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Article #624165Re: OT: Trump
From: Peter Flass
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 19:00
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 19:00
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > On 15 Jul 2018 11:58:30 GMT > Niklas Karlsson <ank...@yahoo.se> wrote: > >> On 2018-07-13, Scott <nob...@example.org> wrote: >>> >>> And to me...and I'm supposed to know what I'm doing. This obsession >>> with updating all the software all the time, for one. I've never seen >>> such ardor for installing new bugs as quickly as possible. Best >>> Practices, so they say.... >> >> Perhaps an extension of the "agile" mentality. > > Agile was a good principle used by many successful teams way back > before it had a name (even before 'extreme programming', then some idiots > formalised it and it grew a whole pile of procedural garbage. > >> Google invented what they call Google Sprints, where you have a >> design/planning phase before you get to coding and shipping. > > One of the good bits of the sprint approach is that you are > supposed to ensure that 'user stories' are only accepted into a sprint of > they are properly defined, the tasks and acceptance criteria worked out and > there are no blockers. IME this never happens, instead all too often it's > whatever manglement wants next that goes in no matter how badly defined or > infeasible it is. > >> i.e. they basically reinvented waterfall... > > The key principles behind agile are "don't bite off more than you > can chew" and "keep making it better" or more formally work out the smallest > useful thing that can be delivered and deliver it and go back round the > loop. This was supposed to be something new and original??? > This tends to be forgotten in the whole business of setting up scrums > and sprints with sprint planning and retrospectives and backlog grooming > and scrum masters and all the other bumpf. > -- Pete
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