The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
A good workman is known by his tools.
Originally posted by Per Kroll:
Regarding discipline - in general, we equate disicpline with high-ceremony in the process map, as described above. You can argue whether that is a good choice of word, because you can be disciplined while using a low-ceremony process. And we e.g. point out that XP is a very disciplined, low-ceremony process... So, the more precise word we use in most discussions in the book are ceremony. However, discipline is a more loaded word that we felt gave a more intriguing title.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Marc Peabody:
Another book I read recently gave cred to waterfallish methodologies for the same reasons - criticality. Pacemakers, nuclear bombs, or whatever other devices that would kill someone if it has a bug.
I think it really comes down to whether you can make a flawless requirements document that overlooks nothing.
Scheduling meetings forces the team to get together and talk about the project.
Requiring a multitude of documents forces the team to communicate
gives the nervous project sponsors "proof" that the team is making progress.
Agile methodologies have far more efficient (and fun) ways of achieving the same goals, but you do need people on your team that know what they're doing and don't require the hand-holding that ceremony provides.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Per Kroll:
I actually do think that ceremony is a good thing for safety critical and complex projects.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
... will a high-ceremony process lead to less people value, where team members are just cogs in a machinery, and if they follow the detailed process descriptions everything will turn out well?
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi
Originally posted by Per Kroll:
"This process will allow a moron to produce good software". We know that has failed.
A good workman is known by his tools.
Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs. |