... There is a Undergraduate project at the University of Queensland that is looking at the ideals of XP, and making a Agile Project Planning tool from it. ...
... Bob, you've been drinking too much of your own lemonade. Having a bigger hammer only solves part of the problem. I can assure you that on the various...
... And XP and the other Agile approaches take advantage of these environmental changes. It's, at least partly, a case of the difference between a "culture of...
(responding to Uncle Bob) ... Okay, I've considered. I think it is the decoupling of the cost of change curve for the requirement lifecycle from the cost of...
... What you've described above, Jeff, isn't an issue of inherent complexity, but a result of stupid implementation. The cost of change surely remains high if...
... On a life critical project I'd * shorten the cycles to a week -- possibly less. (I note that the Mercury Capsule software was written in cycles of one...
... Jeff, I agree that some people still see the cost of change curve today. However I believe that it is because many folks are using a process that was ...
... So this legacy code isn't really hard to change: If only we would throw away the Change Control Review Board, the Tracability research, the status reports...
I've been tasked with helping a person in our organization get an RFP out for a software development effort. Part of the RFP is to put in some quantifiable...
... Again, Jeff, it seems that you are describing weather as climate. Code /can/ be hard to change. It does not follow that it must be. Ron Jeffries ...
Adam, Do you have any references related to the Queensland project? Ivan Tomek School of Computer Science Acadia University Canada...
Ivan Tomek
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Apr 1, 2004 3:38 pm
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... [...] ... I interpreted Bob's post to be talking about something slightly different. I perceived the focus to be not so much on how "powerful" the tools...
... What's climate, if not a description of weather over time? ... True. But I think I'm responding to Dr. Martin's claim, which I take as... "The cost of...
Brad, I agree with your points, but they cannot create a truly flat cost of change curve. As Paul points out, your points and UB's points support the...
In a message dated 4/1/2004 7:29:30 AM Mountain Standard Time, UncleBob writes: <<Some folks have said that XP flattens the curve. I don't think that's true. ...
In a message dated 4/1/2004 7:29:30 AM Mountain Standard Time, ... There is an implicit assumption lurking in this paragraph that XP is not formal. Indeed,...
Hi Bob, the cost of failure is not that high in this case. No data corruption, no access violation or anything serious. We have just started with automating...
... Ron has argued pretty persuasively in the past that if you use the XP practices very carefully, producing simple design, you'll end up with a good...
In a message dated 4/1/2004 7:29:30 AM Mountain Standard Time, extremeprogramming@yahoogroups.com writes: (On the other hand, I *WOULD* like to make a chart...
... How do we know that John Roth is not a master? I suppose we could take his word for it ... :-) How do we know that there are going to be architectural...
Edmund Schweppe
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Apr 1, 2004 6:46 pm
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... Sorry - wasn't trying to suggest that. Was merely attempting to amend what I thought was a misunderstanding of Bob's post. I agree with the earlier post...
... Currently it is just starting up, so there are lots of spikes, talking and a large design proposal. However, because it is an Undergraduate project all of...
... We dont in absolute terms but is so closely approximates one that we take it as such. If your talking about "architectural" changes then its stuff like...
Kent, And what about us that use XP-inspired processes. Doing a subset of XP but reaping "some" benefits? The processes we don't use are not because we don't...
