Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
The whole choosing an agile process thread ran pretty long. Here's a summary of all the posts:
Designing your own agile process - Part 1: Don't!
Designing your own agile process - Part 2: Buy vs. build
Choosing an agile process - Part 3: Evaluation
Choosing an agile process - Part 4: Offshore development
Choosing ...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, p&p, Proven practices
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Peter Provost blogged on some of his experiences with Simulated Agile Team Rooms, largely at p&p. I've added some comments based on my experiences with the distributed/offshore model here and elsewhere...
Tags: agile, Distributed teams, p&p
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Several people at the p&p Summit had questions around CI. I thought I'd follow it up with a post on with some useful links etc. I’ve used CI on a couple of teams at Microsoft, notably Visual Studio Tools for Office and the patterns & practices group. While we were ...
Tags: Continuous integration
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Waiting to get on a plane from Quebec City back to Seattle... The p&p Summit was great. I really enjoyed meeting everyone and finding out what they did and didn't like and wanted to see p&p do next. The biggest theme was (again) around complexity. This was somewhat summed up ...
Tags: Events, p&p, Quebec, Travel
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
This was written on a scrap of paper in my office. "In the absence of a good reason to change something - DON'T" I have no idea where it came from although was in my handwriting.
Tags: agile, Management
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