... The ISO model that predicts continuous improvement talks about: Plan, Do, Check, Act. Different words, same intentions?!? Just a thought.... Anko Tijman ...
... It is just like the problem with ISO-900X quality systems. The concept was designed to create a system that attempts to stabilize quality by ensuring ...
Kevin, My point always was that effective software engineering requires both technical competence and something that is outside the scope of CS and CE: the...
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Julio Hartmann
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Sep 2, 2003 5:17 pm
Maybe in other fields people are more fammiliar with applying the scientific method by doing empirical experimentation. However, it seems to me that computer...
Well, maybe I didn't make myself clear, but *proper and well-designed* engineering processes invariably take into account the people dimension. They have to do...
I recently obtained the latest Scrum Excel add-in and user guide from the Scrum Alliance web site. It is not clear to me when and how one should update the...
Steven: The "knowledge arguement" is, btw, also the Scrum arguement. Ken and I talk about it in the Scrum book. See Ch 6 section 5, - Mike ... argument, ... ...
And don't forget Feyerabend -- many important scientific discoveries have been made while _breaking_ the Scientific Method :-), - Mike ... accept that. ... ...
Probably equivalent, and similar if not equivalent to the Daily and Sprint Scrum cycles: Scrum Daily Cycle: Report->Self-Organize (i.e. adhoc Plan)->Pair->...
Sorry for the "argument" misspells. What I really meant was: ... arghhhhument ;-) Where is the friendly spell-checker when you need it? Not in the Yahoo...
Then, I must have read that when I read your book several months ago. It must have planted a seed that was fertilized when I read Phil Armour's articles about...
I'm using Scrum in a "support and development" group, where one Sprint could conceivably produce different software products for two different groups - say,...
Hi Deb! What good timing! Myself and Steve Berczuk have a monthly column on "Agile" Configuration Management at CMCrossroads.com. Our August column was on the...
Deb, Excellent question. I'd say "it depends". If you have two customers for the same basic product, then Brad's answer applies - you either need a product...
Deb: I take it that there are "shared stories" in your Scrum implementation? It is tricky, but possible to satisfy multiple projects/clients that have Shared...
Mike, We have setup a feed for yahoo groups on testdriven.com. This way you can read messages without commercials and reply via your email client that ...
Hi Rusty... Backlog estimates are adjusted when items are assigned to a Sprint. This is because the initial estimate is made in a bit of a vacuum, but the...
I agree totally with Mary on this. Anyone who applies the scientific method to the waterfall process will prove repeatedly that it is totally broken, highly...
Steven: My comment is by no means a hit on Phil's work. From what I have heard about Phil's work, he has "independently rediscovered" many of these things....
Yes - but only if you mean the Scientific Method of the respective time. Feyerabend did mean that the next "level" can only be reached if you break the...
All, There are only a few places left on the upcoming ScrumMaster training in Edinburgh, so I thought I give you a warning in case you wanted to attend. Here...
Hi Ken, this question might be interesting for the other attendees also - I browsed through the training slides csm.pdf. Will you really go through all 216...
The training course (CSM) is so complete because you can take it for your own purposes to compose courses and presentations of your own. The training will be...
Hi All, My head is already scratching and no it's no because of little crawly friends :-). Are any of you other guys having trouble getting the book? It seems ...
I am curious how people reflect dependencies between tasks on SCRUM backlog list. It doesn't seem like the backlog spreadsheets that I've seen in the past had...
... If I did Scrum instead of XP I would do just what I do in XP. 1. I ignore dependencies. 2. I observe that customers usually ask for the right dependent...
Thanks for the reply. Let me clarify my question: Say you have component a.dll, developed by one programmer and an exe b.exe which happens to be developed by...
