This came across my inbox this morning: http://www.yosefk.com/blog/extreme-programming-explained.html It seems to be what I would imagine anyone first coming...
Cory, ... with ... Or the opinion of a very smart but arrogant programmer who doesn't work on software remotely related to business applications. Writing...
It amazed me the most, how he concluded that "competent and social" == mediocre. In his mind, apparently, skill is a binary value. -- Thomas ... [Non-text...
What do you think about tools like http://www.programeter.com ? "Programeter is a first management tool able to measure programmers' know-how as well as...
Yes. Whenever someone asks me for a tool like this, I like to try and probe how/why the given manager doesn't feel able to assess these things as a matter of...
... Looking at the list of indicators measured, I'm not sure whether they're intended to be positive or negative. And it's amazing to me that a tool can...
Heh! Pair programming screws this up rather seriously. I checked in code that I wrote with George, Kent, and Robert. Over on Fred's box, I help him for a few...
... I'm not the same David, but one of the best books explaining aiki principles in a non-martial-arts context I've seen is Aikido in everyday life : giving in...
George, ... work ... makes ... your ... You are right. I work with one who happens to be one of the nicest and most sociable guys I have ever met. And smart...
I can't help but be seriously reminded of Productivity 2.0 over at the daily WTF http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Productivity-20.aspx Nina ... -- I reject your...
Well it could be good in so far as it invites others (managers?) to engage with the process of reading the code their organisation produces. That said,...
... How do you figure? My understanding of the software was that you basically just point it towards your version control and the software will just analyze...
Indeed, my thinking is to deduce exactly as you point out; that an intelligent response (by management presumably) is to suspect the validity of reports, to...
I've always been puzzled by the connection some people see between agile development and martial arts. These items don't seem to help my understanding. It...
Hi Robert, ... Here is the message I take. Agile is about communication between individuals and their community. It's also about going from state A to a...
... He got what he needed most at the moment and not what he really tried to get. ... The lesson for agile development as I see it is this; the angry man (the...
... Nicely put, Nina. Let me add: In software development, there is no reliable way to solve all the problems ("there are no silver bullets"). We can pretend...
Nina, ... <snip/> ... If that's the lesson... why wouldn't "offering a friendly face" fix waterfall? I think that's what puzzles Robert (and I) about some of ...
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Robert Biddle <Robert_Biddle@...> ... Very thoughtful observation, Robert... having studied martial arts, I am often...
... It sounds like you weren't fixing the most pressing concern: it sounds to me like you started to fix a bunch of concerns that were pressing at the time,...
... That's just the thing. Waterfall mostly focuses on deciding ahead of time, what the customer wants, which most often is not what the customer actually...
... Absolutely. And if you go to any tech conference and ask anyone who's ever tried or studied martial arts to raise their hand, you'll see a lot of hands...
David, ... wrote: <snip/> ... address ... at ... of ... You hit the nail on the head. Except at that company upper management decided what the developers...
Nina, ... <snip/> ... attention of ... really ... This is interesting to me. I am beginning to understand that the collaboration opportunitites offered by the...
