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"If your building a Web 2.0 site, or some product that must adapt to changing needs, it makes good sense"

5/10/2014 4:29:28 PM

haha web 2.0. AntecK7 is dumb.

5/10/2014 5:40:08 PM

whatever the internets is these days

5/11/2014 12:37:45 AM

by the way, the word you were looking for was "you're".

5/11/2014 1:06:14 PM

whats yourve?

5/11/2014 5:16:47 PM

If you have a big ball of mud then no process methodology will save you. Just use common sense: if something changes in the business rendering the current plan useless you have to change it. There is a balance with feature creep, but thats where the judgement and common sense kick in. If you're in heads down mode building something new don't have a meeting, meeting of meeting, and planning meeting everyday.

I've had jobs in "waterfall" where there was one meeting every six months and "agile" jobs with meetings taking up half my day, which didn't seem very agile

There's a joke going around somewhere about agile being an acronym and the 'E' stood for Endless meetings.

5/12/2014 11:54:50 AM

This is also a good way for product managers to turn engineers into task executing drones.

5/19/2014 4:20:11 PM

^The point of SCRUM is to enable engineers to prioritize their own work and in doing so, reject work that isnt well defined, understandable or described in a decomposed manner.

5/19/2014 7:57:43 PM

Yes, efficiently prioritize tasks from product owners. Efficient little drones

5/21/2014 1:15:59 AM

There isn't a Dev I work with who is a drone, or thinks like one.

Saw this pop up today, explains all the cameras I saw around the building the last couple of months

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/stories/scaling-agile-across-the-enterprise/

Its pretty cool. I was part of the team during that Sprint 1 time, and it was a trainwreck. It really took almost 10 sprints for things to start settling out and people to really adapt and change. Aaron, Gregg and Brian are really amazing and humble people.

And I work really closely with both Peter and Doug today.

5/24/2014 12:25:59 AM

anyone younger than 50 should be able to adapt to any development methodology fairly quickly

5/24/2014 11:20:29 AM