... Split epics just in time or at the last responsible moment then ensure your stories are Independent Negotiable Valuable Estimable Small and Testable. ... ...
... Yes, of course I mean small = "as small as possible" without loosing the meaning of the story. Sometimes happens that during initial stage I write a 4-5...
Hi M, ... I would appreciate a somewhat more polite approach to your expressing your ideas. Thanks, Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com I know we always like to...
... complete, ... Hi George, I think I've come across that page on your blog whilst researching this topic before, and read most of those you link to. I think...
... Yes, right this is also my way to do consulting so I agree with you in general, and I only partially agree with you about embedded applications. Many times...
... First of all this isn't agile, second it is a very stupid method. Being agile means also adapt or made a template adapted to a specific project/type of...
Stuart, ... To be honest, I've found that developing explicit examples of the stories (just in time, not the whole list at once) is more important than...
Hi, I'd agree with your points that it's unrealistic to get detailed understanding from a 2 hour workshop. I'd also agree that developers need <=iteration...
M. ... I think that would be true only if the role of the consultant is teaching knowledge that the consultant already has. To be sure, some who call...
George, Curtis, thanks for your input. ... stakeholders ... and ... take a ... massive ... whatever ... I haven't had time to collate the output yet TBH, but...
... Because the rate of success is not related only to application methods but it is also (and for me it is more related) to business and product knowledge....
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Adam Sroka
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Jan 17, 2012 5:30 am
+1 It is important to recognize that these opinions depend on the language and environment. My earlier comments are mostly from the point of view of a web ...
If you create a property in C# whose type is a class, the naming convention (supported by ReSharper) is to use exactly the same orthography as the class name...
Visual Studio without ReSharper is unbearable. I bought a license with my own money when a client wouldn't pop for it. I use Java and Ruby at home for...
Curtis, ... I've followed consultants like that at clients. It's generally not nearly as successful an engagement. - George -- ... * George Dinwiddie *...
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:21 AM, George Dinwiddie ... fast you'll go anyway. ... about his problem with his consultants. I've "known" you too long on this ...
Hi, Curtis, ... Yes. Of course that will, itself, take a lot of work and be very prone to error. At the start of the project, we don't know how fast we'll ...
... I would spend some time seeing what problems it does solve, so when/if those problems arise, or you're having them already, you have a possible solution....
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:41 AM, George Dinwiddie ... [snip] ... having an estimate for when the project will be done, then you will have to do the work to...
Don't get me wrong I have to do move method by hand right now. I didn't mean to imply that I stop trying to remove duplication as soon as it isn't handed to...
Hi Steve, I am a little worried about that statement. Please don’t let your tool limit which refactoring methods you use, and don’t wait for a tool before...
... I don't think either. In 99% cases names already born unique without any extra efforts. In the rest 1%, I just make them "even more" descriptive until they...
... I work with dynamic languages, where automated refactoring tools do not exist. I do exactly this but only when I'm not sure about a name - for example, on...
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Adam Sroka
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Jan 16, 2012 12:18 pm
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, but I don't think using unique names is a bad idea at all. Just so long as those names are communicative and not full...
I think "rename" is essential and should be as much simple as possible. Unfortunately with "dynamic" languages (say my favorite Python) or in "mixed"...
Hi George, ... Yes. I use rename all the time, so often that I didn't think of it. :) Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way....
... I use Extract and Inline a lot, together. It was shocking when I was at a client site and the IDE they used did not support Inline in Java. Rename is also...
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Adam Sroka
adam.sroka@...
Jan 15, 2012 9:48 pm
P.S. I should clarify: I am a huge fan of JetBrains and their tools. If you are working in Java or C#, you have a sufficiently beefy machine, and your company...
I program in c# I use rename, extract. I have used others like move up and extract class however visual studio doesn't provide native support for these so I am...
