... Are you referring to the financial requirements to determine whether development expense is considered an R&D line-item, or a SAG line-item? (where R&D...
... No but the Yahoo archive is near impossible to search - since you have to click 'more...' (or next) for every few hundred messages searched (not results -...
Hi All, I currently lead a small team of 7 developers and one dba. We work on small to enterprise size applications using J2EE and PHP. I would like to hire a...
Hi Mike, ... I don't think it was me, but never mind. ... No, the rule I use is that the team has to be prepared for the planning meeting, which I measure by...
Hi Mike, ... See my previous post, this is an example where you pained a worse picture of yourself. ... Was the story properly sized? Rule of the thumb is that...
... on small to enterprise size applications using J2EE and PHP. I would like to hire a QA engineer to join the team. However, my boss told me that he thinks...
... Yes. We did this in the past iteration. I think it worked very well. Basically we mixed "planning stories" into the general mix. THis allows us to...
I respectfully disagree. What you need is a versatile person who can work as a developer and in the process teach your developers what they all need to know...
I second Gordons remarks. A QA person might help on an enterprise level but not on a team level. Here you need people who working with the team doing TESTs...
Boris and Steve, I respectfully disagree with you two on this :) I agree that making QA/test the responsibility of a single individual is wrong. The goal is...
http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/02/01/2117240.shtml reads: I am in the somewhat unique position of being a technology worker, who lives outside of the...
It seems the various agile methodologies share some common themes, one of which is empowering the team by using the natural abilities of each member. If this...
I do not want to argue :)) What I would like to add -- Scrum Master is the QA Person 1.) QA is responsible for processes and engineering quality standards 2.)...
I agree with Hubert's, "What do your people think?" response. I disagree to varying degrees with the other answers. Our experience is with a smaller team (4.5...
On this thread... I'd say the TEAM is responsible for QA. Mike www.michaelvizdos.com Thank you,
- mike ... From: "David H." <dmalloc@...> Date: Thu, 02...
For a team of this size, I would add a QA person. But not a QA person in the more traditional sense (aka black box tester who writes long test docs and clicks...
Experienced and comfortable working with Microsoft Development technologies. Experience using the test capabilities in Visual Studio would be a real plus. *...
... Don't you think it matters what kind of product you have? If it's a compiler or a math library then it's potentially completely automatable. Many other...
In the same vein: the following article talks about "generalizing specialists" and may be of interest as part of this discussion. Follow the link to Scott...
... oddly enough I posted about it on another thread. However a good FAQ is still worthwhile. I'm happy to get going on the wiki if anyone has any items that...
Victor, Great to hear ScrumAlliance is looking for Scrum success stories. We just released a new client to production. A financial service provider that...
... Well, I'd say there isn't a single answer that will work in all teams and with all products. I would point out one thing though, your boss telling you how...
I must say, this sounds very interesting. Especially the way scrum was leveraged on non-it sections of your company. I don't suppose some people in your...
There are a few spots available for our Certified ScrumMaster course being held Thursday and Friday, February 16th and 17th in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. This...
