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...
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Adam Dymitruk
adymitruk
Dec 24, 2012 8:01 pm
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]...
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Adam Dymitruk
adymitruk
Dec 24, 2012 8:20 pm
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...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 24, 2012 8:45 pm
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...
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Leonardo Postacchini
notivago
Dec 24, 2012 8:46 pm
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...
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Adam Dymitruk
adymitruk
Dec 24, 2012 9:21 pm
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. ... --...
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Adam Dymitruk
adymitruk
Dec 24, 2012 9:22 pm
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...
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Kay A Pentecost
tranzpuppy
Dec 26, 2012 1:26 pm
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...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 26, 2012 2:10 pm
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...
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Kay A Pentecost
tranzpuppy
Dec 26, 2012 3:55 pm
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...
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Kay
tranzpuppy
Dec 26, 2012 5:10 pm
... Thank you. ... *I* don't .... and didn't think Agile is academic. And I knew several of the signatories were working developers... ... <grin>...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 26, 2012 5:50 pm
Kay, ... Click "close & read first answer" -- ... * George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com Software Development...
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Kay
tranzpuppy
Dec 26, 2012 6:51 pm
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...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 26, 2012 9:15 pm
Kay, ... I had other links below that. - George ... -- ... * George Dinwiddie * http://blog.gdinwiddie.com Software Development...
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Kay
tranzpuppy
Dec 27, 2012 5:41 pm
Hey, George, ... <snip> ... Yes, you did! More interesting and valuable things to read.... Thanks! Kay...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Dec 27, 2012 11:57 pm
Hey, Kay, can you drop me a line? Tim Ottinger <tottinge@...> http://industriallogic.com/ http://agileotter.blogspot.com/...
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Rob Myers
xyphrnld0x
Dec 28, 2012 12:19 am
Kay, ... Ah, okay. Let's see, I started programming for a living around 1984... In 1997 I was looking for a way out of the software industry. I was...
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Tom Rossen
rossentj
Dec 28, 2012 4:50 am
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...
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Tom Rossen
rossentj
Dec 28, 2012 4:54 am
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...
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JeffGrigg
jeffgrigg63132
Dec 28, 2012 4:55 am
... 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...
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Rob Myers
xyphrnld0x
Dec 28, 2012 8:30 pm
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...
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Kay
tranzpuppy
Dec 28, 2012 8:50 pm
Yes, I owe you two... as soon as I get home. Kay...
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Kay
tranzpuppy
Dec 28, 2012 8:53 pm
Rob, this is exactly the kind of thing I wanted... Thanks so much!! Kay...
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JeffGrigg
jeffgrigg63132
Dec 30, 2012 1:31 am
An important paper by Microsoft research was referenced indirectly in on e of the current threads. It is "Realizing quality improvement through test driven ...
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Dave Smith
dwsmtnview
Dec 30, 2012 4:18 am
Even if they were shooting from the hip, it still reads better to turn their numbers around. By using normal development practices instead of TDD, teams can...
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pooya shahbazian
pooya.shahba...
Dec 30, 2012 4:49 am
hi jeff thanks for introducing the paper. Â Pooya Shahbazian http://www.pooyablog.blogfa.com ________________________________ From: JeffGrigg...
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Adam Sroka
adam.sroka@...
Dec 30, 2012 6:24 am
Nice! And closely matches my own observations in the field. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Dec 30, 2012 10:33 am
Pooya, ... If you're interested in such papers, you might find http://biblio.gdinwiddie.com/biblio/StudiesOfTestDrivenDevelopment of use. There are a few other...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 30, 2012 11:11 am
Hi Jeff, Good stuff. ... What is unfortunate in these studies, and in all the studies I've seen, is that they seem to be estimating the time to produce...
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M. Manca
micronpn
Dec 30, 2012 11:25 am
Il 30/12/2012 02:31, JeffGrigg ha scritto: Hi Jeff, I have similar results about quality but about cost I have a reduction between 25% to 45% compared with...
