I was curious as to what form of documentation people's requirements take that are included in the backlogs. Does anyone prefer a common template such as the...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Jun 3, 2002 3:31 pm
Bryan- I've used a number of approaches to this, including: --XP stories (although I refuse to write them on paper when I have a perfectly decent computer) ...
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Linda Rising
risingl2000
Jun 3, 2002 4:20 pm
Hi Guys, The nice folks at STQE have sent me a pdf of the article that appeared in their latest issue on Agile Meetings. www.lindarising.org Click on Articles....
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Jun 3, 2002 11:07 pm
Linda, An excellent article that captures the spirit of the short daily Scrums. I particularly liked when "poof" happened. Ken ... From: Linda Rising...
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Linda Rising
risingl2000
Jun 3, 2002 11:11 pm
Poof is good :-)! Linda...
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Paul Hodgetts
agilelogic
Jun 4, 2002 1:45 am
... Our Product Owner/Customer wrote the requirements as light weight use cases (similar to Constantine's essential use cases or Cockburn's casual format)....
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kschwaber
Jun 6, 2002 1:50 pm
I'm going to try to organize user groups in Boston and New York City this summer, to start up in the fall. I'm looking for interested people or organizations...
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alice.o'hanlon@...
alice.o'hanlon@...
Jun 7, 2002 2:22 pm
Hallelujah - Common Sense! Alice S. O'Hanlon Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Success Begins With IDEAS! Inter-District Enterprise Application Solutions ...
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alice.o'hanlon@...
alice.o'hanlon@...
Jun 7, 2002 3:11 pm
I will be out of the office starting 06/07/2002 and will not return until 06/10/2002. I will be picking up email in the evenings of 6/07 and periodically...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Jun 29, 2002 11:41 pm
Hi, My name is Ken Schwaber. I'm trying to form, or reform, or integrate with an existing, agile user group in New England, primarily based in the Boston area....
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 8, 2002 11:14 am
Some in this list may be interested in this workshop: "Self-Organisation and Evolution of Social Behaviour." http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/events/monteverita2002/ ...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 8, 2002 11:19 am
(I know most of the people subscribed to this list belong to the Extreme Programming mailing list, but just in case some of you missed this posting at the...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Jul 8, 2002 12:39 pm
Mike, I congratulate your focus. We are in danger of this being thought and whittled to death. Like the movie, "Death by a Thousand Blows." I had a similar...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 8, 2002 1:41 pm
Ken: What a joy to read your XP 2002 speech. I wish I would have been there. It is certainly inspiring, provocative and gets the point across: Agile is...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Jul 8, 2002 3:00 pm
A huge problem results from software developers (and certainly development managers) having been trained over the past 20 years or so to want to write down a...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Jul 8, 2002 4:47 pm
Mike, I'll have to remember these two tasks (3 and 4) for my next project. What a parody! Barry Boehm and a lot of other respected people like him are the...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Jul 8, 2002 5:17 pm
You're right. I was shocked to Boehm speaking at XPUniverse but I'll be anxious to hear what he has to say. The Spiral Model definitely was a major...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 9, 2002 8:53 am
Mike: Well said: the intellectual baggage of _defined_ processes carried over from previous lives, projects, related experience, and education causes for most ...
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Jonas Bengtsson
caelumse
Jul 9, 2002 9:40 am
Mike, Mike, Everybody: I like these. Can't someone put together a nice article that describe these, and similar, in length? As an anti-pattern (of course :-) )...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 9, 2002 10:04 am
... Ken: I didn't have the courage to put it quite on these words, but yes, I wholeheartedly agree. If people hear believable misconceptions, half truths, or...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Jul 9, 2002 10:37 am
MIke, Linda Rising is the bard and songstress of agile. I hope she takes these from village to village so people understand better. Ken ... From: Mike Beedle...
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mpoppendieck
Jul 9, 2002 12:00 pm
I have a couple of observations. Observation 1: Every movement I know of – Just-in-Time, Quality, Lean Manufacturing, Theory of Constraints, you name it –...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Jul 9, 2002 4:42 pm
You're right, Mike! I've heard that quote before and it is totally appropriate in this case as well. It already seems like "agile" has become the decade's new...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Jul 9, 2002 4:52 pm
Mike- The differences you describe here are perfect. Somewhat to Mary's point about needing to trust managers, though, sometimes this isn't the manager's or...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Jul 10, 2002 2:50 pm
FYI-here's a new article on our beloved Scrum: http://www.fawcette.com/resources/managingdev/methodologies/scrum/ --Mike...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 11, 2002 10:46 am
... better ... basic of ... levels of ... Grady: (Thanks for your response when I wrote the first "Agile Software Development Revolution" and "Agile Rentschian...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 11, 2002 11:21 am
... Imo, it goes both ways. It is a self-constant solution in the mathematical meaning, an a Gestalt like solution in the cognitive sense: Practices...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 11, 2002 12:10 pm
... But I meant "self-consistent" not "self-constant" ... Self-consistent solutions of course depend on rapid feedback of inspection --> adaptation, - Mike...
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Booch, Grady
egb@...
Jul 11, 2002 2:11 pm
... [egb> ] The power of self-organizing systems does indeed have an interesting basis of theory behind it. I've followed with great interest the work on chaos...
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Mike Beedle
beedlem
Jul 11, 2002 4:55 pm
... Grady: I disagree. I have been running Scrum teams for 6 years and about 2 years of Scrum and XP mixed together, and I have never felt stronger, and more...
