Re: Re: Digest Number 130

Ron Jeffries <[email protected]> Fri, 9 Jan 2004 19:14:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.extreme-programming.adoption
Organization XProgramming.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday, January 9, 2004, at 6:58:22 PM, J. B. Rainsberger wrote:

> All right, so to force me to dip my toes into that murky water, I 
> essentially have to be desperate to the point of not being able to earn 
> a living otherwise. (Fortunately, in the worst case, I can always tutor 
> high school mathematics for my wife....) This means that I, for one, 
> will never cause any improvement in this general situation. If it all 
> depended on me, then non-Agile teams wouldn't become Agile teams any 
> more quickly than it is happening now.

> Questions.

> Can /anyone/ make it go faster?

I don't know. More people doing it and selling it, probably.

> If so, who's trying to do it?

We all are, every time we write one of these notes, talk to another
programmer, give a tutorial, ...

> But if not, then I guess I was just born at the wrong time and I should 
> just quit, keep bees and grow asparagus.

An interesting combination of careers. Don't the bees make your pee smell
funny? No, wait ...

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
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