I have created an updatable database for planning our next meeting. Yes, I know, we have the backlog for that... here is my reasoning: The Backlog contains...
It would be a Saturday, 6 or 13 or 20. To be confirmed this week. It will run 4-5 hours, so casually interested parties, feel free to bow out! We have...
Now that membership in this list works differently, I thought it might be nice to briefly introduce our friends when they join.... and, friends, please feel...
You may recall that I was unable to convince my former employer to give me time off for scrum certification. I have rectified the situation-I resigned. ...
In light of the earlier Powerpoint discussion on the list, some of you may be interested in knowing that the current issue of Wired has an article by Edward...
Hello: I'm looking for project management software that would be useful for managing software projects. I'm specifically after packages that depart from the...
I very much liked Deborah's step to introduce new members, and I now want to continue this. Several of us met Kevin when he gave his presentation abut SCRUM at...
I'm waiting with bated breath for someone to plan our next real meeting... but in the meantime, let's meet informally for supper before the next XPToronto...
I love Terroni. 5:30 it is! ... From: Deb [mailto:deborah@...] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 5:15 PM To: scrumtoronto@yahoogroups.com I'm waiting...
The XP meeting is less than a week away and there is no info on their web site about a topic or speaker for the meeting. Are we sure the meeting is on?...
Yes, just got confirmation from xptoronto organiser - meeting on the 16th is on, subject is Agile Manifesto on trial, with 3 defenders. And, I think, a ...
... where I saw that... Yeup... I am giving a quick intro on the manifesto,then a short talk about adopting Agile in common development shops and then Lawrence...
I was pair programming a few days ago and I had a slight disagreement with the person I was pairing with.... I am just curious to see what the developers on...
... Welcome to sharing the sandbox with someone else... ROTFLOL... ... The expressions "style" and "proper OO" makes me curious. Is this a religious argument?...
I don't think that number of lines is a good criteria to decide whether to wrap something up. IMO, a good argument would be that doing the comparison in the if...
... <snipped> ... Chunking the code into a small number of massive methods is bad because each method is difficult to comprehend. Chunking the code into large...
... <bigotry> Yeah, but it's written in Java, so it's a really ugly line. ;-) </bigotry> ... There are two reasons to extract a method: (1) to reduce...
... Hmmmm..... ... Really good points. What I did was write it the way the other developer wanted so we could go on solving the problem... I didn't want to...
... It makes a lot of sense.... thanks Mike. I think for now I will accomodate them until I can build some credibility... I am still somewhat new at the...
Hi Reg, As usual, I enjoyed your comments and insights over dinner and at the XP session tonight. I refer you to the following Stats Canada web site re mother...
Thanks for you patience while we re-arranged the date on this session. I thought that, since Gail was volunteering her time and effort to teach us this...
Hi Deb, Please add my name to your CRC Card Session this Sunday. I will start to "cut the deck" and make sure I'm up to date on your CRCcard references. ...
Just an addendum to Deb's directions to Trader Media Corp. There is a Lawrence West bus that stops in front of our door so you can always grab that from the...
Reg, A colleague told me that he'd been discussing Excel with a developer from Microsoft. He was told that the ONLY thing MS developers use Excel for is...
... And I have heard from a number of my friends inside MS that the only thing they use for scheduling is Excel. This seems to parallel the whole "agile"...
Anyone know how to get at the Scheduling goodies in Excel? If not, I'll go hunting... deb ... From: Reginald Braithwaite-Lee [mailto:raganwald@...] Sent:...
thx. c u later ... From: Reginald Braithwaite-Lee [mailto:raganwald@...] Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:14 AM To: scrumtoronto@yahoogroups.com ...
Great article, BTW I think I'll send it to some PMs I know who loved to arm-twist me into reducing estimates and loved to spend their day tracking projects in ...