On our current Scrum project, we also had some issues with the term "pair programming" - a bit too extreme. However we have (and are) done lots of "pair...
Hi everyone, I have a question that I don't think I've seen on this list before, and I don't have direct experience of working in an agile environment, so...
On our current Scrum project, we also had some issues with the term "pair programming" - a bit too extreme. However we have (and are) done lots of "pair...
... as a ... At my previous position, I jumped into an Extreme Programming team. I had intentionally chosen that position because I could work in an Agile...
This is easy. - clear goals, empowered to achieve, focused, collaborative, immediate feeback, team commitment and synergy, --> f-l-o-w In other words, a...
Thanks Jospeh. ... Sounds like your sold. Don't want to be greedy, but would you mind elaborating (perhaps by giving examples) of each of these. Just small ...
... Hi Brad, I've always thought of agile as having 3 bits: iterative/incremental delivery, adaptability, and attitude. Looking at your list, immediate...
... I've recently learned that to really change to a new process that you want to follow probably requires changing behavior, technique, and attitude. You...
Hi Clarke, ... You may want to check on De Marco & Lister's "Walzing with Bears"... I somewhat recall them mentionning in introduction that risk management ...
... That's where I "stole" it from. They say that Risk management is project mangement for grown ups and eventually say that incremental delivery is the best...
Clarke, I don't think you should write a book. At least not until you have run 3+ projects using Agile methods, and thoroughly understand how Agile impacts PM....
Yikes! I think you may have misunderstood me Robin. My book is not advocating waterfall. It's advocating iterative/incremental development to current...
I believe it's possible but rather unlikely. I also believe you can perform iterative development within a waterfall process. The key to agility are the...
Just wondering.... Had Craig Larman run 3+ agile projects before he wrote his book? From what I know of Craig (and I used to work in the same building) he is a...
... Here again, Clarke, I'd still think that it's best to write about what one knows, and to know Agile, it seems to me that one has to have done it. Otherwise...
... This surprises me. Isn't waterfall inherently Requirements, Design, Code, Test, Ship? If you iterate, it seems that it isn't waterfall. What am I missing...
... I dunno if test-last is essential to waterfall. It's kinda traditional, as is big-bang integration, but it's not core to the problems waterfall is trying...
... No. You're probably right. Mostly. But I can think of a few exceptions: Mario Puzo wasn't a mafia don, Elvis (I think) didn't write his own songs, J K...
... No, I'm wrong. Write what you know, write from the heart. If there's a book in you, let it come out. Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Maybe it is like...
... Code, ... That so many people misuse the term "waterfall" when they mean "plan-driven" or possibly even "spiral" that it's a good idea to give any use the...
This is where people who do successful "waterfall" tell the anti-waterfall people that the anti-waterfall people have got waterfall wrong: the successful...
I use the term "unconscious waterfall" when people do phases (requirements, implementation, testing/debugging) [design as a phase often gets left out] without...
Reviewing Royce's original paper on waterfall, I see that he recommends two recursive "design" phases ("C" and "E" in my translation of diagram #10). No one...
Hi Clarke, I guess I don't understand the connection between Elvises song writing (he did some) or Rolling's imagination, and development methodologies that...
... If a team does an incremental iterative process and calls it waterfall, they may well be successful. But does that mean that they have used the term...
I've spent a bit of time with the Sanders sales method. It is interesting in that it emphasizes up front contracts, and a process of "getting to no" quickly....
... <snip> ... Overall, I think the points raised here are great. I have a minor concern with the wording. I don't think of myself as "creating emotions". The...
Currently there is a big adoption going on of the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and the Project Management...
