Today, I attended excellent Agile session conducted by NCR Agile User Group (NAUG). It was well received and lot of good discussion happened around Scrum & XP.
There were people from different companies. They are using different processes and methodologies in their respective projects. It was nice experince to listen different views.
Few discussion points were
Pair programming - It was hard to convince about Pair Programming productivity. Pair programming creates impression of more effort in comparison to traditional way of software development. It is true if one consider only a single sprint. But it would not hold true for complete project lifecycle. It reduces effort due to better quality output of pair programming.
Duration of Sprint - Good discussion happened on duration of Sprint. Scrum recommends almost fixed 4 weeks sprints with daily scrum meeting.
Rework or Refactor - A new name to rework in Agile is refactor. Is it possible to avoid this in traditional methodology? Refactor is going to survive and will promote Test Driven Development along with it.
One of major practice of Agile methodology is continuous feedback from Customer. It may be difficult to find customer who wants to work in such close collaboration mode as required by Agile.
There were people from different companies. They are using different processes and methodologies in their respective projects. It was nice experince to listen different views.
Few discussion points were
Pair programming - It was hard to convince about Pair Programming productivity. Pair programming creates impression of more effort in comparison to traditional way of software development. It is true if one consider only a single sprint. But it would not hold true for complete project lifecycle. It reduces effort due to better quality output of pair programming.
Duration of Sprint - Good discussion happened on duration of Sprint. Scrum recommends almost fixed 4 weeks sprints with daily scrum meeting.
Rework or Refactor - A new name to rework in Agile is refactor. Is it possible to avoid this in traditional methodology? Refactor is going to survive and will promote Test Driven Development along with it.
One of major practice of Agile methodology is continuous feedback from Customer. It may be difficult to find customer who wants to work in such close collaboration mode as required by Agile.
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