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The worst bug in MS Outlook 97 was the difficult internet mail setup. MS observed that by tracking the product support calls. For an average user, entering...
... I've been working on this Adventures in C# book. Chet found honest work for a while -- that will be changing -- so we haven't been able to pair as much....
... Is this an on-going part of IXP, or just a preliminary to XP transition. I presume you'd want to do this on a team by team basis. How is this done in ...
... The definition of project viability is not easy to nail down. For many companies it is simply ROI. However, for others it's something else. Sometimes a...
... If it were me, I'd start by making a story out of it, and then waiting till it got prioritized for the current iteration, and then do XP for it :-) -- Brad...
... It's a feature. After the domain expert figures it out (one who is versed in both naïve user issues and POP/SMTP/IMAP etc.), they will deliver line-item ...
Hi Dave, Dropping Courage from our listed values was a difficult choice. In an earlier version, we included both Courage and Feedback, as well as a few "new"...
... <snip> ... I don't think I properly conveyed my point. Let me try again. What I meant was to put the failing test case in Bugzilla against the bug report...
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May 1, 2003 1:35 am
Ron Jeffries wrote: [ ... ] ... [ ... ] ... Wow ... even your sense of humor is Chet's fault! -- Edmund Schweppe -- schweppe@... --...
David, Good comments. On the last one about selling XP into large organizations, I have some thoughts. What if I am at a large organization but I'm in a...
Hi Mike, ... You may want some explicit way to sort out which projects to do, and to balance your organization's energy across projects over time. How do you...
I responded to the article on my blog. See: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3229193365 ... <Talk Small and Carry a Big...
Josh, Thanks for your responses. As far as having somebody from OM or IL come in for a talk with management I have a few thoughts: We did have somebody from...
Ron, As far as documenting the points, we keep track of our stories, both estimates and actuals on those large post-it wall sheets. We have what we call our...
(I couldn't resist having some word fun with the subject line) We're setting up the build environment for a new project. I have lots of experience with the CVS...
OK, pairing. First, our teams that do XP or partial XP seem to like pairing and want to do it. However, management, knowing of course that "pairing can't...
Uncle Bob writes ... Yeah, it's tricky to nail down project viability. And as I said on the ixp list, I now see Viability Assessment as a sub-practice of...
... IL's business is quite healthy. One reason for it is this: XP helps companies save money. That's popular right now. If no one there can help the...
... Readiness Assessment is a practice that divides into Change Readiness - is the team, project and organization ready for a change and all that it entails? ...
... Russ gave a good response. I'll add to it. What if your next project began with a search for your team's agile values? The team can no more than 5 value....
I need some advice. We have a J2EE app that we wish to port to a new application server. The trouble is, while the Customer wants this ASAP, we don't...
... The question is, by which metric are pairs more productive? Do two people pairing produce more lines of fully-debugged code per unit time than two people...
... I say this periodically: Heavy methodologies can work better than no methodology. A surprisingly large number of software projects have no real ...
Hi Charles! ... So not just remedy/repair, but also prevention. How do you store/capture the prevention information and/or circulate it to the rest of the...
... Interesting. Who does the "capturing" in this case? If I have enough information to code a test-case which fails, do I safely assume I can know what the...
... I suppose it might depend on the definition of "need" :-) I happen to live in such an organization. And when the majority of the projects are large and...
... I have experience with Aegis and Cook. Cook is great compared to traditional Make. But it is a new "make" language to learn and master. ... I haven't used...
