I think I said something like "an iterative lifecycle of short timeboxed iterations is the most important ingredient in successful process." Consider an...
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David J. Anderson
netherby_uk
Dec 6, 2002 5:20 pm
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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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Dec 6, 2002 10:51 am
... 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:...
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Ulrich Winter
ulrichwinter
Dec 6, 2002 8:30 am
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 /...
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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,...
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David J. Anderson
netherby_uk
Dec 4, 2002 7:44 pm
I thought this list might be interested in the new community website for Feature Driven Development which Jeff De Luca has recently started. ...
... Don't think that will work here. Our setup here is that funding is only granted for a project once the specs have all been written and signed off. As a...
I worked with an organization that just couldn't get the "business analysis" group into the Scrum thing, even though I pointed out the number of defects, ...
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Hubert Smits
brasspounder...
Nov 27, 2002 7:51 pm
Neil, Why isn't the writing of these specs done in a sprint? That would give the participants in the sprint (specially those who have to estimate the fixed ...
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Neil Padgen
npadgen
Nov 27, 2002 11:40 am
Thanks for your replies Hubert and Ken. What tends to happen here is that user requirements and technical requirements documents are written before any project...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 25, 2002 5:48 pm
I gave a talk on this at the last OOPSLA. You have to approach a fixed price, fixed date contract the same, whether agile or clunky processes are being used;...
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Hubert Smits
brasspounder...
Nov 25, 2002 4:55 pm
Neil, I haven't actual experience with this, but here are my 2 pennies: If your team has experience with Scrum, then you should have some metrics collected. ...
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Neil Padgen
npadgen
Nov 25, 2002 3:41 pm
Our small development team has recently implemented Scrum with great success. (Thanks Mike and Ken!) Just gave a presentation to our project managers. They...
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Alex
aviggio
Nov 25, 2002 6:24 am
<<< CALL FOR PARTICIPATION >>> XP Agile Universe 2003 August 10-13, 2003 New Orleans http://www.xpuniverse.com http://www.agileuniverse.com Following the...
Of general interest to readers on this list (I hope)... I wanted to bring to your attention that Jeff De Luca has started an FDD community website at ...
I'll write an article about the meeting at SEI and how Scrum meets the various KPA's during December. Ken...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Nov 8, 2002 11:07 am
... Ken: How does scrum meet the following KPAs? Level 2: Software Configuration Management Software Quality Assurance Level 3: Peer Reviews Software Product...
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Ken Schwaber
ken.schwaber@...
Nov 8, 2002 12:08 am
Integrated Software Management and Training Program ... From: Aureliano Calvo [mailto:acalvo@...] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:13 PM To:...
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Aureliano Calvo
acalvo@...
Nov 7, 2002 6:11 pm
What KPA are missing if we use scrum correctly to achieve level 3 CMM (besides subcontractor management)?...
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yaywvkmcnaeu
Nov 3, 2002 10:31 pm
http://jhueiase.4t.com/index.html...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Nov 2, 2002 1:34 pm
Alan, I am not going to the Colorado Software Summit, but I would be very interested in knowing what you find there about companies with certification programs...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Nov 1, 2002 10:44 pm
Attached is a call for papers for the Agile Development Conference, June 25-28 in Salt Lake City. This conference is being organized by AgileAlliance and...
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zlhvdxpufqdb
Nov 1, 2002 10:24 pm
http://portrelll.4mg.com/index.html...
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Mike Bowler
gargoylesoft...
Nov 1, 2002 7:45 pm
... There will be quite a few people interested in XP/Agile at Colorado Software Summit next week. There have been sessions and bof's on XP at previous years...
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alanfromclt
agstreet@...
Nov 1, 2002 7:35 pm
I will be at the Colorado Software Summit November 4-8. I am a Java developer, SCRUM/XP user, as well as a division SEPG member and SQA manager in a major...
