AGILE

[cojak]

SDLC is the layer 2 protocol for IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA). This is pretty old hat no?

Software Development Life Cycle, not Syncronous Data Link Control.

My advice would be to stay out of threads you don't understand Dear. It makes you look like a know-it-all idiot.

Or a sockie.

[fullyautomatix]

Software Development Life Cycle, not Syncronous Data Link Control.

My advice would be to stay out of threads you don't understand Dear. It makes you look like a know-it-all idiot.

Or a sockie.

I would guess sockie and a really bad one at that, worst for a while.

[GB9]

Was it this:-

.NET Developer - Prestigious Software House - Reading (22572826) - reed.co.uk

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"You will be working alongside an MVP and well respect author on Agile and .NET / C# development. " set the BS indicator off

Out of interest, I am wondering who states that 'you will be working with ......well respected author etc.'. Is it the person who engages the agent per chance? Or does the agent know their subject matter so well that they put this in of their own accord?!?

[tranceporter]

Both I guess. Helps the agent create the usual pie in the sky spec. No dearth of jobs offering a year salary equalling 3 month's invoices
I don't know why people respect degrees, social status, achievements (MVP etc) so much. Does not mean that other's are idiots. It just means that we are after the thing that matters more than all bulltulip.. monies

[DigitalUser]

As someone who considers themself an Agile developer, I can concur with a lot of the things that have been said already:-

- The interviewer was a muppet. Enough said.
- A lot of people bluster about Agile. This annoys me greatly.
- A lot of people subjugate Agile into whatever they want the process to be i.e. no planning, no documentation.

Agile done in the correct manner *should* lead to the thing that the customer wants being built, to a high standard and quality. It's not a silver bullet though, and a lot of 'Evangelists' so speak a lot of guff.

[magicbuttons]

"Agile" is among the terms I have in my contracts-to-email exclusions list. Its mere mention in an architect/developer spec suggests a culture of micromanagement and an atmosphere in which I would not enjoy working.

[nomadd]

"Agile" is among the terms I have in my contracts-to-email exclusions list. Its mere mention in an architect/developer spec suggests a culture of micromanagement and an atmosphere in which I would not enjoy working.

Full-on Scrum in my current gig. It's fooking madness. Half the team is in India, so the "Daily 15 minute stand-up around the story board" is a very strange experience indeed. We tell the Indian team which post-its we moved to which columns afterwards.

[tractor]

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"Agile" is among the terms I have in my contracts-to-email exclusions list. Its mere mention in an architect/developer spec suggests a culture of micromanagement and an atmosphere in which I would not enjoy working.

Indeed, we have enterprise architects dithering about the minutiae of interim functional enhancements on a daily basis. And now they want a huddle at 8.30 every day!!! FFS I'm not cuddling anyone at that time, they will be lucky if I'm parking my car that early!

edit and I forgot to mention, it's just one step away from lots of fag packet specs stuck around a bunch of cartoon stick men

oh and I just noticed the number of my post

[GB9]

Full-on Scrum in my current gig. It's fooking madness. Half the team is in India, so the "Daily 15 minute stand-up around the story board" is a very strange experience indeed. We tell the Indian team which post-its we moved to which columns afterwards.

You're not in retail are you?

[tranceporter]

Indeed, we have enterprise architects dithering about the minutiae of interim functional enhancements on a daily basis. And now they want a huddle at 8.30 every day!!! FFS I'm not cuddling anyone at that time, they will be lucky if I'm parking my car that early!

edit and I forgot to mention, it's just one step away from lots of fag packet specs stuck around a bunch of cartoon stick men

So have they yet managed to get passport size pics of you to stick on the kanban blue board? Our pics were taken 4 months ago, but they are still gathering dust on the window sills because the scrum masters could not find the appropriate places to put them