... Are you in a bad mood today, Phlip? ;) A project can get by with testing for one browser only. Intranet projects are usually like this. I have to admit...
Ilja, I know we've gone our rounds on the question of tools before, but I really wanted to share a story with you. When last we corresponded, I had told you...
... <snip> ... Sounds like: “Seek to understand before you seek to be understood” - Dr. Stephen Covey. That's basically what I'm working to get myself and...
I'm helping to introduce XP at my new company - and the cards are having a similar effect - though mostly amusement rather than annoyance, as I can see some...
... I never undestand this seemingly irrational behavior. Why do people who have nothing to do with the cards, hate them so much? It almost seems to me like...
I think that is a large part of it. There was an underlying assumption of "I don't see how that could work, therefore it can't". I also saw a bit of...
... I was lucky enough to experience the opposite effect. After struggling with "The Requirements" and "The Schedule" for a few months, without getting...
I'm sure that happens from time to time, but there is still a large school of thought that believes the only way to do something is through project. And if...
... On my last project the product manager was unsure about the cards, so we put him in charge of them. He wrote them and kept the yet to be done cards....
Nice idea. My PM was offended by the cards and told my VP to fire me. Luckily, my VP was a level headed guy and said 'no'. I'm not going to try putting her in...
... Ordinarily I know better than to avoid certain political issues here, but... ...Google's first hit for that term says: "In recent speeches, President Bush...
If you use selenium with Ruby On Rails, you can do a "rake test_acceptance" and it will kick off the selenium tests with each browser you've specified in the...
... Well, paying professional diplomats almost as much as Japanese elementary school teachers, so they can afford stationary, would be a start... But the...
... Kent Beck calls that topic "test faults are syntax errors". That means _all_ errors, whatever their source, should appear in the same list in your editor,...
... I remember this gig quite some years back, where I described the cards and their usage. The team's VP was at the session, and asked a number of times...
... Quite hard with JavaScript because your tests run in a different environment (browsers) for your editor. The browser my even be on a different box when...
... Somehow this is human behaviour. I worked in an aircraft factory once as a technical draftsman and the department used both "paper" and "computer"...
... Interesting ... I guess I'd like to see an example worked out, especially where the algorithm isn't entirely known in advance. For example I wonder how...
There is a new Agile Project Leadership Network chapter in Richmond, VA. If you are in or near Richmond, or will be, please join us (and tell us you are...
I wonder what the perception would be for a similar but different story regarding modeling tools and Napkins (or TP). So he had paid the 30K for the...
... If you think of the company as an instituation to sell high tech, there is some sense in that. If you think of it as an instituation to provide the best...
... Yes, he had gone ahead on his own, without advice of team or counsel, and bought the bug tracker. Somehow better than the free or nearly free ones we all...
