Another belated response. On 20 Sep 2007, at 14:56, Phlip wrote: [snip] ... [snip] I would agree. I guess we find the discipline of always writing production...
Hello, I work in a company where SW is developped along a waterfall classical process : - Gogate - Specification writting and signing - Development - QA manual...
Hello, Thierry. Given what you've told us so far, I can't be very helpful but I'll try. On Monday, October 1, 2007, at 4:04:32 AM, you ... Iterations are time...
Hi, ... I would expect an agile team to have something of release candidate / gold master quality at the end of each iteration. Each iteration would be adding...
Hi Ron, Belated response - $work got in the way of playing ;-) ... [snip] ... Would you ask the customer before starting them? That's what I've internalised as...
... Charlie and all... What cool responses! I feel very much smarter now. <gazing admiringly at you all> I encourage you to post replies to the blog entry...
Hello, Adrian. On Monday, October 1, 2007, at 8:05:26 AM, you ... Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on how long they were, or whether a customer decision...
Thierry, The classical alpha/beta process assumes software will be riddled with bugs (and misunderstood requirements) during development until unleashed on QA...
Hello, Matt. On Friday, September 21, 2007, at 10:43:05 PM, you ... Yes but if you asked me what to wear when it is raining, it might not be a good time to...
Hi Thierry, ... Who are "they" that you are referring to above ? The customers ? ... Here too, which "they" are you referring to ? Are you talking about the...
... Hi, Thierry. You've got some interesting answers. I can give you another one, although it's not one I personally recommend. Consider this notion: all plans...
Hi Adrian, Sorry for the late reply. I thought this technique sounded incredibly cool, and decided to try it some time. I told my colleagues about it, and one...
... Game development, for one, can turn that sideways. Games are super-complex programs that must be manually tested, both to inspect new art ("assets") and to...
John, A company might not be willing to devote a person to an open source project because they have never done it before. The barrier to entry the first time ...
Gary, If I want Rectangle to support a new API for existing functionality, I can go to Rectangle, select the method in question, and use "Change Method ...
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Hello Thanks to all for you answers. When I say "they", I mean management, developpers are gained to agile. Customer could be... I did not mention that...
On 1 Oct 2007, at 21:41, Kent Beck wrote: [snip] ... [snip] This is always the largest issue in my experience - and the larger the company the more complicated...
On 2 Oct 2007, at 13:15, thierry_cattel wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Show them some variety of burnup/down chart. I've yet to meet any sort of management who has...
Hi Ron, ... Yeah... that's sort of how I feel. The question is do you draw the line between: A) throwing a couple of lines of code away when your tests point...
... Because I'm working with N other people. ... Nope. Nothing like that built into SVN. There's limited support for synchronisation with svnsync, but nothing...
I am one of the developers of LiquiBase (http://www.liquibase.org), an LGPL Java library for creating, applying, and managing database changes. I was hoping to...
... Although he is the typical use-case for nerds getting beaten up in high school - I've never heard an intelligent talk from this guy, but I have heard...
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Hello, thierry_cattel. On Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 8:15:39 AM, ... As others have mentioned, I think that a report and/or burn chart showing software...
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Hello, Adrian. On Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 10:07:59 AM, you ... I was taught by the inventor of the term, whom I may of course have misunderstood...
