[chbot] Agile! Jack Ganssle AUGUST 11, 2014

[Chris Hellyar]

I’ve worked for a number of firms where Agile has failed.  For various cultural and inter-personal reasons, so as Quentin said there is no silver bullet.  I’m an Agile fan though, don’t get me wrong… 

Scrum is the only disciplined version I’ve been taught but iterative inspection and adapt methodology for projects that rely on team transparency and collaborative planning all make sense no matter if it’s in-house grown technique or a book learnt methodology.

In terms of my own code, these days I’ve become a mercurial convert and use it for everything and check in / commit code for trivial changes for my own projects, and customer work.  I used to be an SVN defender but I had an SVN repo collapse on me a while back and never forgave it. :-)

And you’d be amazed at some of the crazy practices used by commercial dev. shops.  There are a few in CHCH I know of who are always 1 step away from massive code base armageddon. ;-)

Cheers, Chris H.

On 15/08/2014, at 8:43 am, Charles Manning <cdhmanning at gmail.com> wrote:

> When my sons wanted to start programming, the first thing I did was
> set them up github accounts and taught them how to use git.
> 
> I am still amazed at how many people (even programmers in commercial
> settings) will work for weeks without doing any check ins.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Quentin McDonald <dqmcdonald at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> Thanks for sharing this Mark. I've just come out of a stand-up (one held
>> with developers in four cities over two countries) and I have, despite some
>> initial misgivings, started to appreciate the advantages of the Agile ways
>> of doing things. On the other hand a quarter century of software development