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After googling around tonight I’m beginning to think our experiments trying to do Agile with mainframe development are extremely rare. That’s right we actually have at least one pure Agile mainframe project. Apparently it’s fallen into more on an iterative waterfall approach, but we are almost off the bleeding edge on this one. I’d love [...] At the end of a recent Sprint planning meeting, I realized we had the services of four separate PMs. Considering that’s over 50% of our available PMs I’m not sure why one project needed that level of help. I do know this particular project seems to be gathering up new documentation that needs to be [...] Popped over to our local Java Users Group (JUG) meeting to hear a talk on Dependency Structure Matrix also known as Design Structure Matrix by a company called Lattix. Never heard of it, well neither have I. The basic idea is it statically analyzes your project and maps dependencies between layers, or more accurately between [...] Kane Mar wrote recently about the difficulty teams have adjusting to finishing within an iteration: Typically what this means is that the software will be code complete at the end of an iteration, but will not have been fully tested. A comment that was frequently heard during the early retrospectives was that code was delivered [...] This week I have 3 standups a day: 9:15am Scrum Master on a Proof of Concept project. 9:30am Chicken on an internal project. 9:45am Chicken on a large systems project in another building. The disadvantage is I’m running around a lot. The advantage is I get a view into every project on my team every [...] I hadn’t quite grokked symbols in ruby for some reason. Somehow the definition from the PickAxe book wasn’t quite clear enough: A Ruby symbol is an identifier corresponding to a string of characters, often a name. OK, I can see that but what’s the point. Then playing around on Why’s 15 minute browser intro to [...] |
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