itsreallynotme

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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
... if you have a bunch of individuals doing great programming that doesn't add up to a functioning project. That's impossible.
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
So as far as I can tell, what you're saying is that it's impossible to take any process ideas from an external source, because every team is already maximally efficient. Nope. I'm saying that the process of programming is what we shoul
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
So many people date in NYC, so few commit for the rest of their lives. You just made that up.
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
Either way, it's nothing to get worked up over. Oh, I agree. My language was for emphasis, not representative of an emotional state. It's interesting to talk to someone who thinks that the same process can save a bad team and make a goo
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
A 15-minute standup isn't going to hurt a good team's productivity, while it could greatly improve the productivity of a mediocre team. It takes a lot to noticeably hurt a good team's productivity. But it's mean, just fucking mean , to
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
"Good enough" is certainly better than "not good enough". In the scenario that you described, someone went from not communicating at all to lying every day, and getting "caught" at the end of a sprint. Standups didn't fix anything there.
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
" Sure it can... If he lies every day about what he does, the longest he can go is one sprint before his work gets verified. " That's not fixing bad communication. That's wrapping it up in process, and calling it "good enough". The team
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
You say "techniques of effective collaboration", I say "talking to people". If you need guidelines for that, that's cool. The thing that suggests to me that you and I wouldn't work well together is that you make broad value judgements base
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
No amount of process can fix bad communication. Standups are an attempt at that. Teams that have good communication succeed more, and standups aren't integral to their success. Teams with bad communication fail more, and standups can't h
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
That's right. It means slower software. That's not what Agile consultants are selling.
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
I meant to answer your original question, but HN decided I couldn't post any more under "itsnotme". "So how do you build things that take thousands of programming hours to complete?" By programming for thousands of hours. Through the proce
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
Processes implemented to save lives are the product of death, and the process is put there to slow things down. Ask your friendly agile consultant how much their process is going to slow down your company. They will tell you that Agile wil
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by itsreallynotme 15y ago
HN's algorighm thinks I'm a spammer and wouldn't let me reply, but really, itsnotme. I could collaborate well with that person. If I like the product and the people enough I'll work on a team that uses "Agile". But I do it knowing that pr