... Are you trying XP now in such an organization? If so, what's happening to you? If not, what are your concerns? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Sorry...
Andrew, I am reading your article as I write this reply... hope to be able to send if as soon as I get home ( am at work now, on my notebook, but I am not...
... That sounds like a Process Smell, or a Business Culture Smell. -- Phlip http://www.greencheese.org/LucidScheming -- The first few lines of code must...
... Yup... they are much "Process centered"... "they" because our team is a huge exception for two reasons... 1 - We apply agile techiniques whenever we can,...
True:) Having Quality Assurance doesn't mean you have a GOOD quality assured for your products... just that their quality is assured to remain the same, as...
... Farbeit from me to complain "not accepting XP is a sure sign of bad management", but... Statistical Process Control teaches us the difference between...
We are interested in finding out from practitioners experienced in using agile methods such as XP, whether agile methods fit better with certain types of...
... Surety you crave? SauRon gives none. He asked for more info about your situation, and you repeated the essense of your question. You giving specifics works...
I'm finally reading Uncle Bob's new book, "Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns, and Practices." It has been extremely educational. My lack of...
I'm cross-posting this from another list. The cited paper appears to provide negative evidence as to the value of test-first development. I have some...
... This is one of the trolls who have helped make news:comp.software.extreme-programming useless. Look him up with http://groups.google.com to read tedious...
Hi all, I am planning to have master's degree on XP. Unfortunately, I dont have any precise subject on my mind. Could anyone advise me a thesis title. Ali...
... It's certainly an interesting paper, and the authors made some interesting decisions to try to control the variables. If it were sent to me for review I'd...
I am doing my degree thesis on XP .. and i'm in fact designing a s/w to track and manage an XP project .. I am also doing huge research work on XP itself and...
... Objection. Non-responsive. Dave was asking for an opinion, not facts. -- Phlip http://www.greencheese.org/YaAw -- Wanted: Marriage counselor who also...
... I think this is a good question, as it would be good to devote time and effort to something that interests you. What do you think is most difficult or...
I am very saddened by the loss of the shuttle, but the excerpt below from the NY Times has saddened me even more: "Investigators also learned that NASA had...
... I don't think they are contradicting. I think they're both talking about steering, influencing, the project based on knowing what is going on in time to do...
As always, comments and help are welcome! Thanks! Adventures in C#: Making the Table of Contents Ron Jeffries 01/25/2003 As I move towards turning these...
Ron Jeffries wrote in http://www.xprogramming.com/xpmag/acsUsingNUnit.htm "It occurs to me as I write this that in the course of this book, you will probably...
... Ah, mini-epiphany. A very NZ type epiphany. We don't use CVS to look back at this, or recover that, or see the other. We use CVS to make us brave. I _can_...
... Just so. The CM that I use in writing the ACS book keeps every single saved version of the code. I don't think I've ever used it to back up to a previous...
Hi William, Sorry, I couldn't answer before. We've worked with this client before very shortly. Just for two weeks. We've had a workshop where we discussed the...
... I'll vote for that. On several projects I've encountered the objection "We can't delete that [dead] code! We might need it later!" So I say, "It's under ...
What attracted me to do master's thesis on XP was.. maybe I should give the following background history... During the fires in Canberra (more than 500 houses ...
... I'd say that yes, Agile methods are only suitable to certain types of organizations. If I had to sum the difference up in one word, it'd be "sanity". The...
