Message: 16 Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 02:14:33 -0000 From: "kentlbeck" <kentbeck@...> Subject: Re: Offshoring XP ... beneficial/recommended XP ... of the ... ...
... My honest opinion is that you should try to educate your coworkers about this kind of false truths. You could try mentioning this after some time has...
... personal plan, ... shore ... position. I ... software ... Did you mean to imply that offshoring, selling cancer-causing products, and pushing drugs occupy...
... Not entirely. Mostly that I choose to take certain positions. But partly, yes. I know people who have put their entire lives into working for some company,...
It sounds like the motivation behind this developer has nothing to do with building or CVS. In my opinion, this developer wants to draw a box around...
Although, if you have a graphing class library available (we use Sitraka's JClass Char), it's nearly as easy - and you get alot more control - Excel can, at...
... More important is to have a set of libraries whose dependancy tree is not cyclic. Having all the source accessible in ClearCase or CVS can result in big...
Hi, I don't know if this will help sort out the debate much, but on our project we had that binary that was delivered by an external person and that we kept...
... [ regarding building BVCs manually or automatically ] ... Maybe I'll keep disagreeing with Ron, then ... :-) -- Edmund Schweppe -- schweppe@... --...
Edmund Schweppe
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... I might be a little bit concerned about team dynamics if charts automatically generated by the team were considered less believable than charts manually...
Edmund Schweppe
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From our experience there is no good reason not to have machine built charts, they come for free from the PVCS, UT, and Earned Value tracking systems. What...
... Yes, I'll be looking to do that if/when I update the page, as I hope to do if my computer ever comes back ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Testing...
Hi Doug, Here are some thoughts that come to mind after reading your note. It seems like there is a confrontational attitude there. Would it be possible to...
I would rather require the discipline (and perhaps jdepends with junit in the build). In my experience pre-built, team-owned binaries, leads to confusion and...
As far as offshoring occupying a similar moral position as selling cancer-causing products and pushing drugs, I would have to say yes, but not for the reason...
... And thanks for it, as well! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com If names and real items do not correspond with each other, there will be fighting. -- Jing Fa...
... Is the fully loaded-cost comparison really an apples-to-apples comparison? In other words: when factoring the cost of internal development, do they add in...
I believe the history of CNC provides similar examples: it was *not* initially advantageous to replace skilled workers with hugely expensive CNC machines; it...
... Is it perhaps that the "steenking plan" needed is solely for the Customer side, and the One Voice the team heeds just needs filter it out (on the...
... Maybe it's me not understanding the more usual applications of 'courage' as a value. To me, it takes courage on the *Customer* side (where the offshoring...
As a New Zealander I had the great experience of bringing Kent down to NZ to lead an XP seminar. As a result we have many competent XP developers. NZ has some...
... It was speculation that unit tests should provide test fixtures that acceptance tests re-use. That would also leverage tom!'s recommendation to use the...
... Well, Latvia is joining the EU this year ... but *India*? Did I miss something? -- Edmund Schweppe -- schweppe@... -- http://schweppe.home.tiac.net ...
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Thanks for the question. This steenking plan[1] isn't just used for the customer though. It is the only internal status/tracking/reporting information the team...
Hi Ron, ... That's my guess, too. IT customers have been frustrated for years by not getting what they wanted. The cost of the not-quite-what-we-wanted...
Hi Mike, ... Then what is leading companies hiring offshore services? What business benefit do they expect to gain? Dale -- Dale Emery -- Consultant --...
