What techniques have people successfully employed to encourage a developer to be more responsible and decisive and to be a proactive part of an emerging...
Direct confrontation, i.e. "Alex, let's have a talk. You seem to avoid being proactive and ..." Many people want to succeed and hate to be in an oppressive...
List them as an impediment -- Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life The greatest oak...
List them as an impediment -- Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life The greatest oak...
List them as an impediment -- Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life The greatest oak...
List them as an impediment -- Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life The greatest oak...
I will keep repeating this until the day I die. They are *not* XP engineering practices. The practices existed before XP, were used by many of us who were not ...
Sorry my fingers were arguing with my eyes as to whether this email was sent. Thus proving that the hand is faster than the eye, but not still need coffee in...
Sorry my fingers were arguing with my eyes as to whether this email was sent. Thus proving that the hand is faster than the eye, but not still need coffee in...
... Here is what I am usually doing. First of all do not pay much heed to the developer, but carefully analyze what environment they are in and what...
What if the whole team is struggling with its new empowered status and is failing to become self-organising because everyone has come from a command and...
My twopence. Could not be the problem that some of us do not want to be empowered as in "empower them" not by younger and not by older people. Maybe...
... Why is this important to you? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Yesterday's code should be as good as we could make it yesterday. The fact that we know...
... This might be a private debate, but I can't resist throwing my 2 cents in here. I've worked with many people over my 15+ years in software development,...
This is a tough situation and no single solution could possibly apply to all teams. My solution to these problems in the past might be perceived as hard line...
I was wondering the same thing. Is there a concern that the brand diminishes the value somehow? The simple fact is that they *are* XP engineering practices,...
... Hi Simon, From our experience: it sounds like you're at a natural step of adopting Agile. You recognize that this is important (which is great), but it ...
... Rock on, Martine! Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com We know less about the project today than at any time in the future. -- Chet Hendrickson You mean today...
... Ultimately we all have to do the learning on our own. But what I see in the greats in most areas, including our own, is that they have worked with -- and...
... I'd even argue that there is no such thing. Even someone like Mozart (as an example) has been influences by others in his early works and there have ...
Standing on the shoulders of giants? ... Ultimately we all have to do the learning on our own. But what I see in the greats in most areas, including our own,...
I care. Because "doing XP" is a big turn off to many people; often, exactly because of all the hype. But unit testing, or adopting test driven development,...
Because in many organizations, if you mention the word "XP", you'll have the door shut in your face. If you talk about utilizing proven engineering practices,...
... Maybe because they associate "XP" with "catastrophic" destruction and "ashes" (but no Phoenix). I wonder where they would get such an idea from? ;-) -- S...
It's dysfunctional all the way down in some organizations. Refactoring == No forethought Pair Programming == Half-productive || Incompetent when solo ...
... I don't know, because Tobias, who introduced the term, has just come out against XP, while I, who actually do support XP, suggested that the term wasn't...
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