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    #21
    Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
    p.s. I've never had an agent have the first clue about it, so as long as you can talk through the method in an interview you'll be fine.
    I know all about it
    Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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      #22
      Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
      I know all about it
      how to pronounce
      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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        #23
        Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
        I know f*** all about it
        There ya go dodgy, fixed that for you.
        Proud owner of +5 Xeno Geek Points

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          #24
          Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
          how to pronounce
          Is there anything else that I should know about it?

          pair programming? or iterative development? or in other words you make it up as you go along
          Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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            #25
            Originally posted by swamp View Post
            For instance, I have been in planning games with over 20 people debating for an hour whether a 'story' would take 1 1/2 days' or 2 days' development time. As the Americans say, do the math.
            Last gig I was in they ended up having an argument over how to manage bugs in an agile project in every meeting. It ended up taking up 2 hours once.

            What that basically said to me was that they should not be let near a software process but they were given an agile course which gave everybody the idea that they were now experts and their opinions should be noticed.

            Agile paints itself as the silver bullet and that is very dangerous, I wish we could go back the days of "OK I am your boss, here is a task, you have 2 days to do it, put it in a build and we will test it and if it passes we will promote it to go for end user testing"

            Anyway the first agile project was a total disaster, we should have ditched it there and then.

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              #26
              Originally posted by minestrone View Post
              Agile paints itself as the silver bullet
              Agile doesn't paint itself as anything other than a methodology; the problem is that "gurus" and egotistical managers started to believe it could fix all problems and now expect it to.

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                #27
                Originally posted by Smurficus View Post
                Agile doesn't paint itself as anything other than a methodology; the problem is that "gurus" and egotistical managers started to believe it could fix all problems and now expect it to.
                method

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
                  Is there anything else that I should know about it?

                  pair programming? or iterative development? or in other words you make it up as you go along
                  there's one......anyone ever actually done pair programming? what a lot of crap!

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by jmo21 View Post
                    there's one......anyone ever actually done pair programming? what a lot of crap!
                    I once worked with a female programmer with a cracking pair. Does that count?

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by jmo21 View Post
                      there's one......anyone ever actually done pair programming? what a lot of crap!
                      Yep. Done loads. It's good for sharing skills and knowledge in a team. If you don't pair program you inevitably end up with people 'owning' parts of the code. It also keeps people from slacking off posting on CUK.
                      Cats are evil.

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