Originally posted by rick salsa:
What process is everyone using? At my work we are using a combination of UP and XP. I find merits in both that its hard to choose one or the other. I'd like to know what others are finding.
I'm curious in Agile Development. Don't know much about it though. Is it something similar to UP?
Thanks for your opinion in advance.
/rick
Originally posted by rick salsa:
What process is everyone using? At my work we are using a combination of UP and XP. I find merits in both that its hard to choose one or the other. I'd like to know what others are finding.
I'm curious in Agile Development. Don't know much about it though. Is it something similar to UP?
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep
Regards,
Pho
I personally prefer the S.O.P. methodology .. Seat of Pants :-) or the brute
force and awkwardness approach of a linebacker
on the football field :-) XP and Agile sound
very much like those two.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by Klay:
To my mind, XP requires that the customer be daily involved with SW development and testing. Some startups don't even have a customer yet, let alone one willing to invest a person to be on with the team.
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus
Originally posted by shailesh sonavadekar:
what mark has mentioned is most of the times right . the companies use home - grown process. but , those are all mature organisations. it becomes really cost - effective or rather advantageous to use exiting process for start-ups.
that is the reason SEI - CMM has got various levels from intial process( Level - 1 ) to optimizing process ( Level - 5 )
Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
My feeling is most processes are too heavyweight for startups (including XP to some extend--of course, I think XP has problems of its own which would effect startups).
Originally by Kent Beck:
In fact, at the beginning of a project, you can't spend much money at all. The investment has to start small and grow over time. After a while, you can productively spend more and more money.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep
Originally posted by Doug Wang:
Actually, XPers suggest to start small (at least allow that) and grow over time. This gives the project flexibility and less risk.
Originally posted by shailesh sonavadekar:
mark , if the start-up is offshoot from people working in big , mature software companies , then there will not be intial chaos.
but , if it is from just out of college engineers , then I really find difficult to digest the fact that they have home grown process which will work all the time. so , sei puts all such organisations at level - I , where chaos is bound to be there.
Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
But without headlights, they fail to see the brick wall 2 months in front of them.
--Mark
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way. - Heraclitus