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B*tch'n and Moen
23 April 08 05:50 AM | Earl Beede | 1 comment(s)
Steve McConnell put up a post on his lack of a real estimate for a child's fort and how that was related to a software project. I have a similar example of an agile bathroom remodel. The Story Our existing bathroom had a small problem. Water was leaking through cracks somewhere in the older tile...
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Agile Complexity
09 March 08 03:09 PM | Earl Beede | with no comments
A couple of posts ago, I shared a concern with distributed agile development. A similar thing happened to me recently with another question from two different clients who work on a highly complex mobile operating system. "Can you be agile in highly complex environment with emergent system characteristics...
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Distributed Agile
21 January 08 10:30 PM | Earl Beede | 3 comment(s)
I had an interesting discussion recently with two different people about moving toward a more agile development practice. The first was a potential client who had a small team in California. The second was a with the office staff of a services firm who wanted to better understand what agile is all about...
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Context Matters
17 June 07 10:21 AM | Earl Beede | with no comments
So, I was driving along, making a right turn into a driveway like I have done a thousand times before. I did what one always does when making a right turn: I checked carefully for pedestrians and watched the driveway to make sure nobody was coming down it. I then signaled my intentions and proceeded...
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PEZ Development
20 May 07 03:41 AM | Earl Beede | with no comments
I was teaching an Agile seminar recently when the image of a PEZ candy dispenser popped into my head. Why, PEZ candy, I thought, is just like an Agile project. You work things in priority order by taking what is off the top of the stack of similar sized bits of work. We know that they are similar size...
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I Hate Project Management
24 March 07 09:36 AM | Earl Beede | 2 comment(s)
I really do. I mean, all those details you have to keep track of. Everybody coming up and asking you questions like you have some clue about what is really going on. And of course you pretend like you do. "Why, were are three days away from the googoo gate." What I really want to say is, "I...
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