... Yes - I tried. I think theyre inclined to make YAGNI be about what THEY want it to be about so they don't have to make that particular change in ...
... Interesting ... the above makes the case for treating "standardizing on an IDE" to be basically an extension of the need for a common "coding standard" for...
Hi Laurent, I'm with Josh on this. I see lots of floundering Scrum initiatives, typically due to the assumption that essential technical practices will be...
Hi Mary, ... For the same reason you'd bother to record precise observations of anything: research. Making hypotheses and breaking them. For instance, just one...
... I've blogged about this before, and posted a new entry today: http://practicalagility.blogspot.com/2009/02/scrum-is-not-enough-redux.html Needless to say,...
... It's Chet's fault. :-) I wouldn't call this spam. It's just an inadvertent posting after mistakenly associating the list email with someone's name. If...
Or we could explain how you can easily filter those mistakes so that you never have to see them and thus not get annoyed :) -d -- Sent from gmail so do not...
... Hi Ilja, ... I mean that in the more general sense; "inquiry", if you prefer. Why bother to record rich descriptions of project failure modes ? So that...
... Furthermore, most people on most failing projects do not know why they are having problems (otherwise, they would have been fixing them). Many are probably...
He's on moderation. One of the other moderators got to him before I did. I removed the two posts, and I agree with George - it looks like he was intending to...
... I think a lot of this comes from a misunderstanding of what it means to have "self organizing teams." We asked a bunch of idiots to self-organize and...
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:17 AM, George Dinwiddie ... We might be working from slightly different definitions of "fail." Mine includes the aforementioned...
... I would say the first error was hiring idiots. Individuals and interactions over ... We cannot expect agile to work for idiots no matter what we do. ...
Hello, Mary. On Sunday, February 1, 2009, at 9:59:31 AM, you ... How about the fact that lots of Scrum initiatives flounder owing to lack of technical...
... Hmmm... Define "suck" in this context. If "suck" means something like "not in the top 10% in terms of productivity of clean code" then it is, by...
... It's often not true that people don't know why they are having problems. It's more often true that they don't have the skills to fix the problems. Often...
... To be blunt, without the stories, this simply sounds like marketing bullshit. "Scrum always fails, IndustrialLogic can help!" Chris. [Non-text portions of...
Hello, Victor. On Sunday, February 1, 2009, at 11:19:17 AM, you ... If awareness worked, we wouldn't need a suite of tests. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com ...
Hello, Adam. On Sunday, February 1, 2009, at 12:46:24 PM, you ... Would that be true if we put them together, and demanded working software every couple of...
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 11:46 AM, George Dinwiddie ... First of all, I think "suck" is a know-it-when-you-see-it kind of thing. Principally, I am referring to...
... Chris, are you not paying attention? We've got essentially every consultant on the list who usually posts saying Exactly The Same Thing. I'm not a...
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ron Jeffries ... Only if we have a systematic way of determining that you are producing working software of value to the...
... ... with absolutely no tale to go along with it. Tell me stories about conversations you've had with execs, managers, programmers, at companies that were...
... Would you offer this advice in all contexts? Or just in the one in which you find yourself now? More specifically, if you were called in because a...
