Scott, I'm glad you have taken seriously my suggestion to iterate the Principles - few folks have. A few comments: 1) I never suggested we should iterate the...
Being "sufficiently flexible to still support non-agile [...] teams" doesn't strike me as a particularly "Agile Manifesto" kind of statement. If we're so...
Well, it said the "ecosystem" must evolve to support both - it's about the surrounding organization as opposed to the agile team itself. This does seem...
All, Lately I've come across a number of people on the interweb who mix a number of buzz words together in order to create some title, and then create ...
... Yes, and somewhat. But times is hard, and we do what we can. <grin> I'm bothered by the loose use of the word agile. I'm in the Washington, DC area, and I...
Hello, Chris. On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, at 3:29:07 PM, you ... What are you, our resident Certified WhineMaster? :) Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com To...
Hello, Chris. On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, at 4:35:22 PM, you ... Ah. Are you a member of the Area Whining Authority? I ask because I am the local Whining...
... I want to be a Whining Authority Recruitment Trainer. Mostly because of the awesome acronym. //Ola -- ... Ola Ellnestam Agical AB Västerlånggatan 79, 2...
... Not because I'm hiring. Though I don't actively participate in software development anymore, I do check in on the 'state of the art' from time to time,...
Hi Chris, I get annoyed sometimes as well. And I admit to having a strong tendency to dis-believe the competence of those who give themselves fancy titles. ...
Kay, Are you saying that a five month discussion on the 'Agile Alliance' LinkedIn site with almost 400 posts did not influence the effort to begin looking...
Hello, MarvinToll.com. On Thursday, November 4, 2010, at 7:10:46 ... This topic remains off topic. We now return you to your regularly scheduled discussion of...
Marvin Toll wrote, ... No, I wasn't saying anything like that. What I asked was simply "are you saying that Scott wrote that article because of you?" There...
Thanks for the pointer, Jeff. ... I agree - as a beginner I want/need rules to follow, hence my cutesy little rules I suggested a while back. Those cutesy...
... Wise choice. But also, don't give up too early or easily... There is a lot to be said for separating GUI library widget referencing code from GUI-driving...
... I have a raised front lawn, with a waist-high brick wall in the front. I planted some phlox there several years ago. It grew onto the top of the wall, and...
Hi, Stan, I don't think what you're doing is TDD. Those 5-11 methods didn't just appear, you typed them in, right? Starting with a test and then generating...
Stan, ... Kay gave you some good book recommendations. If you prefer screencasts to books, you might check out http://jamesshore.com/Blog/Lets-Play/ - George ...
I spend most of my time, nowadays, trying to convince Scrum teams to adopt XP practices. One thing that comes up over and over again is that teams that adopt...
Hello, Adam. On Saturday, November 6, 2010, at 12:27:37 AM, you ... XP teams, good ones, have their code surrounded by zillions of tests. They pair, so...
... Something bugs me here... If you are using "XP team" as a shorthand for "teams who use XP practices", ditto Scrum, then you're almost stating a tautology:...
Groups we are calling "Scrum Teams" may be late adopters, who are by definition reluctant to change, (and might have had Scrum forced on them) while the "XP...
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Chris Wheeler <christopher.wheeler@... ... It's hard to develop the soft skills necessary to coach an agile team. I've ...
