Thanks for sharing :-) I'm not sure though if the whole thing can be measured as a whole. Some things have negligible overhead (i.e. "should this return 'true'...
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Franz Allan Valencia ...
favs77
Mar 1, 2010 10:08 am
Ok, I see your point. "work" is relative. If you can have team co-located then that would be really great! But sometimes, it's just not practical/economical. ...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Mar 1, 2010 7:18 pm
What I believe is this: Becoming siloed, isolated, out of touch, etc. is very easy to do. It is especially easy for programmer geeks like myself. It is not...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Mar 2, 2010 2:15 pm
Adam: You and I have almost the same opinion. We agree that it's not the best way, and oppose it as a way out of programming in person, and agree that it is...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Mar 3, 2010 12:21 am
... Yep. ... I find pairing and pairing well for collocated teams to be enough of a challenge to keep me busy. Perhaps some day I will take on the challenge of...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Mar 3, 2010 2:33 am
When/if the day comes, advertise here. :}...
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Sebastian
paymentexpert
Mar 3, 2010 12:03 pm
First I thought this would be the usual rant but there is more to it than I initially thought: ...
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Laurent Bossavit
lbos75
Mar 3, 2010 1:02 pm
Short assessment: "anti" rhetoric, aka bashing. Ignore. Here's a constructive suggestion: mostly pay attention to people who are bringing forward new, valuable...
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Ilja Preuß
ipreussde
Mar 3, 2010 1:06 pm
Frankly, I'm tired of people who tell me how Agile Software Development is inadequate and needs to change. If you know something that helps me do my job...
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Ilja Preuß
ipreussde
Mar 3, 2010 1:09 pm
I guess I should just have waited a few more minutes to just post a "+1" :) You said it much better than I was able to. Thanks, Ilja...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Mar 3, 2010 1:32 pm
... Nope - I couldn't see a link either. -- Dave Rooney Agile Coach and Co-founder, Westboro Systems "Maximizing the value of your IT investments!" E-mail:...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Mar 3, 2010 1:38 pm
Well said, Laurent. I would actually agree with Kai to an extent if he were focusing on XP or Scrum circa 2001. My experience is that User Stories alone that...
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Ilja Preuß
ipreussde
Mar 3, 2010 2:17 pm
Hi Dave, ... I think it's totally ok, if you take into account that it's *a promise for a conversation*. A competent team will take that story and ask ...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Mar 3, 2010 2:32 pm
... Yes! Martin Fowler wrote about that recently: http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/DecreedStories.html . I hadn't thought about Martin's Bliki entry in the...
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Charlie Poole
cpoole98370
Mar 3, 2010 3:03 pm
Hi Dave, ... This looks like blogging as a publishing mechanism - no feedback desired. It's an odd model for us, but some folks use it. It's somewhat amusing...
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Ilja Preuß
ipreussde
Mar 3, 2010 4:22 pm
Interestingly, there *are* already comments posted. I contacted Kay on twitter about it - perhaps we are missing something, or it's an oversight. I will keep...
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Ricardo Mayerhofer
imp_galo
Mar 3, 2010 4:32 pm
Jeff Patton talks about this subject in his presentation: http://agileproductdesign.com/downloads/patton_embrace_uncertainty_optimized.ppt...
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nyrb2
Mar 3, 2010 4:42 pm
Thanks Klaus -- I bought the book and it's really helping a lot. However, there's one big thing I'm struggling with. In order to do the end-to-end...
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shyamk77
Mar 3, 2010 5:39 pm
Moderator NOTE - Announcements are welcome, but please use [ANN] in the title so people can filter them out if they don't want to see them. Also, keep it...
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Sebastian
paymentexpert
Mar 3, 2010 6:20 pm
Maybe he was talking about the ones at InfoQ... http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/03/serious-flaws-agile-scrum...
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Kim Gräsman
kimgrasman
Mar 3, 2010 7:05 pm
Hi Bryn, ... White [1] claims to be able to handle regular Win32 controls. I haven't tried it, so I can't speak for it more than this. It won't plug into...
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JackM
jmilunsky
Mar 3, 2010 7:27 pm
I read this post. It's easy to focus on one aspect of Scrum whilst ignoring other aspects. For example, Kai shows the Scrum process drawing ... nowhere does he...
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John Roth
jhrothjr
Mar 4, 2010 4:06 pm
There's a stream of thought which says that the best way to test an application through the gui is to not test an application through the gui. Obviously, not...
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Donald Murray, P.Eng.
donaldm314
Mar 4, 2010 4:09 pm
Hi, ... Maybe the Humble Dialog pattern would allow you to test your Delete function.See the original Michael Feathers paper here: ...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Mar 4, 2010 4:39 pm
... Agreed, because it is obvious if you can limit "Agile Software Development" to 'as it is practiced' or (more accurately) 'as I have seen it practiced', and...
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criesbeck
Mar 4, 2010 6:52 pm
I've been teaching CS students and project managers (most without software backgrounds) Agile ideas for several years now, trying to meld the themes and...
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Ilja Preuß
ipreussde
Mar 4, 2010 7:29 pm
OK, apparently you need to register with the site to be able to comment. Not sure I wanna do that. Cheers, Ilja...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Mar 4, 2010 11:31 pm
... I think that's just another way to say "Agile fails to promote my business model." Tim Ottinger http://agileinaflash.blogspot.com/ ...
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
Mar 5, 2010 2:38 am
Also: consider using google test and google mock frameworks for c++, gtest and gmock. Much more power and convience than cppunit. C. Keith Ray Agile Coaching,...
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
Mar 5, 2010 4:29 am
With c++ on ms windows and ui programming, I'd try NOT writing any tests against purely ui code. If a ui-only bug shows up that isn't purely cosmetic, consider...
