a desktop app, I don't know...
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M. Manca
micronpn
Dec 4, 2008 1:52 pm
... something like that for C/C++ (mainly I use C++ Builder)? ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
