Alistair Cockburn<br />acockburn@aol.com<br />Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201699699/ref=ase_electricporkchop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Agile Software Development</a>
Alistair Cockburn<br />acockburn@aol.com<br />Author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201699699/ref=ase_electricporkchop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Agile Software Development</a>
Originally posted by Alistair:
Hire a small handfull of good people, and you don't have to worry about process at all - they'll take care of the issues all by themselves.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once.
- Buckaroo Banzai
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once.
- Buckaroo Banzai
Originally posted by John Wetherbie:
BTW, isn't "cheating legally" an oxymoron?
Originally posted by John Wetherbie:
BTW, isn't "cheating legally" an oxymoron?
I'd prefer to think of it as intelligently ignoring those aspects of the game that do not contribute to you playing well and winning.
Or maybe I'm getting carried away... :roll:
John
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Originally posted by John Wetherbie:
Do other groups (and who are these groups?) really pretend you don't need good, senior people to help assure success. I can see where this is ignored because it is so obvious that it is easy to overlook but pretending implies that someone knows that this is important/required and chooses to ignore it. Definitely a good step towards failure.
Can you cite any examples? You can change the names of the other groups to protect the guilty, if necessary!
John
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once.
- Buckaroo Banzai
Originally posted by Alistair:
Actually, it's the "hire good people" like that most often gets the "that's cheating!" line.
Hire a small handfull of good people, and you don't have to worry about process at all - they'll take care of the issues all by themselves.
Originally posted by shailesh sonavadekar:
Alistair , what claim Barry Boehm made ? did he said that good people are not required ? surprising. person who developed win - win model as an extention to spiral development & COCOMO model saying so .
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Originally posted by Jim Baiter:
I really like the approach you are offering with Agile especially in the "no fixed process per project" rule. But do you think there could be a "cafeteria" of processes in an organization from which projects could choose?
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