Over the last several years our focus has been on internet(HTML/AJAX), 3-tier, and RESTFULL applications. This architecture drives our focus on the plumbing...
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Amol Patki
amol_patki
Nov 22, 2011 1:32 am
Hi Muralif, we are experimenting with following project/contract composition: Prodcut backlog will be owned by compay A onsite including requirements / design...
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Ram Srinivasan
ram_eagle2k
Nov 22, 2011 1:32 am
Hello fellow agilists: Some of my thorniest problems have been HR policies, especially annual performance reviews where individuals are recognized and awarded....
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john.slaman@...
john.slaman...
Nov 22, 2011 1:32 am
Given our focus on building Internet (HTML/AJAX), n-tier, and RESTFULL applications...the architecture we're choosing drives our thinking to a functional...
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Sean Corfield
seancorfield
Nov 22, 2011 2:02 am
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Malcolm Anderson < ... Not sure why anyone would assert TDD woud require "OOP and Design Patterns". TDD is just as applicable...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 22, 2011 2:13 am
... TDD requires (or through refactoring encourages... chicken or egg?) a high degree of modularity. It doesn't much matter what the "modules" are. They could...
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Adam Sroka
adamjaph
Nov 22, 2011 3:27 am
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:44 PM, john.slaman@... ... I don't believe functional decomposition and OO are at odds. Good OO designs have eschewed global...
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Clifford Eutimio D...
decliffy
Nov 22, 2011 4:19 am
Hi Riju, For the specific task, hours it's going to take to get done is the hours entered before the start of sprint...in other words, the initial estimate. ...
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devesh.kumar@...
devesh_ku
Nov 22, 2011 5:48 am
Thank you Bradley. It does help me. In fact the below one inhibits me taking the PM report. I will write in detail. From: Charles Bradley - Scrum Coach CSM PSM...
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jamesjhawkins
Nov 22, 2011 11:32 am
Thanks for all the kind words, folks. In response to some of the comments... ... Good point. I'm certainly not in favour of comprehensive documentation, unless...
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Angel Java Lopez
ajlopez2000
Nov 22, 2011 12:58 pm
Another distributed experience: http://blogs.southworks.net/aschapiro/2011/10/04/agilesbsas-distributed-agile-teams/ ...
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Malcolm Anderson
malcolm9999
Nov 22, 2011 2:49 pm
... Riju You say "it is very clear that we want to avoid this loss of information." What are you going to do with this information. If you are not going to do...
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Mark Levison
marklevison
Nov 22, 2011 10:31 pm
This is a brief now because I'm writing from the back of a cab. Daily Standup's primary purpose is to coordinate activities among team members. Any reporting...
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Seyit Caglar Abbasoglu
scabbasoglu
Nov 23, 2011 1:52 am
On another point of view, whether he's uber or not, a scrummaster is a full-time member of a scrum team. So she might not provide a view-point of an outsider,...
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v_balamurugan
Nov 26, 2011 8:52 pm
I precisely had the same question in my mind, looking forward to see few replies....
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slashrsm1
Nov 26, 2011 8:52 pm
My name is Janez Urevc. I am a student at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. Under the supervision of professor Mahnič...
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ag12340@...
ag12340...
Nov 26, 2011 8:52 pm
So we add 1.5 more people (1 Scrum Master + 0.5 Coach) to a 7 people team and MAY BE get 30-40% increase in team's productivity over a year or two. Is the cost...
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ag12340@...
ag12340...
Nov 26, 2011 8:52 pm
I am new to Scrum. Attended 2 day training. my title: dev manager current process: requirements doc, arch and design, iterative and incremental dev, handoff to...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Nov 26, 2011 9:38 pm
What is the reason why you think Scrum will help? Are your customers or users clamoring for more content sooner? How large is your outstanding defect list? ...
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Laurent Bossavit
morendilfoo
Nov 26, 2011 10:46 pm
... You have not yet earned the right to make the kind of promises to your management that you report making. Tell yourself this: that in 2 days what you have...
Here's the book _Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What To Do Instead_: ...
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woynam
Nov 28, 2011 4:37 pm
We typically use a 3 month rolling average when calculating velocity. Given that a team gets zero points for a story that isn't finished at the end of Sprint,...
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mj4scrum@...
michaeljames...
Nov 28, 2011 6:07 pm
Agree. We'd see better implementations of Scrum, with more of the benefits, if everyone focused a lot more on *done* and a lot less on velocity. --mj Sent from...
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Sten
sten.johnsen
Nov 29, 2011 11:52 am
I do have an issue with the average velocity concept. In my team (I'm a Scrum Master for one team of 9 people not including myself and the PO) they insist on...
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Wouter Lagerweij
wouterla
Nov 29, 2011 1:53 pm
Perhaps you can ask them what they think velocity is used for. Sprints are the unit of planning for a Scrum project. Velocity is used to find out after which...
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jamesjhawkins
Nov 29, 2011 4:21 pm
... Obliquely, I have had the same issue but as PO. It's depressing to feel that you're the only one that cares about quality. It seems to me that this...
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RonJeffries
ronaldejeffries
Nov 29, 2011 4:24 pm
Hi ... What are you people doing about your Definition of DONE? R ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com If another does not intend offense, it is wrong for me...
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David A Barrett
barrettdab
Nov 29, 2011 4:29 pm
What do you do with this "stable velocity"?? I find the the value of these kinds of numbers become counter-productive once you pretend that they have accuracy...
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Pavel
patetobg
Nov 29, 2011 5:05 pm
... [PVG] Velocity is used for release planning. But it is not used to sign a contract that "yes, we will deliver these feature worth of 273 story points in 9...
