Re: Agile Development, Anyone?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I did not believe in pair programming until I tried it awhile back.  It 
was really an accident that we wound up doing it but we both found the 
process to be fun, much faster, and more accurate with the unit 
testing.  If you let yourself really try it, it might surprise you about 
how well it works.  That does require the developers to have a good 
working relationship that is based on mutual respect, but not 
necessarily skill levels.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 8/24/2011 4:46 PM, Sam_L wrote:
> Why do I ask?
>
> I've been curious about it and it still seems to be around, despite some
> very anti articles and a degree of skepticism.  Aldon has moved to it
> and has been sending me e-mail about it.  And agile*kind of*  fits our
> current "no methodology" , no design documents, little documentation
> approach.
>
> Personally, the thought of paired programming astounds me--I don't think
> quickly enough for that approach.  And the concept of creating test
> scripts first would be a hard sell.  And I'm not sure that all projects
> are suited to be implemented in little bits, especially interactive
> applications.
>
> So I wondered what other experience y'all had, so I can decide if I want
> to invest money and time to read a book on the subject.
>
> Sam
>
>
> On 8/23/2011 11:13 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:
> > > >>  From: Sam_L
> > > >>  Is anyone using the Agile Development methodology?  Successfully?
> > >
> > >
> > >  Why do you ask?
> > >
> > >  -Nathan
> > >