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[Michael Hope <michael.hope@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Joey Stanford <joey.stanford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> There is a bit of uneasiness and confusion surrounding the move to
> monthly releases so I thought I'd offer up some commentary.  Part of
> the cause of this anxiety is due to a general desire to explore the
> Agile methodology and best practices and see if what we could adopt
> inside Linaro.

Some thoughts on agile:
 * What do our members want?  They seem like a traditional, feature
focused bunch
 * How will we get the tight customer focused feedback loop?
 * How does the current 'estimate the next six month' method fit in
with a short horizon agile method without having a large overhang at
the end of the six months?
 * Most agile techniques need the team in one room.  How do we apply
them to a distributed group where the communication costs are higher?
 * Our current tools (blueprints, status.l.o) either assume one
methodology or aren't sufficient.  What will we use?
 * The XP guys claim that the whole is greater than the sum of the
parts and this might be true for most agile systems.  We'll have to be
careful that we don't cherry pick and get no advantage.

I'm happy to do this but we need to measure the cost and benefits, and
we mustn't add any overhead or duplication to the engineers.
Something agile would be a good fit to the toolchain performance work
as it's naturally iterative.

-- Michael