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Re: Three challenges for agile projects

jerome — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:55:25 -0000

You could go further, being braver as we say here. We're deploying and demoing every weekly code iteration.

An outsiders view of our process from a days time spent here is commented on here. http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/...

As for the money part, sounds like your on a greenfield project? Here its an already established budget being spent on bringing an existing property up to date, so perhaps not comparable.. However theres some interesting work in the throughput accounting side of things which Simon, who heads up the aforementioned, is doing..

http://www.agileinaction.com/2008/04/womens-men...

Re: Three challenges for agile projects

jerome — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:10:38 -0000

I skipped over the inception of things on our side in the post; in fact http://showbiz.sky.com site was built internally from scratch without a weekly-live for the first few months.. We'd built up a good deal of 'inventory', which was unleashed in one go at 'launch'..

The subsequent projects massively leverage re-use in all areas (code, testing, infrastructure and deployment) and were delivered to live with an accepted minimal scope within 3-4 weeks each, then followed by our standard practice of pushing new features to live weekly to grow site functionality.

That we demo always weekly has always been the best way to keep iterations tightly focused, the scope of story cards compact and acceptance criterion on those clear and unambiguous.. We've experimented with two weekly iterations a bit and noticed we were more likely to get dragged deeper into the blinkered coding abyss due to greater scope on cards.. That said, everyone has reasons to roll their own :)

I fully see your point about regularly failing to release.. releasing can be hard, but with several years experience and hard work as a team automating every single part of our process, the dev, testing, infrastructure and deployment we're fortunate enough to deploy with ease and confidence weekly... Which is not to say there haven't been issues at times!

So in fact we go live weekly only with projects already live.. Any project being born is the exception to that - much as it is for you

Re: Kor One Water Bottles Support Water Causes

jerome — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:23:59 -0000

At $30 dollars a bottle they are 3-4 times the going price of a BPA-Free Nalgene bottle of a similar capacity.

So they give 1% WHOPPING percent of their profiteering ask price. BOO!

All spin and nothing green about this.

FAIL

Re: Is High Speed Rail Coming to a City Near You? A Guide to Obama's Plans

jerome — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:46:33 -0000

This is great as an idea and a stepping stone for sure.

My only reservation will be the shape and quality of the boarding system they will use. No doubt with the terrorist paranoia that riddles the US there will no shortage of overbearing security measures just a board a train.

Poor commuters - maybe they will issue Crocs to everyone to make the shoe scan quicker.

Re: Kor One Water Bottles Support Water Causes

jerome — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:23:59 -0000

At $30 dollars a bottle they are 3-4 times the going price of a BPA-Free Nalgene bottle of a similar capacity.

So they give 1% WHOPPING percent of their profiteering ask price. BOO!

All spin and nothing green about this.

FAIL

Re: Is High Speed Rail Coming to a City Near You? A Guide to Obama's Plans

jerome — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:46:33 -0000

This is great as an idea and a stepping stone for sure.

Poor commuters - maybe they will issue Crocs to everyone to make the shoe scan quicker.

Re: Canadian Transportation Agency Rules In Favor of Air Canada Over Intermodal Cyclists

jerome — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:57:35 -0000

I've had nothing but bad experiences on Air Canada... They are on my no-fly list.

Anyway. Maybe in future, box the bike up.. Worth a shot