... Jeff, I am also interested in type C but don't fully understand how it works. My questions are numerous, but I believe you once told me that work is...
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William Pietri
william_pietri
Jan 2, 2005 8:27 pm
... Hi, Todd! Sorry for the slow reply; I was traveling. That room was set up for one customer and four developers. We could have added a third pair at the...
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Jean Tabaka
jeantabaka
Jan 3, 2005 2:55 am
It has been great following this list over the past year. I look forward to more lively discussion and growth and fun in 2005. Thanks all, Jean _____ From:...
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Balaji C.R
balajicr@...
Jan 3, 2005 4:07 am
Hi All: Wishing you all a very Happy New Year. Balaji..CR ... From: Jean Tabaka [mailto:jet@...] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 8:25 AM To:...
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Tobias Mayer
tobiasgmayer
Jan 3, 2005 5:38 pm
Me too. This list has been an excellent and exciting source of information, full of interesting connections and glorius "Aha!" moments. I have learned a great...
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Jiri Lundak
jiri_lundak
Jan 3, 2005 11:19 pm
William, Thanks for your input. ... The work load is highly assymetric indeed (by a factor of 12, to be precise). And shared components are the norm, because...
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Jiri Lundak
jiri_lundak
Jan 3, 2005 11:23 pm
Paul, ... Interesting perspective. A pre-requisit would be that there is something like a strategy in the company. It maybe is more difficult to build a...
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Jiri Lundak
jiri_lundak
Jan 3, 2005 11:38 pm
Hi Ron, Thank you for the pointer. I read that metaphor some time back and never thought I would come into a situation, where I would find myself in a similar...
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Jiri Lundak
jiri_lundak
Jan 3, 2005 11:43 pm
Hi William, ... Thank you for the encouragement. The team has spoken. We will not go the build something new from scratch in parallel route. Instead the team...
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Jiri Lundak
jiri_lundak
Jan 4, 2005 12:12 am
Jeff, Tanks you for your short 'note'. Paul has already put together some of the questions on my list, so I will only post what addionally pops up in my mind: ...
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Jiri Lundak
jiri_lundak
Jan 4, 2005 12:31 am
Hi Clark, a) Unfortunately for us our company, as many do, has won a bid for this project on a fixed price contract basis. So we get a big sum of money,...
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Jiri Lundak
jiri_lundak
Jan 4, 2005 12:40 am
Hi Mike, Thanks for the pointer. Some questions that I have: 1. What do is the difference between a Shared Resources Scrum Master and a 'normal' (is there...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Jan 4, 2005 2:21 am
Let me try to catch up with this. We are asking, I think, how to take an existing system (aka ugly old un-maintainable) and make it neat, new, and manageable. ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jan 4, 2005 3:11 am
... I would do it by following the publication practices in the Petition the King article: I'd publish what I was doing and make it clear that I wasn't doing...
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mike.dwyer1@...
protraveler1
Jan 4, 2005 3:52 pm
Ron is absolutely on the money. Traditional Program/Project Management approaches handle Ron's suggestion during the scoping and definition phase by having a...
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mike.dwyer1@...
protraveler1
Jan 4, 2005 3:52 pm
Ron Jeffries wrote " Think! -- Aretha Franklin " Does that mean she was an admirer of Thomas Watson? or was he a fan of hers? -- Mike Dwyer "I Keep six...
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the_heidster
Jan 5, 2005 2:35 am
Hi Everyone, I am new to the group and to Scrum. I have read most of Ken's 2 books and other Agile principals and have had the intellectual epiphany and have...
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Joel
klondike1948
Jan 5, 2005 3:30 am
I have never managed a re-write project before, so perhaps my answer is naive, but here goes anyway. I disagree with some other respondents. I think that you...
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Mike Dwyer
protraveler1
Jan 5, 2005 3:32 am
Great! Remember though that the business owner is the boss and should rank the functions ( an interesting term ) deemed most important. I would suggest that...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Jan 5, 2005 3:39 am
Hi-- There's no definitive answer. You want to define the backlog items you'll do soon in more detail than ones you won't do for awhile. My general guideline ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jan 5, 2005 3:50 am
... I'd wager a week's pay that for any proposed "ALL previous functionality" project, I can find at least one chunk of functionality that they don't really...
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Kristan Vingrys
kvingrys
Jan 5, 2005 4:12 am
I think you missed one important point about the assumption of Agile and priority, "The user might want the system before it is finished". In this case it...
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Charles Prakash Dasari
raodcp
Jan 5, 2005 6:33 am
Hi All, I am a lurker in this group for sometime now, and have been fascinated by Scrum as a project management methodology. Following the conversations in...
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Angelo Schneider
angelo_schne...
Jan 5, 2005 10:47 am
Hi, ... The idea of SCRUM is to have a "mini alpha version" after each sprint. ... This limitation is only in your mind, IMHO. E.g. surely you do not need all...
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the_heidster
Jan 5, 2005 1:22 pm
Hi Mike, Thanks so much for your response. I had actually downloaded the excerpt from your book, Ch 2 Writing Stories and it was very helpful. But I did...
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the_heidster
Jan 5, 2005 2:45 pm
Folks - I am creating my first product backlog. I know that the estimate for each requirement/feature should be done in days. Questions, do I just add up the...
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tsteele3rt
Jan 5, 2005 3:19 pm
What are the Formalizing Scrum Chronicles? The Formalizing Scrum Chronicles (FSC) will be a series of posts to the Scrum mailing list detailing my attempt at...
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woynam
Jan 5, 2005 3:47 pm
The key sentence is that all the functionality *may* be needed. I've seen plenty of features that were never used, but they simply *had* to be there. Often,...
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woynam
Jan 5, 2005 4:08 pm
'Just a little background on my experience with rewrites. I've been at my current position for 7+ years, and joined the company to work on a rewrite of our...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jan 5, 2005 5:01 pm
Emergent design has other benefits over up-front design besides being able to handle changing/uncertain/emergent requirements: 1. Emergent designs force the...
