... then annotating it could be useful. I have done it and found it useful. Then I happened to dream of an ExcelWhiteboard(TM), that is a Excel with a ...
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Roberts, David J (CNS...
muabdeeb
Apr 6, 2004 3:43 pm
I would say so. That's why we do empirical. David Roberts TRMS Technical Lead (619) 368-9621 ... From: Ron Jeffries [mailto:ronjeffries@...] Sent:...
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Marco Abis
capotribu
Apr 6, 2004 3:27 pm
... I love SmartBoard: http://www.smarttech.com/Products/smartboard/index.asp Sorry for the adv, I have notthing to do with them :) Marco Abis ...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Apr 6, 2004 3:25 pm
An additional interesting approach I read on the XP group from Josh Kerievsky is to use an overhead projector and transparencies. You can write on the...
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acockburn@...
aacockburn
Apr 6, 2004 3:10 pm
In a message dated 4/6/2004 5:47:42 AM Mountain Daylight Time, ... Whenever possible, I like to use corkboards or whiteboards. I'm considering using a...
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Reginald Braithwaite-...
raganwald
Apr 6, 2004 11:42 am
... Whenever possible, I like to use corkboards or whiteboards. I'm considering using a projector and a dedicated PC on my next project for things that don't...
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Jens Østergaard
jeos12
Apr 6, 2004 7:23 am
I've used it before (and *adore* it), but some folks also want ... Basic ... Hi Michael I have had absolutely no problem using excel and find that it works vey...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 6, 2004 4:29 am
... Isn't that why Scrum ships software every month, and XP and Crystal even more often? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Anyone can make the simple...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Apr 6, 2004 3:33 am
Michael-- For the most part you really want to do all that analysis work as part of the sprint. Keep in mind that requirements are like inventory and we don't ...
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Dan Rawsthorne
drawstho
Apr 6, 2004 3:30 am
Yes, "Analyze XXX" is a backlog item. One wouldn't do it unless XXX had a high enough priority to do it, right? In a system where we think of 50 use cases up...
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Roberts, David J (CNS...
muabdeeb
Apr 6, 2004 1:51 am
Michael, I find the time features are found to be necessary always seems to come after you've developed something. You're lucky if otherwise is true for you. I...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Apr 6, 2004 1:42 am
I have successfully used: --cards --a wiki --rows in Excel --TestTrack (a defect tracker, with each story/task entered as a record) My preference is for cards...
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Michael Dowling
mdowling
Apr 6, 2004 1:31 am
Excellent, Mike. For us, its going to take some time to "sprint" everything. Although - for us, having 2-week requirements gathering might be a bit much. 1...
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Roberts, David J (CNS...
muabdeeb
Apr 6, 2004 12:54 am
Anyone interested, I find developers to be the most fearful of incremental development (without admitting). "You mean I have to revisit my code? I thought I...
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Michael Dowling
mdowling
Apr 6, 2004 12:41 am
... So, basically "Gather Requirements on Feature X" be a backlog item to be prioritized? That priority is implicit - engineering work cannot be done on a...
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Mike Cohn
mikewcohn
Apr 5, 2004 11:42 pm
Hi Michael-- I have experimented before with exactly what you describe. In introducing Scrum to a couple of different organizations I couldn't get them to ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 5, 2004 11:14 pm
... Ah. Yes and no. I use Scrum-style planning along with practices from XP. (We call that XP.) I've seen many projects using XP, or Scrum, with a few random...
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Michael Dowling
mdowling
Apr 5, 2004 8:49 pm
... Using SCRUM alongside artifacts and process from other methods :) -Michael -- Michael Dowling mdowling@... PlanetOut Partners, Inc. ...
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Ron Jeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Apr 5, 2004 8:33 pm
... Which approach? Using Scrum? Or using Scrum plus a bunch of artifacts from other methods? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Computers are useless. They can...
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Dan Rawsthorne
drawstho
Apr 5, 2004 8:29 pm
Sounds like it would work for me, but why aren't the analysis and artifact construction teaks part of the backlog so that they can be prioritized with the...
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Michael Dowling
mdowling
Apr 5, 2004 6:42 pm
Hey all: The company I work for is implementing a SCRUM process for our development teams, and so far so good! I've worked with SCRUM before, but I've also...
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Boris Gloger
borisgloger
Apr 5, 2004 8:41 am
Dear Friends, in case you want to come to the Scrum Gathering and/or to the Scrum Master Certification and you do not have booked you hotel room. Do it NOW! On...
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Ken Schwaber
kschwaber
Apr 5, 2004 12:13 am
My daughter, Carey, works for Forrester and is doing a report on Open Source. She's looking for information about doing development for it now, as well the...
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Kfir Waldman
kfir_waldman
Apr 4, 2004 6:26 am
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Apr 3, 2004 8:42 pm
_____ From: Sykes, Scott [mailto:scott.sykes@...] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:15 PM To: 'aanponotify@....' Subject: Searching for...
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Mary Poppendieck
mpoppendieck
Apr 3, 2004 8:37 pm
From: Susan Staudt [mailto:susan@...] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 1:02 PM To: aanponotify@... Subject: Looking for a Consultant w/...
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J. B. Rainsberger
nails762
Apr 1, 2004 5:56 pm
... I find that when I get to work at my own pace for a while, then I start to feel like I have no real deadline, and as Peopleware taught us, the team without...
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Deb
debhart9
Apr 1, 2004 5:24 pm
cross posted from AM list... Seems to me that if they are interested in XP and DSDM, what they REALLY want is Scrum, they just don't know it yet! Any of our ...
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Cook Linda
linda.cook@...
Apr 1, 2004 2:37 pm
I have a recent experience with a team who was very conservative in their sprint committment. One contributing factor may be that they have seen other teams...
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Kerri Rusnak
kerrirusnak
Apr 1, 2004 9:41 am
My experience is that if you reduce the workload, people gold-plate the work or slow the rate to meet the deadline. Consider increasing the quality of the...
