... I think "don't do business that way" is a natural reaction. At the root of the problem with fixed-bid contracts that Peter described is this : when I'm...
... I don't believe this could be a realistic description of an XP project, as it seems to me that "90%" implies "90% of some linearly measurable original...
Hello merrifie, ... I don't think it's only the manager who are to blame. The traditional view of a manager is that s/he has the responsibility for the...
thanks you guys, already had 39 votes whilst ive been asleep :D If you havent voted you can at http://test.on30.co.uk/survey/index.php and to view the results...
Andrew Edmundson
andrew@...
Mar 1, 2002 10:49 am
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... Phrase "money then spent so far" implies something other than fixed-price contract, doesn't it? I agree with the moral principle, but not that it comes to...
... Might be a bug. In the final question I voted for "won't be used" (because you didn't give me an alternative "don't know") but the results show 0% voted...
... It does, it does. ... Doesn't that observation nail the problem down exactly ? ... I'm missing something. "10% of the remaining time" I understand - that...
... Maybe. I'm sorry, but I got lost. Must come from waking in the middle of the night and starting to reply to mailing list messages. :-( Maybe we cut too...
... I almost did that. Should have. Was lazy. Nothing new there. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they...
... Yes, but I failed to memorize the book. Apologies. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Sigs are like I Ching or Tarot. They don't mean anything, but...
... "You keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Well, actually, I'm halfway between you and Kent on this one. As you surely...
... I do not see why (a) this would be a problem since you are already in that marketplace and thus presumably already have idiots making up your bids out of...
... Ah, we all know you're just stirring the pot, Jeffries. Poisoning the minds of IT people everywhere with your blasphemous Extreme Programming heretical...
... Excellent! ... Every methodology requires that the whole team (well, every person fulfulling one or more roles) must have the discipline to carry out the...
... I'd like to pursue the smoker analogy... There are many ways you can quit smoking, from keeping a list on paper of every time of day you've wanted a cig...
... Actually I shouldn't have agreed with that so readily. Fixed-price does not imply that you are paid 100% of the price after spending 100% of the planned...
Hello Ron, ... RJ> Chet's cat barfed on the keyboard of Chet's new laptop yesterday and RJ> now the laptop doesn't work. Rethink that cat idea, that's my...
... I'm not sure any more either. :-) And I've been deleting the messages as they arrive and don't think I'll go back to review the thread right now. ... With...
... I agree that this is the issue. As I see it, though : - the customer expects something - you knowingly set out to do something else. This isn't "safe",...
... Dossy, your paragraph sounds a lot like (b) to me. You're saying that the evidence that they want to ship quality software on time is that they follow the...
A friend told me last night that - Good managers remove roadblocks - Bad managers create roadblocks - Managers who do nothing are better than average George...
I've been lurking here for the last couple of years, ever since reading the white book. I thought my experiences would be relevant to recent threads. Today I...
... But you're missing two of the points of XP - 1. the Customer drives, and 2. you never promise functionality, only effort. The Development team *never*...
drawstho@...
Mar 1, 2002 3:46 pm
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... Well, I was not in a position of power. I just graduated from college and though I had two years of industry experience I wasn't flooded with offers. The...
... Absolutely I do. Remember, Sustainable Pace is about understanding how much work you can handle, doing that much, and no more. It\'s about being honest...
... As an exercise, please list three ways in which the actions of a "lowly" programmer might have influence on the hiring practices of a large company. (I'll...
