Does "less costly failure" == "success"? Everyone knows it's better to get out early than late if the ship is sinking, but to say that "Agile can't fail"...
... To stick with this team, usually employing something like Scrum and XP is ot necessarily about saving the ship but the humans on board of the ship. -d -- ...
... David, I concur measuring to just measure is a waste of time. I often ask clients who have a lot of metrics and data, "what problem are you trying to...
... Some big projects start with a feasibility study. XP projects start by attempting to write a high value feature. If you can't write that feature - tested,...
... Productivity should be defined as a unit of output. The output is the amount of functionality delivered. I, and some others, define it as function...
Hello, David. On Friday, February 1, 2008, at 1:00:22 AM, you ... I would think this depends what we might mean by "answered". I'd count stories done, or sum...
... <snip /> ... something right ... software product ... programmers... nice simple ... the ... other ... Ok, if you're a relatively small software house...
... Yes, but it's still not success. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com If another does not intend offense, it is wrong for me to seek it; if another does...
... to get some additional Agile ... David, I have watched the video, and read some of the function-point booklet. Thanks for putting that out there - it was...
Function points seem like a marketing mechanism for increasing demand for software consultants through the promise of revealing esoteric means of measuring the...
... That depends on your context. (And yes, this is probably obvious to you, I'm doubtless being excessively pedantic.) If the context is "we have an...
Hi David, ... I would love to see quantitative comparisons of software development approaches. It would help me in my work as a consultant, and it would put...
... I suppose that's where we start running into difficulties. Does "functionality" count, for instance, if it's never used by end users ? It seems to me that...
Hi David, ... It also depends on your goal for the project, which, as much as the outcome, determines what you call success or failure. If your goal is to...
... are ... is ... I'm not saying that it's a perfect definition for agile, but what I'm looking for is fairly straightforward criteria that people can use to ...
... infeasible is... ... A success. The goal of a feasability study is to try to get a reasonable assessment as to the feasability of the effort. The ...
... Yeah. Which gives me two lessons: * Make sure your goals are aligned with the context. If the context is to do what's best for the company, you'd like the...
... Laurent, Great point. It is not uncommon for software projects to have more than 50% of their functionality NEVER used! This is really another metric...
... Jim, I and many others have addressed this issue many times over the past several years. I worked on a research project with some academics from the...
Hi everyone, I want to point you to an international survey studying the effects of cooperation on work conditions, and discriminating agile teams/companies. ...
... Sure there are a lot of variables... I have worked on several software acquisitions over the past years. It is common in an acquisition that the acquiring...
... by ... feature - ... infeasible. Really? Then how does the XP team get the initial funding to do this work? Seems to me that someone would need to ask...
Hi David, ... In connection with this I recommend the book "Better" by Atul Gawande, where at the end he has these five simple recommendations for doctors who...
... Yes, exactly: Aborting a doomed project as quickly as possible is a good thing. That doesn't make the project a success; all it does is save the company...
... [At this point I'll emphasize the "deployed" and "online" points in Phillip's post.] ... Yes, and yes. Certainly /any/ expenditure of resources -- time,...
An analogy to a company that executes lots of concurrent projects is a portfolio of investments. It is my distinct impression that selecting a collection of...
... Laurent, Thanks for the recommendation. I have just order the book on Amazon. I really enjoy these type of books because they are based upon lessons from...
Hi David, Just because a piece of functionality is never used, doesn't mean that no one values it! and doesn't mean that that functionality doesn't sell the...
Hello, David! ... How many of the companies|products|projects, that you have studied, were using a software development method, that the members of the extreme...
Hello, Steven. On Saturday, February 2, 2008, at 8:34:50 AM, you ... It still seems to me to be nigh on to meaningless to try to say that "agile succeeded" or...
