... 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 ...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Sep 2, 2003 3:56 pm
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
jhartmann@...
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...
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Tiseo, Paul
alphadog4
Sep 2, 2003 6:09 pm
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...
1818
rwaltersiii
Sep 2, 2003 6:11 pm
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...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Sep 8, 2003 7:41 am
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, ... ...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Sep 8, 2003 7:48 am
And don't forget Feyerabend -- many important scientific discoveries have been made while _breaking_ the Scientific Method :-), - Mike ... accept that. ... ...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Sep 8, 2003 7:59 am
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->...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Sep 8, 2003 8:28 am
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...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Sep 8, 2003 6:09 pm
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...
1824
Deb
debhart9
Sep 9, 2003 5:43 pm
I'm using Scrum in a "support and development" group, where one Sprint could conceivably produce different software products for two different groups - say,...
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Brad Appleton
bradapp1
Sep 9, 2003 6:32 pm
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...
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Trainor, Charlie
charlietrainor
Sep 9, 2003 8:02 pm
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...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Sep 9, 2003 8:45 pm
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...
1828
David Vydra
dvydra2
Sep 10, 2003 1:34 am
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 ...
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Deb
debhart9
Sep 10, 2003 1:50 pm
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...
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Jeff Sutherland
jsutherland
Sep 10, 2003 3:13 pm
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...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Sep 10, 2003 5:52 pm
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....
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Boris Gloger
borisgloger
Sep 11, 2003 6:41 pm
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...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Sep 11, 2003 7:36 pm
... More references. These two articles _connect_ the original HBR article with the book ("The Knowledge Creating Company"): NONAKA, I (1991), The...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Sep 11, 2003 7:45 pm
... More on Ba here: http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/cpace/ht/thonglipfei/ba_concept.html...
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Hubert
hubert_smits
Sep 11, 2003 7:47 pm
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...
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Boris Gloger
borisgloger
Sep 14, 2003 9:40 am
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...
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Ken Schwaber
kschwaber
Sep 14, 2003 5:48 pm
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...
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jatsysinfife
Sep 15, 2003 10:38 am
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 ...
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Mike
mikeborozdin
Sep 15, 2003 11:41 pm
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...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Sep 16, 2003 1:41 am
... 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...
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Ken Schwaber
kschwaber
Sep 16, 2003 1:48 am
Try amazon ... From: jatsysinfife [mailto:john@...] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 6:39 AM To: scrumdevelopment@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
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Mike
mikeborozdin
Sep 16, 2003 2:33 am
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...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Sep 16, 2003 3:12 am
... I think the dll feature isn't a feature, it's an implementation detail. Recall that in Scrum, when a feature is scheduled, the TEAM commits to the feature....
