I agree that courage is key, and I am glad that XP made that explicit so I didn't have to work as hard to figure it out for myself. It is also key that we...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 7, 2010 12:10 am
... That makes sense. To put it in the proper context the teams that are doing Scrum without XP practices are doing what they were told to do. Many of them...
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thierry henrio
thierry.henrio
Nov 7, 2010 12:41 am
Hello Adam ... If company was sold "XXX folds lead time by 2, just do XXX", then it might It might also be a great goal if planned and agreed transparently ......
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George Paci
georgepaci
Nov 7, 2010 12:50 am
... I agree, but I completely fail to see why you used a smiley. The entire reason I applied for my current job was that I was sure it was a highly- ...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 7, 2010 1:13 am
... I'm a little hesitant to promise them specific results. For example, they want to know if TDD will make them faster and I am willing to say that in the...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Nov 7, 2010 2:16 am
I had a marketer tell me that his company was in the thought leadership business. I asked them if they actually did some work, too, and what kind of work it...
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Chris Wheeler
chris_h_wheeler
Nov 7, 2010 3:11 am
... Andre, tell me, do you make claims that you can change entire organizations? That's where my beef lies - coaches, team members, or anyone, who've coached...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 7, 2010 5:08 am
... Yes, that's exactly what I was talking about. The XP folks who I know have a natural tendency to try new things that led them to XP in the first place. A...
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Laurent Bossavit
lbos75
Nov 7, 2010 9:36 am
Hi Adam, ... This is getting close to off-topic, but last Thursday at one of the French stops of Agile Tour I sat in on a very interesting talk with a title...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Nov 7, 2010 9:56 am
Hello, Adam. On Saturday, November 6, 2010, at 7:10:25 PM, you ... Yes. This sounds to me like a culture issue. I'd be looking at what management is doing to...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Nov 7, 2010 10:01 am
Hello, Adam. On Sunday, November 7, 2010, at 12:08:42 AM, you ... Have these people had Scrum training? Have they heard about Inspect and Adapt? Are they...
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Philip
philipjohann...
Nov 7, 2010 10:32 am
... Yes, as Kent Beck says on p 34 of the 1st edition of XP Explained: If you don't have the first three values in place, courage by itself is just plain...
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JeffGrigg
jeffgrigg63132
Nov 7, 2010 12:00 pm
... Yes, perhaps a crying smiley would have been more appropriate: My thought was... "And the first thing most companies disband as a project comes to a close...
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D.André Dhondt
wile_e_kycodey
Nov 7, 2010 2:21 pm
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Chris Wheeler < ... Not that I recall--though I have changed _small_ organizations--less than 30 people. I guess the thing is...
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Charlie Poole
cpoole98370
Nov 7, 2010 2:52 pm
... This is always the case. No outsider can "change an organization." Only people in that organization can change and the aggregate of all those changes is...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Nov 7, 2010 6:12 pm
... This view assumes that team responsibility and authority already exist, otherwise communication, simplicity, feedback and courage only go as far as the...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Nov 8, 2010 2:24 am
Hello, Steven. On Sunday, November 7, 2010, at 1:12:44 PM, you ... Yes ... what you say would be true for teams that really do Scrum. It seems that many do...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 8, 2010 6:43 am
... That's a very good question. They all have had some degree of training, but most could use more. They do have retrospectives, but the retrospective...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 8, 2010 6:55 am
... In these large organizations teams aren't always choosing Scrum for themselves. It is a bit of a Catch 22 when you tell folks, "We have decided that you...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 8, 2010 6:59 am
... Scrum, by design I believe, is rather easy to do mechanically. Living up to the intent and truly inspecting and adapting is more challenging. IMO, even...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Nov 8, 2010 3:29 pm
... Ron, It does seem that the percentage of XP teams really doing XP is significantly greater than the percentage of Scrum teams really doing Scrum. Would...
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Charlie Poole
cpoole98370
Nov 8, 2010 3:40 pm
... And the percentage of teams calling them selves "agile" that are really "agile" is even lower that for Scrum. ... It seems to me that the more popular a...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 8, 2010 5:26 pm
I seem to recall quite a few teams claiming to be doing XP and doing it either partially or naively. I think that was true in the early days (1999-2004 or so)...
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ronjeffriesacm@...
ronaldejeffries
Nov 8, 2010 6:54 pm
I don't have any data, even subjective, to support this. Intuitively, it would seem that since xp is more specific, it might be harder to assert it without...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Nov 8, 2010 7:01 pm
... Indeed! The team I met last week had been doing scrum for about five sprints. The results of their last retrospective were still shown on a white board,...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 8, 2010 7:03 pm
My data is only anecdotal, based on the teams that I have had direct contact with. However, I think there is a terminology problem. In the early days people ...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 8, 2010 7:09 pm
... This is a good time to plug Esther Derby and Diana Larsen's /Agile Retrospectives/. Some of the techniques are a bit touchy-feely for us software geeks,...
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Kay
tranzpuppy
Nov 8, 2010 8:24 pm
Hi, Chris, Sorry for the delay in responding. ... Yes, I had much the same experience when I was taking care of my 92-year-old aunt... I got a different...
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Lior Friedman
friedmanlior
Nov 10, 2010 6:36 am
Hi All, I'm looking for more ideas about how to split a big epic that is aimed at improving performance of a system. Currently the system is compose of 3...
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JeffGrigg
jeffgrigg63132
Nov 10, 2010 10:26 am
... Because the interaction of agent and server levels is not directly visible to the users, and the issue is performance, the business-observable results of...
