Posts by AliC33

Agile Manifesto co-author blasts failure rates report, talks up 'reimagining' project

Re: Managers Sometimes DEMAND a Load of Whalesong

>> Mgr. How long will it take you to get our web portal built and running?

Prg. it depends

>> Mgr. C'mon, at least give me an estimate

Prg. Pfffttt. 10 years

Mgr. outrageous, try again

Prg. 5 years?

Mgr. outrageous, try again

[...]

[many half-lives later]

Prg. 6 months?

Mgr. hmmm...better but still a little too long, try again

Prg. 3 months?

Mgr. wow that's great! exactly when I need it by

Prg. the fuck didn't you just say so. We can do a wordpress site for you in that time

Re: The more process you have the less agile you are.

a stand-up also provides visibility to anyone that cares - the C-level management, project managers (eugh), whoever is interested, can drop in on a stand-up and be amazed at how well the team works together (done right). It's not uncommon for the next thing the team, or smaller cohesive groups, end up doing is to scribble on whiteboards to evolve a design or create a prototype

Re: The more process you have the less agile you are.

+1 for the art reference. I've always believed that software engineering is actually art - there isn't one set of books that say "do it like this and you'll be golden" (like in say, building architecture). Collectively, software books / practices are basically telling us the answer to "how should I do this?" is "it depends"

Re: Agile misconceptions are rife

heh - any software project that didn't involve testing as a first-class, production quality area is on a death-march from the off

Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they're a phishing threat

My Gmail has a dot in the local part. On several occasions in the past I've received emails that were clearly intended for someone else. If I remember rightly their Gmail address was the same as mine without dots.