Bryan Nehl
2006-01-27 19:47:30 UTC
Jason's email resonates with our experience here in several areas.
Particularly the small team, lots of projects.
We've read the XP2E book as a team and are following on with the XP
Installed book.
The XP2E book helped us with a lot of the theory and we started down the
road together.
With the Installed book we're picking up some more "how to do it"
material.
We've physically opened up our area and are enjoying the improved
communication.
We're pairing up most of the time. We notice when we don't.
We're holding each other accountable to standards.
We are still building our TDD, program by intention skills.
We are getting a lot more user involvement, but not co-located.
We are having few (near zero) minor defects found in production.
We're still getting a handle on stories and points.
We're working out issues with testing and data bound controls.
We're having problems with integration - we need to install a CI server.
We're looking to swap out VSS for SubVersion.
We are going to work on picking up design patterns soon.
And as always, how do I test this object that is generated by the ORM
tool and expects to see a database on the back end?
This week we moved 3 releases (different projects) to production. All
of them sailed through testing with no defects. We have 1 more system
pending release and 2 more in testing. Overall, a pretty good feeling
The weekly planning and keeping focus on those goals is an extremely
important thing for our team. The morning stand up helps us to keep our
focus.
Bryan D Nehl
Missouri Gaming Commission: IT | Software
Development Team Lead
bryan.nehl-oeVA+YKTi/PBMevf+***@public.gmane.org (573) 526-4090
Particularly the small team, lots of projects.
We've read the XP2E book as a team and are following on with the XP
Installed book.
The XP2E book helped us with a lot of the theory and we started down the
road together.
With the Installed book we're picking up some more "how to do it"
material.
We've physically opened up our area and are enjoying the improved
communication.
We're pairing up most of the time. We notice when we don't.
We're holding each other accountable to standards.
We are still building our TDD, program by intention skills.
We are getting a lot more user involvement, but not co-located.
We are having few (near zero) minor defects found in production.
We're still getting a handle on stories and points.
We're working out issues with testing and data bound controls.
We're having problems with integration - we need to install a CI server.
We're looking to swap out VSS for SubVersion.
We are going to work on picking up design patterns soon.
And as always, how do I test this object that is generated by the ORM
tool and expects to see a database on the back end?
This week we moved 3 releases (different projects) to production. All
of them sailed through testing with no defects. We have 1 more system
pending release and 2 more in testing. Overall, a pretty good feeling
The weekly planning and keeping focus on those goals is an extremely
important thing for our team. The morning stand up helps us to keep our
focus.
Bryan D Nehl
Missouri Gaming Commission: IT | Software
Development Team Lead
bryan.nehl-oeVA+YKTi/PBMevf+***@public.gmane.org (573) 526-4090