Speaking as an XP wannabe... As I see it the coach is focused on the process, not the product. She makes sure that people are not skipping on testing, spots...
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Arrizza, John
john_arrizza@...
May 1, 2000 12:48 pm
... How about an end to end IDE? Something that helps you deliver the code from conception to CD. MSDEV seems to concentrate solely on development, but the ...
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Michael D. Hill
uly@...
May 1, 2000 1:15 pm
(Hellie-- Here's my proposed reply.) Frank... ... You and the original poster differ in your opinion on the difficulty. If it's easy, natural, and correct...
4812
wbarr@...
May 1, 2000 1:25 pm
I would collect stories from the DBAs and sysadmins because they are essentially going to give you a list of technical constraints. I would also involve them...
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Michael D. Hill
uly@...
May 1, 2000 1:27 pm
... Hah!! I am so busted. I've been talking a lot with a friend lately about the XP religion problem, so I sent her the letter to gain her reactions. Sorry...
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Frank McGeough
fm@...
May 1, 2000 1:37 pm
Michael, I think my bias -- developing software that is sold to a whole slew (well, hopefully) set of customers, is showing. I don't develop software for a ...
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Kent Quirk
kent_quirk@...
May 1, 2000 2:52 pm
I'd be interested in hearing more on the topic of developing mass-market software, where any individual customer will have a wide variety of interests and...
4816
jkinghorn@...
May 1, 2000 3:39 pm
I am a Process Specialist. My background is in ISO 9000. I have been introducing the Rational Unified Process here, but the feeling is that the process has...
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John Wetherbie
john@...
May 1, 2000 4:54 pm
... about ... Actually, my reason for starting this thread is to address whether the Coach could/should be a Programmer on the project he is coaching. All the...
4818
John Wetherbie
john@...
May 1, 2000 5:00 pm
You are approaching this question from the other direction that I was... I am a programmer and they want me to be the Coach on a project. My concern was that I...
4819
Swatosh, Joe R NWP
joe.r.swatosh@...
May 1, 2000 5:07 pm
... Okay, I'll take a stab at this one. In terms of XP's roles, all those many customers with their many different, conflicting needs, are represented by a ...
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Frank McGeough
fm@...
May 1, 2000 5:57 pm
A small quibble. A lot of companies are international. If you sell them your product they will want it to be able to run equally as well in all the countries...
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Malte Kroeger
kroeger@...
May 1, 2000 6:03 pm
... The coach is responsible for the process and nothing else. But beeing coach is a role. And any person can have several roles. So it's possible to be coach...
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Steve Freeman
steve@...
May 1, 2000 6:17 pm
... From: <jkinghorn@...> To: <extremeprogramming@egroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 4:39 PM ... to repeat the Party Line... what's your...
4823
Ole Andersen
palnatoke@...
May 1, 2000 6:25 pm
Hi all! Who gets to decide which language(s) to use? Is it a pair-by-pair decision, or something to decide on project scale? Ole -- Ole Andersen ...
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Lynn, James
jlynn@...
May 1, 2000 8:01 pm
Okay, I'll take a stab at this one. In terms of XP's roles, all those many customers with their many different, conflicting needs, are represented by a single...
4825
jkinghorn@...
May 1, 2000 8:34 pm
... Our biggest problems right now are: managing requirements (internal customer keeps changing them, but wants them all in first release) lack of sufficient...
4826
jkinghorn@...
May 1, 2000 8:38 pm
... Kent ... I guess I was thinking that if it comes from the process person, it's not grass roots any more....
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Randy Coulman
randyc@...
May 1, 2000 8:43 pm
... For the first and third problems, I think you actually want the Planning Game, for which you will need the User Stories as "game tokens". User Stories...
4828
Andy Glew
glew@...
May 1, 2000 8:46 pm
... Another quibble: I may only use one version, but that is IMHO a design defect. I'd like to have access to many of the disparate internationalization...
4829
Donald F. McLean
dmclean@...
May 1, 2000 8:49 pm
... Not to be contrary, but Unit Tests are only half of the answer - Functional Test are the other. It isn't enough that the program works as designed, it has...
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Randy Coulman
randyc@...
May 1, 2000 8:53 pm
... I think there is a subtle play between two roles here: 1. Someone has to decide that XP (or any other process change) is the way to go. 2. Someone has to...
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Randy Coulman
randyc@...
May 1, 2000 9:00 pm
... You're right, of course. I guess I was thinking more in terms of "Fix your worst problems first", which is the context of the thread. In that context, if...
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Eric Rizzo
eric.rizzo@...
May 1, 2000 9:00 pm
... I don't think that's a valid comparison for several reasons. c.l.object is, by its nature, full of non-XPers. The new XP newsgroup would be far more...
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Eric Rizzo
eric.rizzo@...
May 1, 2000 9:07 pm
... Yes, I agree. That would be ideal. ... Deja provides a service (part of MyDeja) that will let you set up an automatic forward of USENET messages from any...
4834
Steve Freeman
steve@...
May 1, 2000 9:58 pm
... From: <jkinghorn@...> To: <extremeprogramming@egroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [XP] If coach is a programmer, where...
4835
Michael Schneider
michael.schneider@...
May 1, 2000 11:50 pm
We have started to use stakeholder cards in our XP projects. We create one card for every role in the system. You then can look at the system from each of...
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Jen Wu
jen@...
May 2, 2000 2:02 am
I would hope that it would be a group decision -- not just the programmers, but the business folks, too. This assumes that it is not a business requirement, in...
4837
Jen Wu
jen@...
May 2, 2000 2:07 am
My conclusion from the discussion is that localization isn't something decided by XP -- it's decided by the team. I guess a team that's more aware of past...
4838
Jen Wu
jen@...
May 2, 2000 2:24 am
I don't know if a lot has been said for the role of QA, but here are some questions ... Some background ... a sophisticated QA team will do most if not all of ...
