RE: Summing up and moving on (I hope)

So said  Alleman, Glen B.  on  2002-12-17 --------------------

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>What does work is evidence, references, working examples (bench marking)
>etc. This is then our approach, start small, build credibility, show
>bookable benefits, bring in folks who have done this before in similar
>industries (hence Raytheon XP/EVMS), attend peer conferences, etc. Over
>time (6 months or so), the actions will speak for themselves. P-Charts
>show defects being reduced due to PP and 100% UT. Entry to Exit
>durations for CMM process show the improvement in productivity of small
>iterations in small teams....

The funny thing I've seen, Glen, is that when we (my fellow programmers) present this material upward, it tends to be dismissed or ignored. It seems to me that no amount of evidence will convince the upper levels, because if it would, then we ought to have made a breakthrough by now to which we could point and say, "See?!"

The result, then, is an underground movement. I tried that at IBM Toronto and had moderate success before I ran into a brick wall and left. The funny thing is that I had six months of proof that XP can work, but nobody seemed to care.

Now I admit that my manager is not your CIO, but there are enough similar stories out there for me to conclude that I have NO CONFIDENCE that a combination of research references and practical results will convince someone about XP who doesn't want to be convinced.

"Change your organization, or change your organization."

I chose the latter, and if many of the best in the business latch onto XP and employers do not, then the ones who do will have all the talent and keep them.

J. B. Rainsberger,
President, Diaspar Software Services
Let's write software that people understand.
http://www.diasparsoftware.com/
telephone: +1 416 791-8603
All correspondence (c) 2002 Diaspar Software Services.
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