By: Kevin
A majority of it depends on the programmers and how closely you follow agile. For the set of coders we have on our C++ project the agile process brought out the worst in them. They are OK at being told...
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“There is a VERY strong chance we are not using agile correctly.” There is a very strong chance you are not doing agile at all I’d say. Dropping all process, hacking along is not agile, it’s an excuse...
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In my observation, a sloppy mindset takes to Agile the way duck takes to water. Result? Agile == low quality, generally. By ‘low quality’, I mean, one or more of critical elements of software have been...
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In my observation, a sloppy mindset takes to Agile the way a duck takes to water. Result? Agile == low quality, generally. By ‘low quality’, I mean, one or more of critical elements of software have...
View ArticleBy: Jakob
I just bought an excellent book on agile development and start to understand and value this style of development. However I have worked in an “agile” shop for the last year and had terrible...
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Hello Jacob, thanks for your reply and your story. ” When developers have never written a unit test before and assume it’s QA’s job to find bugs. ” This is a problem, I’ve experienced this too and it...
View ArticleBy: Dan P
As another example: I’m in a “let’s do agile!” project at the moment, with senior management instigating it. The result is appalling requirements management and poor code quality. Should this be used...
View ArticleBy: steven
Mike Brunt? who the heck is Mike Brunt, and who cares what he thinks, really?!
View ArticleBy: Stan
Wellcome to customers world : agile == low quality After saying this You argue that I have’n follow the rules. Eat my shorts…
View ArticleBy: Olly
I’ve been on teams practicing agile for 3 years now. During that time the projects I have worked on, without exception, have made customers very happy. Projects have been delivered on time, features...
View ArticleBy: stephan
@Olly: Thanks for your long and thoughtful comment. I have mostly the same experience, especially “I believe the reason that many attempts at agile fail is that it requires what is essentially a new...
View ArticleBy: Mike Brunt
@Stephan thank you for taking the time to address all 11 points in my original posting of an email which is part of a longer thread that can be found here…...
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@Steven, Mike Brunt is a living breathing human being whom many care about; family and friends, just thought I would let you know and bid you a good day.
View ArticleBy: Cedric
Stephan, you do realize that by repeating over and over that “what you’re doing is not Agile”, you are confirming the point that I made in this blog post: http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000519.html...
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Cedric, do you realize that there are apples and oranges? And that you just can’t know the taste of apples by eating oranges? Zen says you need to taste the apple to reason about apples. Then you can...
View ArticleBy: Cedric
Hi Stephan, I’m not convinced there is that much evidence (hard and empirical) that Agile is actually that successful. Especially if you compare it to Linux (Linux success stories are easy to find)....
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