Hello, Marvin. On Thursday, June 24, 2010, at 6:38:06 AM, you ... I wrote an article directed at this question: Can doing something anti-Agile be more...
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Charlie Poole
cpoole98370
Jul 1, 2010 7:24 pm
Hi Ron, Nicely put. It lacks the sarcasm of your earlier post, which is probably good for general circulation - although I quite liked the original myself. One...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 3, 2010 11:35 am
Hi Charlie, Nice story. I've been following this thread and I've found myself elated that people like Ron are (re) stating Agile values in a clear and...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jul 4, 2010 12:04 am
no, really. ignore. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com www.xprogramming.com/blog War remains the decisive human failure. -- John Kenneth Galbraith...
Dear XP Community, Back in May, I asked for your help doing research on organization culture and Agile. Thank you so much to all of you who took the survey!...
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JeffGrigg
jeffgrigg63132
Jul 7, 2010 10:45 am
I particularly like the disclaimer: "Two cautions: the results do not represent the study of actual Agile teams, but rather the `ideal' preference for a good...
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imeshev
Jul 7, 2010 7:02 pm
... 120 respondents is a statistically insignificant set. You cannot draw any conclusions from it. If you do, they will be meaningless. Regards, Slava Imeshev...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jul 7, 2010 7:08 pm
Hello, imeshev. On Wednesday, July 7, 2010, at 3:02:17 PM, you ... Bayes' theorem? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com www.xprogramming.com/blog Talent...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Jul 7, 2010 7:47 pm
The probability of people on this list responding to a survey is low independent of what the survey is trying to measure (Which I totally don't get in this...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jul 8, 2010 3:03 pm
Slava ... And how many respondents would be required to achieve statistical significance? What level of statistical significance? - George -- ... * George...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jul 8, 2010 3:48 pm
One cannot measure how much bias there is in a promiscuous survey, so statistical significance is irrelevant. (Surveying a random sample from a preselected...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 4:34 pm
Hi All, It amazes me just how little we actually understand about the scientific method (including me) :) Even tough we all love to think that we are...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jul 8, 2010 5:50 pm
... Social scientists know how to gather this kind of data in a way that controls for biases. They do not just throw a survey out on the internet and apply...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 8:20 pm
Hi Steven, ... Make sense. ... Now you say it. I was aware of this. ... This is what worries me. My post wasn't in response to yours. I was talking about a...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jul 8, 2010 8:41 pm
Paul, Agile is locally empirical - how individual collections of collaborating people solve problems and deliver value in their evolving situation over time...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 9:06 pm
Hi Steven, Are we unique in this regard? Is their nothing that can be learned? Regards, Paul....
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 9:28 pm
Hi Steven, Maybe the specific of your own experience are informative. Did you find the study you helped with useful? What value did the social scientist find?...
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Laurent Bossavit
lbos75
Jul 8, 2010 9:30 pm
Hi Paul, Steve, This article, "When Agile Met Data", may be relevant: http://www.paskaward.org/publications/bossavit100225.html Cheers, Laurent Bossavit ...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 10:45 pm
Hi Laurent, Skimmed the article, and I think it is falling into a common pitfall. The idea of absolute truth and that we can definitively know everything if...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jul 8, 2010 10:47 pm
... Of course, there is much to be learned. Doing agile is about continuously learning during each project and collaboratively applying that learning during...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 10:54 pm
Hi Steven, ... No I mean isn't there nothing to be learned from qualitative data? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative_data I know the two words look...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 11:12 pm
Just to clarify. There use to be an ad on TV for cat food that went something like this "... When asked to express a preference 8 out of 10 owners said their...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jul 8, 2010 11:13 pm
We can learn a lot about human perceptions, opinions, attitudes and biases. In some worlds, such as marketing, perception is reality. In most other worlds,...
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Laurent Bossavit
lbos75
Jul 8, 2010 11:27 pm
Hi Paul, ... We have over ten years' worth of data on how people feel about agile practices. Adding to that is probably still valuable. And (with the notable...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 11:28 pm
Hi Steven, ... In any world where we only have subjective means of measurement then perception is reality. If my customers are extremely happy with the results...
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PAUL
beckfordp...
Jul 8, 2010 11:34 pm
Hi Laurent, This is the type of qualitative data I mean. Peoples perceptions of intent-practice-outcome etc. It would be nice to cut the data by different...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jul 9, 2010 12:40 am
... Yes, customers can accurately say how happy they were with results. Once we start getting into their perceptions as to why they were dissatisfied, what ...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jul 9, 2010 1:09 am
BTW, the intrinsic human mechanism to convert an experience/input into mental models consistent with our personal world view and then substitute that mental...
