Tom, Thanks for the supportive reply! ... Tom, if you are not currently gainfully employed, I can point you to a few truly high-performing teams across the...
... I too have found tasks where pair programming does not help: Long, tedious repetitive tasks don't work well with pairing. Actually, they work well with...
Academics don't seem to get it. You're lucky to find even a mention of anything Agile in an issue of Communications of the ACM, for instance. [Non-text...
Rob said * ... better comes along, for me it's TDD or the highway....* * * 35 years in my case, and amen! Here's a snippet from the cover letter I've been...
Hi George!! I tried that... it opens a page with Rob's answer totally blurred and says sign in with Facebook or Twitter. Then it says it won't post without my...
Hi, Rob, Sorry it took so long to respond to this. Replies embedded. ... I was thinking of problems that existed before implementing agile practices, that the...
Kay, ... I think Arie, and Steve Mellor is pretty academic. I don't think there is much "academic"; about Agile, though, it's very pragmatic. Your colleague...
When I mentioned Agile the other day, a cohort I respect said "I don't know about all that *academic* stuff... Were any of the original Agile Manifest...
I hear you. A good chunk of this work is fixing data. So no coding even. On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Leonardo Postacchini ... -- -- Adam www.dymitruk.com...
Yes both ways were tried. The legacy code is quite full of bugs. Any new code or even to fix new bugs, the features are added to the new system instead. ... --...
What do you mean by learning? Because there is much to learn from legacy systems with "easy, boring and time consuming". For example, if this is easy and...
Hi Adam, ... Did you try it both ways? Did they ever introduce errors, or fail to fix bugs, in the legacy code? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Sometimes you...
Working with a team that was transitioning to Agile, I noticed that pairing did not make sense for a department that was left in the maintenance of legacy code...
Nicely said. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:46 PM, George Dinwiddie ... -- -- Adam www.dymitruk.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi Kay, CSM is not the only Scrum certification available on the market. You may also want to check http://scrum.org/ Certifications. Much better IMHO and you...
Do you have a place/moment in the company to share knowledge? A way that you could talk about practices? This way you can start sharing knowledge about short...
When asked how much agile certification I know , I mention being trained by someone who worked with martin Fowler at thoughtworks and the other roles I have...
Hi Kay, ... Good question. Answer not clear. There are organizations who require a CSM as part of their hiring process. Mostly, we believe that these...
... I hope the company will pay you a lot because seems not to be the best place to work for an agile engineer :-). ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
Hi, Laurent, I must say I hold that endorsement (thank you) and the friendship and support of the people on this list, and those I've met at the various ...
Hi, Adam, I posted here because this group has a refined BS detector. Does a two day workshop + $1200 give any real credibility to an Agile or better yet XP...
