Hi all! In this recently-published essay of mine: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/optimizing-code-for-speed/ I made a call for a catalogue of...
Chris, Currently the test history is stored locally. There are many advantages to storing it in the cloud (or on an inside-the-firewall cloudlet), though, so I...
... Well, the advantage of Ward's Wiki is the community associated with it more than the tool (Which is intentionally quite primitive.) If you go somewhere...
Has anyone in the UK successfully used an Optional Scope Contract (as described by Kent Beck & Dave Cleal [1]) or similar? If yes, do you have a sample...
... questions. ... Thanks for the clarification. Honestly, I did not hear this in the talk at all, but am glad to hear this now. With books and forums like ...
When your developing an application you can describe its features in terms of users performing actions to achieve some business goal, with a user-story ("As as...
Certainly it makes sense to have such stories. A user story for component: I consider it as a theme story and this should be broken down (depends on how big...
... I'm not so sure it makes sense to me. I believe the original poster said that it goes to a web service. Usually a web service isn't consumed directly by...
... A strong point in favor of Adrian's suggestion is that all the extensions to all the components required to deliver this value to users is accomplished...
Hi Amr, ... Surely you knew the answer would be "It depends." :-) I agree that it's generally a bad idea to build components in isolation from the rest of the...
Hi Steven, ... I agree wholeheartedly with the principle, and I think vertical teams is the way to go. But I've seen some friction in a larger multi-project...
Can someone please explain where the notion that actually having a infrastructure, database or other team would somehow kill cross-functional teamage? Yes,...
Hi Torbjörn, On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 21:33, Torbjörn Gyllebring ... The 'heresy' comment was tongue-in-cheek. Sorry for not making that clearer... It's...
... Yes, there may be no perfect solution. So, perhaps a hybrid model might work: 1. Have the stories driven vertically by verticals teams. 2. Maintain...
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Torbjörn Gyllebring ... The problem is the extra layers of communication make for different interpretations of what needs to...
... Many places I have seen component teams, they fear getting behind so much that they start including anticipated future functionality in everything they do....
... That sounds like the model being used at the company I worked for when developing the example component I mentioned in my original post - product lines,...
Hi Kim and Steven, I should have been clearer with how I envisioned it based upon Kim's initial post. What I wanted to say was that I see no harm in having a...
... Do you mean user stories in an otherwise non-agile approach? I am not sure if that can accomplish much. Do you mean every team iteratively delivers on a...
... I used to think this way, and at least in the small, I find it important to do both together. That might change at larger scales--I don't have much direct...
This month, at Extreme Programming San Diego (XPSD), Dan Gilkerson will introduce Behavior Driven Development (BDD), including its implementation, benefits,...
I actually posted a response to this on my own blog at blog.agilebuddy.com Basically, I don't think that it's that hard to address both simultaneously...
Hi Steve, In a nutshell ... the 'product' was a framework which the customer team would take and build a UI on top of and implement various integration points...
... The product is a framework and the real customers are development teams in different organizations around the world that would be using the framework to...
It really doesn't matter whether you're delivering UI to the customer or not. User stories are still the way to go to manage the requirements process. You...
Torbjörn, On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 23:12, Torbjörn Gyllebring ... Right, this is precisely what I meant earlier, thanks for reaffirming :-) ... Good point,...
... I've been wondering about these same things myself, and am enjoying this thread very much. My experience is also with large development organizations with...
... Tony, This is a problem. Consider the following approach where the components have such different technologies: 1. Vertical teams consist of testers and...
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