... Do you supply those teams with features? Do they supply you with features? or Do you all build different parts of the same features? If you supply them...
Scott, I think you have a spell-check problem. Because, while I question the validity of the certification schemes currently in vogue, I certainly don't...
I wonder if our diffs would make for good refridgerator postings. I had a day yesterday when I would love to put my diff up on a fridge to show off to my...
I don't care about wrong spelling. I'll only care about having a seal on my e-mail signature for only $995. Awesome! Ps.: Yes, I'm being sarcastic. 2009/4/1...
How would you feel about working on only one thing at a time in order to make everything simpler? Serializing the work flow instead of scattering it? Tim...
Dave, I really appreciate your input. The experiences you described are very similar to what we're dealing with. In these cases, the best we could do was to...
Joe, ... We have pretty clear lines of responsibility, so it's always customer/supplier situation with our role defined by the feature. While communication...
Scrum for Managers by Mitch Lacey Most of us have heard of Scrum and some of us have probably run some projects with it. It calls for cross functional, self...
We can't prevent code from going stale while it waits for other groups to finish their parts of the solution. By keeping our own code as clean as possible, we...
... Perception altering: The problem isn't that your code went stale waiting for them. Being done first is the culprit? I think not. The problem, rather, is...
Tim, You're right. The solution to the true problem would be to improve the level of communication and collaboration in the organization. It isn't always...
... I'm thinking; wouldn't modern social communication tool like twitter be one way of keeping in synch? Say, each team has twitter user, and all team members...
Olof Bjarnason
olof.bjarnason@...
Apr 2, 2009 11:47 am
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... Cute, Scott. I /like/ it. Just one nit to pick: You mention "a very serious ethical lapse within the agile community." If I'm thinking of the same thing...
... As a bit of social engineering, just make sure that they don't perceive the problem as you being agile, but rather that you were done first. If agile is...
... A lot of places install jabber servers. It can help, if people actually watch it. Some places it's poorly attended and poorly monitored, and helps not at...
... A group chat channel in skype is another idea, yes. Have you tried twitter/are you using twitter..? I think it is quite good for "notifications". A lot...
Olof Bjarnason
olof.bjarnason@...
Apr 2, 2009 2:03 pm
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All, The domain registrant of WAQB is *not* the one who created or built the website. He merely owns a product which "point and click" builds websites. I've...
Hi All, This idea isn't quite new, I'm sure some other shops out there have tried it and I'd like to get some feedback if possible. I've been thinking a bit ...
Hi, Sometimes we upgrade platforms and when we run all our tests we find everything is green and dandy, or there's a few API changes we might need to fix....
... Then it is not a story. No story takes no effort. ... I like 1, 2, 4, and "split" as estimation choices for story work in an iteration. For the product...
Hi all, Uncle Bob just published an article yesterday [1] outlining a dream of strictly hierarchical team structures with a single Master Craftsman at the top,...
... I would hope that this is another thoughtful Uncle Bob joke and that you are not serious. -d -- Sent from gmail so do not trust this communication. Do not...
On 04/02/09 14:02:00, James Carr wrote: [snip] ... My understanding is that current "concensus of the list" (a tenuous and hazardous concept at best, I know)...
... I'm fairly sure it's a April Fools joke. ... That it isn't a joke. -John -- John Maxwell (jmax@...) Politics is like driving. It's D to go forward,...
Hi James, ... In my previous team, we tried ordering by difficulty -- mostly to avoid the focus on time. However, I think that bred more confusion than clear...
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