+1 on all except the COM part... 1. Test directly below the UI, but... 2. make the UI incredibly thin The Visual Studio IDE is your enemy here. Every time you...
HI All, I got the strangest email recently from a recruiter for an "agile environment" for full time and contractor positions. What struck me though was the...
Estimate high! Then charge $120/point. From: James Carr Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 2:29 PM To: extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com Subject: [XP] Contractor...
I inquired with the recruiter to see how they hoped to pay a rate based on velocity and got a response: "Our client is not basing the rate on experience, but...
... Bruce Schneier posts "doghouse"; and "snake oil" entries on tools and company's that make cryptography claims that are questionable or just plain...
I would love to do a contract that was paid by the feature some day. The scope of the features could be negotiable, but the features would be working bits of...
... This sounds like an indirect way to get to (or near) a fixed bid contract without saying those words. Dave [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... Don't forget to cancel the d's. :) -- Dave Rooney Agile Coach and Co-founder, Westboro Systems "Maximizing the value of your IT investments!" E-mail:...
... Finally, I understand why you would want to use Fibonacci numbers greater than 3 to estimate stories! :) -- Dave Rooney Agile Coach and Co-founder,...
... Now that could be interesting. What if, as part of the estimation/planning effort the customer attached business-value estimates in the form of payment...
Hello, Buddha. On Saturday, March 6, 2010, at 9:26:28 AM, you ... That's like what Kate Oneal is talking about in http://xprogramming.com/xpmag/aokoslices/ ...
... Hmmm, so we rinse/repeat not until the next story isn't worth enough to pay for, but until there's no one willing to implement it for us at the price we're...
... No, and that would indeed be an interesting way of paying. However, there's a difference between paying by RTF's and paying by velocity - velocity can be...
Hello Dave, Remember as well that money as a motivator in knowledge work actually ... didn't we all made the assumption that "rate is based on velocity"...
Hi Thierry, I think the fundamental assumption is that 'velocity' meant Velocity as XP uses (or once used) the term. That's based on nothing more than the fact...
Hello, Randy. On Saturday, March 6, 2010, at 11:47:35 AM, you ... Yes ... but I don't see why I should have to pay more for the same amount of work, just...
... Point taken, but what about this: You want to pay per feature based on the value you assign to those features. So, my experienced XP team will bid on a few...
... Any equally competent team that will work at a fixed rate per "point" will underbid you and take all your business. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com ...
... Really? So I guess when you program you only make $10/hr? Otherwise I'm sure a programmer in Russia would underbid you and take all your business . . . ...
... Just to be clear, I am advocating pay per feature not pay per point. Hopefully, we all agree that points are meaningless. I don't really have any problem...
... Yes, but how about addressing the point. Why would someone hire a competent team that charged by value if an equivalent team would work for a fixed rate? ...
... Weren't you just a moment ago arguing for setting your price based on the value of the feature to the customer? Otherwise why would you ever stop taking on...
... Yes, I was. I don't see a problem with a customer saying that they are willing to pay more for some features that are more valuable to them and less for...
... It's a lovely dream. But given one team that pays its members a good wage, therefore producing features at a fixed cost per (unit) feature, and another one...
... If you needed your bathroom remodeled, why would you chose a contractor who charges more? Not everyone would, but there are all sorts of reasons that a...
