I've been thinking more on that whole Agile Architecture thing ... here's some ramblings on the subject to spark debate. am a bit frazzled by the term...
I cannot confirm or dispute what constitutes architecture to various specializations or aspects of development. My take on what would make any of them agile is...
Hello, Chris. On Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 9:57:29 PM, you ... I'm sure that you would be mostly responsible. And I certainly would. But the rest of these...
Hello, aalanatlas. On Monday, October 29, 2007, at 9:06:55 PM, you ... TDD isn't a jump. It's just one technique to learn and to begin to learn. I've had...
... I think something being debated here is a mostly moot point for Gary's team. In a general sense, no, you don't want people learning how to fix engines...
... corporation ... says it can ... rolling PDT into ... because it ... spend my ... and go see a ... know that I ... new stuff, I'd ... my pay ... Question....
I have a few thoughts about architecture at http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileArchitecture.htm and the primary message is to keep things as simple as...
By "iceberg" project, I mean one that has a small customer-facing aspect but requires significant back-end development to support the functionality seen by the...
Is anybody on the list using Thoughtwork's Mingle tool? How do you like it? Are there any features that give it a particular advantage over other web-based...
My December column, "Defining Success", is now posted at http://www.ddj.com/architect/202800777?cid=Ambysoft. It summarizes the results of an August survey...
Yeah, I agree with Scott. I think though the Standish Group defined success as they had because the PMI does so by the same standard. I also would think more...
Morning everyone o/ I'm in a fairly strange but encouraging position. I've recently took on a new position internally as a fledgling Xp/Agile "Champion" and ...
... Hello Mike ... That is probably the worst thing you can do. If you think of it as something that comes from being an evangelist, if you think that a ...
Congrats, Mike. A good source of strategies is Fearless Change is http://www.cs.unca.edu/~manns/intropatterns.html . You might also consider taking a Scrum...
I'm definitely not interested in shoving things down someone's throat in the way that "evangelical" perhaps implied. Nobody could've convinced me that it was...
... source ... sensible ... at a ... I asked those questions because you asked how to make the leap from Scrum directly to TDD. To me it was like you were...
Nice resource, thanks. Yay Amazon. "reaching concensus with developeres, customers and managers" sure sounds Sysephean. But then that's BDUF thinking anyway....
Quite interesting. A few things jump out at me: 1. All three groups defined importance in the same order: scope, time, money, with staff floating depending on...
... The key difference is that under agile you should be reaching concensus for what the goals over a fairly short period of time, and then reaching a new...
... It seems to be that a reasonable approach would be to attempt to educate the customer about why their request is tricker than it seems, and offer to...
Recently there was a description of agile practitioners and how their behavior causes the failure of agile usage or adoption in organizations. Agile...
On 11/2/07, John Roth <JohnRoth1@...> wrote: ... John, My understanding is that XP (and Scrum) fixes time and lets scope vary. I believe the motivation...
That's the "you can only change one thing" fallacy. The point is that, in order to get a release out on time, you have to pad the schedule with relatively low...
... I'd say that more important than either is delivery. Hence the 'tension' between time and scope, perhaps, since they both work towards the final ...
... Hmmm... One way to look at this is that somebody previously took on technical debt. I think the classic answer for that is, "Don't do that." By which I...
Hi all, I have started a new discussion group called alt.net: http://groups.google.com/group/altnet I'm hoping that this will capture more conversation around...
