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["Charlie Poole" <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

"They sound rather fishy until you try them."

Well, for sure you're not in marketing. :-)

Actually, they sound pretty common-sensical to me.
I posted a link to it on the extremeprogramming list
as well.

He cleared up one thing that had confused me: the
different use of the word "sprint" as opposed to
its use in Scrum. I won't say what it means, so
everyone will have to read it to find out. :-)

Charlie 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hummer [mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:43 PM
> To: Charlie Poole
> Cc: nunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; nunit-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Nunit-dev] DEV: Community Agile
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:30:57 -0700, "Charlie Poole" 
> <charlie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> http://people.canonical.com/~ianc//papers/community-agile/community-ag
> > ile.ht
> > ml
> 
> Ian is a Canonical employee (he works on the bzr team, and 
> does a lot of performance auditing, etc.), and, as a highly 
> distributed company, this is the exact way we work.  It's 
> amazing the sheer velocity we're able to accomplish like 
> this, and Ian's paper is based a lot on our workflows.  I 
> think that even if you don't agree with the concepts, you 
> should try them out.
> They sound rather fishy until you try them.  In most cases, I 
> think they'll work out, and in those other cases, you've at 
> least performed the "experiment"
> in Agile terms, and you know it doesn't work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
>