I thought this list might be interested in the new community website for Feature Driven Development which Jeff De Luca has recently started. ...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Dec 6, 2002 5:26 am
I was at a BOF at SD East and Craig brought up that he thought that time-boxing, as in the Sprint, was the essence of agility. I demurred a reply at the time,...
Ken, Craig, I'd like to add another aspect: An agile project avoids planning details a long time in advance. Keeping the planning focus to the next sprint /...
... Outstanding thoughts, Ken. Some of your best work. On the same subject, time-boxing, I'm reminded of my funning way of describing Alistair's Crystal Clear:...
My thoughts on this are that "timeboxing" is the essence of RAD. Agile is much more than RAD! RAD says - prioritize your requirements, estimate what can be...
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Craig Larman
craig@...
Dec 10, 2002 4:08 am
I think I said something like "an iterative lifecycle of short timeboxed iterations is the most important ingredient in successful process." Consider an...
John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club said something like -- when you try to pick up any one thing, you find it's connected to everything else in the...
Linda: It is "all connected." However, I believe Craig's observation is still correct -- as is yours. In fact, together, they give the insight that we use to...
Which might be why Jim HIghsmith called them "ecosystems" or Gerry Weinberg applied general systems theory - they are connected systems, there is no isolated...
At recent conferences, especially OOPSLA, I and others in the agile community were taken to task for not learning from history. Specifically, we were...
What would $5MM be in today's money? My guess is around $150MM. I'd say a 1000 page specification for a $150MM project would be decidedly agile. David -- David...
Let's see. In 1970 I was being paid $12,000 a year by the University of Chicago. At the same markup (factor of 30), I should be making $360,000 per year. Who...
According to http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/calc/ $5 million in 1970 is $23M today and Ken should be making $55,515 a year. --Mike ... From:...
Kidding aside, what is the real take on the 1000 page spec? Dr. Royce said a 1000 page spec is appropriate and David said it's reasonable, but isn't this...
Whenever documentation is used instead of face-to-face communication, it is a chance for misunderstanding and failure to communicate. Nobody writes or models...
Still kidding for a moment - 1000 pages for a $23MM project would still be OK. Now to deal with the real beast of Waterfall and why it remains popular. I think...
I suspect documentation would be critical to a $23M project and that it's easy to see how 1000 pages of *documents* get produced. However, I'm talking about...
On a $55M project, I had thousands of pages of specs that were totally useless. As soon as a spec was six months old, the product changed so much from the...
Well, I plan to attempt it. I'll definatly need help from you guys. I do work for a fortune 500 company. Our ways are bad for the new economy. My last...
Paul, Let the group know where you're located and maybe someone can come in and help you, such as give a presentation, talk throught the benefits and ...
Good luck with the change, Paul. There is a lot of material at www.agilealliance.com/articles that can help. There are articles on transitioning and there are...
... Mike Cohn wrote: Here's an interesting bit of math though that shows that if the $23<BR> million project was managed via Scrum it could end up with 1000...
Absolutely, Absolutly! And even using the example I gave we'd only get 75 pages of paper per month for a 200 person "team." -Mike ... From: Mike Beedle...
Ken, Although I agree that Winston Royce's paper doesn't describe an Agile process of today, I think it is not such a bad paper if you take into consideration...
I just came across this link: http://www.communications.xplabs.com/experience2001-1.html It doesn't mention Scrum directly but does describe how rugby as a ...
Ken, this is a concrete example of what I mean for "agile". In my opinion, agile means not only small releases and timeboxing, not only frequent feedback, not...
