Hi Guys, Just a quickie, about OAOO. Just to clarify something in my mind. I have a class, A, and direct subclasses of A: X, Y and Z. A / | \ (just imagine...
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Bryan Dollery
Bryan.Dollery@...
Sep 3, 2001 11:52 am
How about Fight Club: "I'm am the project managers irritated bowels." Bryan...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Sep 3, 2001 11:24 am
Good report, Roger, thanks! ... ... We had a time on C3 when people would pair for _weeks_. That wasn't so good at all. The tasks were way too big, and at the...
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Roger Lipscombe
rlipscombe@...
Sep 3, 2001 10:01 am
... Right. This is now done, so I'm going to post a quick summary here. Firstly, we restricted the experiment to two days (Wednesday and Thursday this week). ...
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Kerns, Bob
rwk@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:51 am
Ron, you've been known to admit from time to time that XP doesn't really apply to every situation. I haven't seen the discussion in question, but is it...
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Ilja Preuss
I.Preuss@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:31 am
... http://www.topica.com/lists/agilemodeling...
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robert.worth@...
Sep 3, 2001 8:09 am
... Or conversely "A Bridge Too Far" on the dangers of scope creep. Rob...
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Laurent Bossavit
laurent@...
Sep 3, 2001 7:51 am
... I don't see it working that way. The less "bug feedback" you get the more "feature feedback", and vice versa. We aim to ship no bugs so that our customers...
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Andrew Midson
a.midson@...
Sep 3, 2001 6:07 am
... As far as I can tell (from a quick scan of the Planning XP book), yes programmers should know their personal velocity. This is because only the programmer...
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Flavio Diomede
flunfla@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:58 am
Well, I have not read any other messages on this thread, and it is certainly off-topic, but I can suggest starting at http://www.cvshome.org/docs/. Perhaps you...
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Keith Nicholas
keithn@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:15 am
You can do it....you put a lot more effort into Acceptance Testing. Effectively that's what many mission critical systems do....but they spend lots of money to...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:11 am
... Me either. I just upgraded to Office XP on my new computer. It's different, yet again. When will it start making my life better, instead of just different?...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:02 am
... Another way to do this comes to mind, upon second thought: Don't have any bugs. The whole problem goes away if we don't have any bugs. Can we write one...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:00 am
... User Story Add ability for new features from now on to be turned on only by entering a key that is provided when a customer pays the upgrade price. Any...
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Keith Nicholas
keithn@...
Sep 3, 2001 4:00 am
... We do figure out what can go right from the start...If we were perfect and considered all situations that could possibly happen and had tests for them we...
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Dale Emery
dale@...
Sep 3, 2001 3:51 am
Hi Ron, ... Yes. And there will be some time lag between when you cut that out and when the customers come to trust that you've cut that out. In the ...
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Dale Emery
dale@...
Sep 3, 2001 3:44 am
Hi Robert, ... Yes. As far as I can tell, this problem is always difficult to solve, and never solves the problem for everyone. ... Yes. When you do this, be...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Sep 3, 2001 3:32 am
... With the greatest respect, I really tire of hearing how hard it is to do the right things. It's not hard to do the right things: it's hard to recover from...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Sep 3, 2001 3:27 am
... Coulda, woulda, shoulda. Wrong end of the string. The trick isn't to figure out what could go wrong if you could ship any version from any day, the trick...
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Robert Watkins
robertw@...
Sep 3, 2001 3:18 am
... Ah, so it did. In my defence, I plead Monday-morningitis. ... That is very true. However, it needs to be recognised that there is a cost associated with...
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Dale Emery
dale@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:43 am
Hi Robert, ... Buddha's post said that, though the customer installed the system six months ago, the customer discovered the bug only recently. ... It is...
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C. Keith Ray
ckeithray@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:36 am
... Yeah I know, but I don't see anyone crunching numbers, but rather shooting from the hip. This product is a relatively new activity for this company; ...
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Keith Nicholas
keithn@...
Sep 3, 2001 2:03 am
... This creates a release nightmare.....many customers running many different versions. Each version has to be tracked (so you can provide support, retain...
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Ron Jeffries
ronjeffries@...
Sep 3, 2001 12:26 am
... Marvelous post, Robert! Well done! Ronald E Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Accroches-toi a ton reve. --ELO...
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wecaputo@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:44 pm
... Absolutely, I hope I didn't imply otherwise. I merely meant that they would need Java for CC and Ant. ... invoke ... With ... This is exactly what we did...
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Robert Watkins
robertw@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:38 pm
... It's a business decision, Keith. :) Your business presumably charges a lot of money for their product. It also presumably charges a lot of money for the...
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Robert Watkins
robertw@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:24 pm
... It's a Dilbert quote: Dil (sitting in a dressing gown): Dogbert, when I telecommute, do I owe work a full 8 hours? Or do I only owe them the 2 hours of...
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Robert Watkins
robertw@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:20 pm
... While I don't pretend to condone the above behaviour, I will point out a ... Backups, of course. Nightly backups, so you lost at most one day's worth of ...
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Robert Watkins
robertw@...
Sep 2, 2001 11:15 pm
... In the interests of improving the process in the organisation, I would point out several flaws that allowed this situation to come to pass: 1) A defect...
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Robert Watkins
robertw@...
Sep 2, 2001 10:54 pm
... Bear in mind that, while CC and Ant both require Java, you don't actually have to be working in Java to benefit from it. Because Ant can fire command-line...
