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Certified Scrum Product Owner Training - December 8th - 9th

SolutionsIQ Agile Training — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:21:08 GMT

Certified Scrum Product Owner Training Scrum increases the emphasis on assessing and

Re: Agile networking lunch on Friday

Merlyn Albery-Speyer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:16:57 GMT

I may come along.

Agile networking lunch on Friday

Kimberly Wallmark — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:44:42 GMT

Time for the monthly Agile lunch! Same time, same place: McMenamins on NE 15th and Broadway, from 1 until whenever people leave. Newbies and the curious are

Re: A couple of open questions

Mark Knell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:17:55 GMT

"Can you provide some support or rational for your assertion that craft was some back-woods cabala that resisted change..." Yep. I don't know where you came up

Re: A couple of open questions

Steve Willoughby — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:22:44 GMT

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:10:44PM -0700, Mark Knell wrote: [quoting Ward Cunningham] ... I love that (and the modified form). Thanks for that, Ward. :) ...

Re: A couple of open questions

Ward Cunningham — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:15:26 GMT

Friends -- please don't forget that all these terms are metaphors. No one is suggesting developers weave baskets or drive trains. I've never found the

Re: A couple of open questions

Mark Knell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:48 GMT

"our chosen medium has uniquely awesome powers that we have yet to fully exploit" Very well put. This touches another of my objections to Software as Craft:

Re: A couple of open questions

Travis Brooks — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:09:49 GMT

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Re: A couple of open questions

marty.nelson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:01:34 GMT

Mark - Can you provide some support or rational for your assertion that craft was some back-woods cabala that resisted change and stood in the way of man's

Re: A couple of open questions

Mark Knell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:59:22 GMT

John, [If this starts to feel like a flame war, call me on it. I intend it as honest disagreement, sprinkled with sarcasm of course, but no animosity

Re: A couple of open questions

Ward Cunningham — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:52:31 GMT

Friends -- please don't forget that all these terms are metaphors. No one is suggesting developers weave baskets or drive trains. I've never found the

Re: A couple of open questions

Mike Leach — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:59:00 GMT

I think there's some confusion around 'craft' as process and 'arts and crafts' as the output of a process. The craftsman model simply recognized that there are

Re: A couple of open questions

John Watson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:21:38 GMT

Since when are band-aids "premium" products? You can get them at any grocery store! Interestingly, quite a bit of the medicine that I use these days was

Re: A couple of open questions

Mark Knell — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:54:06 GMT

John, "Rigorous standards of correctness are not at all at odds with a craft-oriented style of software development." Hm. Maybe the usage of the term "craft"

Re: A couple of open questions

Diana Larsen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:27:35 GMT

Dibs on tweeting it! (with appropriate attribution of course.) Diana *** Diana Larsen http://www.futureworksconsulting.com "Leading Agile Retrospectives"