William and Steven Thank you for the input !! Actually you pinned down the problem.. we are relatively newbies in XP.. We started off by adopting iterative...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jul 1, 2003 1:07 pm
... Not exactly prototyping, but experiments. Mostly I recommend starting with the real program. And thinking. And doing experiments to eliminate risk. So if...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jul 1, 2003 1:11 pm
(There was a recent thread where a team said they were in a similar situation but claimed to be experienced XP developers. They could not present any code to...
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haralds@...
Jul 1, 2003 1:14 pm
I am doing a study with XP at a company, and we are now in our first iteration. A problem that occurs is that every now and then "panic tasks" that must be...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Jul 1, 2003 2:05 pm
... Well, you have to start somewhere. Bravo for trying! ... Ideal? A clean slate, a new project, at least 25% of the developers experienced with XP....
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Brian Christopher Rob...
bcrtrw
Jul 1, 2003 5:22 pm
... This is where you refactor. Try the refactoring YahooGroup is you're having trouble with that. You can also try the VirtualPair YahooGroup for general...
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Steve Berczuk
berczuk
Jul 1, 2003 6:09 pm
... Another factor that people who distrust YAGNI is fear that once code is in the system it will /never/ go away. XP(-ish) development works to avoid this;...
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June Clarke
joonspoon
Jul 1, 2003 6:41 pm
Carlton Nettleton's excellent presentation on The Planning Game will be continued at XPSD’s next meeting! We did not get to completely finish the game so the...
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Jeff Grigg
jeffgrigg63132
Jul 1, 2003 7:05 pm
... Old code never dies. It never goes away. Revoking existing functionality can be a remarkably difficult and dangerous thing to do: It can be somewhere...
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basem415
Jul 1, 2003 7:16 pm
I've got confusion between release planning and iteration planning where both have the same activities cycle. can any one tell me what is the difference?...
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Phlip
phlipcpp
Jul 1, 2003 7:29 pm
... Some products, such as the control for the shuttle's main rocket engines, should only release once a year. Some products, such as the algorithm in Google's...
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yahoogroups@...
jhrothjr
Jul 1, 2003 7:54 pm
... From: "basem415"; <basem415.at.yahoo.com@...> To: "extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com" ...
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Mark Striebeck
markstriebeck
Jul 1, 2003 7:55 pm
Hi, I am looking for a tool that can collect and report in a matrix-type fashion the results of test runs on several system/platforms. The one that I know...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Jul 1, 2003 8:06 pm
... If I take code out and tests break it was necessary. Otherwise it was unnecessary. If I take code out and no tests break and your code breaks then write ...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Jul 1, 2003 8:15 pm
If you want a tool that will help you write tests as well as report them nicely, look into http://fit.c2.com You could also look at http://fitnesse.org for a...
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Erik Hanson
hanson_erik
Jul 1, 2003 8:25 pm
... I'd like to second this. If you have nobody on the team who has done XP, either in real life or in a workshop, then you'll have a hard time convincing...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Jul 1, 2003 9:24 pm
You can: a) estimate the panic task and negotiate with the customer to pull out the same amount of work. b) absorb the panic task into your velocity. I would...
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Jeff Grigg
jeffgrigg63132
Jul 1, 2003 9:28 pm
... Correct. To safely remove unnecessary generality or functionality, you must test all functionality that might have used it after making the change. But if...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Jul 1, 2003 9:34 pm
... Actually, if you are doing TDD then removing unwanted generality is impossible since you can't remove what you can't find :>D -- ====================== ...
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yahoogroups@...
jhrothjr
Jul 1, 2003 9:38 pm
... From: "Erik Hanson" <yahoogroups.at.e.lafromage.com@...> To: "extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com" ...
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Curtis Cooley
TheDarkSavant
Jul 1, 2003 9:51 pm
... This reminds me of the discussion I was in at Agile Universe on "Are Design Patterns Dead?" Personally I thought Martin Fowler had put this topic to rest...
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Jeff Grigg
jeffgrigg63132
Jul 1, 2003 11:55 pm
... And you can't change it? ... Do iterations end on different days of the week each time? Man; that would be confusing. No? ;-> You measure development...
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Erik Hanson
hanson_erik
Jul 2, 2003 12:43 am
... Nope. I have repeatedly offered my opinions, suggestions and guidance. I try to offer fixed-duration iterations as a solution to various problems when I ...
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Edmund Schweppe
schweppe@...
Jul 2, 2003 12:53 am
Over the last few days, I've read through a couple of lengthy tomes: Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_ and the SWECC's Guide to the SWEBOK, both for the first time....
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Keith Ray
attkeithray
Jul 2, 2003 1:49 am
Someone was talking about "Daily Iterations" at the Agile SWD Conference in Salt Lake City... ... -- C. Keith Ray ...
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Paul Hodgetts
agilelogic
Jul 2, 2003 4:08 am
A new tutorial was recently added to the upcoming XP Agile Universe 2003 conference schedule for Sunday afternoon, August 10th. The Agile Customer's Toolkit...
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Vijay Krishnan
vijaykrishnan@...
Jul 2, 2003 6:02 am
... From: "Erik Hanson" <yahoogroups@...> To: <extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:55 AM Subject: Re: [XP] YAGNI...
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Nick Holt
nickersan
Jul 2, 2003 7:20 am
Hi Mark I assume you've looked at the JUnitReport task for Ant. Unfortunately it doesn't have quite as much information in the one report as DART seems to ...
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Piergiuliano Bossi
pgbossi
Jul 2, 2003 7:35 am
... Right, but this is true whether you are using gummy bears, ideal time, actual time, etc. The real difference is that in terms of effort, actual time...
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Ilja Preuss
ipreussde
Jul 2, 2003 7:52 am
Hi, ... The only one I am aware of is Mozilla Tinderbox: http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.html Don't know about Ant/Junit integration, though. Regards, Ilja...
