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Reply to: Developers/Architects: what methodology to you use?

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    Well you would like to think someone who has worked in software for 20+ years and who now runs an 'agile' team would at least have heard of RUP. It was the biggest software process going for a good few years. Esp as the team use rational tools.
    Fair enough, but there's plenty of acronyms I don't know...

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  • minestrone
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    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    Why would he need to know?
    Well you would like to think someone who has worked in software for 20+ years and who now runs an 'agile' team would at least have heard of RUP. It was the biggest software process going for a good few years. Esp as the team use rational tools.

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by minestrone View Post
    I was speaking to a very senior IT project manager with a big financial this week who asked me what RUP was.
    Why would he need to know?

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  • minestrone
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    I was speaking to a very senior IT project manager with a big financial this week who asked me what RUP was.

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  • DimPrawn
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    WTFDINWAPTS

    Why the fook does it not work as per the specification?

    and WTFITSLA

    Why the fook is the software late again?


    Seems to be the mantra.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Our client has the WTFDINWAPTS and WTFITSLA methodology.
    You could put these acronyms on a CV, "10 years experience with JFDIN" and get away with it I reckon.

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  • minestrone
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    What ever crap fad the new client wants to follow.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Our client has the WTFDINWAPTS and WTFITSLA methodology.

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  • VectraMan
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    Originally posted by SorenLorensen
    ;961628I've found the JFDI techique to be the best.
    Just twigged what that means.

    Though I'd call it JFGOWI.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by SorenLorensen View Post
    Having worked with all the methodology fads, I've found the JFDI techique to be the best.
    Don't know that one, but'll hazard a guess D stands for "Do"?

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  • HairyArsedBloke
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    Originally posted by SorenLorensen View Post
    Having worked with all the methodology fads, I've found the JFDI techique to be the best.
    Aye.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    Anybody who knows what any of those terms mean isn't a real developer.
    I'd say any developer who doesn't know about such things to some degree is just a programmer.

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  • VectraMan
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    Anybody who knows what any of those terms mean isn't a real developer.

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  • SorenLorensen
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    Having worked with all the methodology fads, I've found the JFDI techique to be the best.

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  • d000hg
    started a poll Developers/Architects: what methodology to you use?

    Developers/Architects: what methodology to you use?

    44
    Strict Waterfall (follow the spec at all costs)
    2.27%
    1
    Flexible Waterfall (spec is a guide but final functionality may vary)
    13.64%
    6
    Generic iterative approach
    18.18%
    8
    Agile
    18.18%
    8
    XP
    2.27%
    1
    Make it up as we go along
    40.91%
    18
    Other
    4.55%
    2
    Lots of people are into trendy methodologies like XP but I wonder how many projects actually use them.
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