I remember reading the eXtreme Programming Core Practices several years ago and smirking when I got to the practice that called for regular 40 hour work weeks for programmers. Like many of my fellow developers, I saw overtime as a geek badge of honor and felt pride at having enough stamina to regularly work 60-80 [...]
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In the Agile community, a war room refers to a team room where developers work, customer meetings take place, and all projected related information is displayed. It is supposed to maximize communication and transparency into the health of the project. I think one sign of a healthy agile project is evidence of some good fun. These [...]
…just do it over there and try to be quiet about it. I’ve got work to do. Anyone who has ever worked with me knows that I am not fond of meetings. I’d like to think that I have improved over the years, so it is not quite as apparent to people who don’t know my [...]
Someone sent me a great quote the other day from Douglas Adams: “I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.” It brought back distant memories of a gigantic waterfall project that I survived. I think the word survived is appropriate in this case because we labored on [...]
