Re: Digest Number 135

Mike Johnson wrote:

 > Forgive the nerdish lack for understanding the reference...
 > angler/fishing?

Forgive the nerdish in-joke.  It's a reference to /The
Diamond Age/, by Neal Stephenson -- a good read, which I
don't want to spoil for anyone by explaining too much.
Email me for spoilers.

Now on to the meat of the topic:

 >
 > Most of my projects are done remotely (XP and/or otherwise), and I've
 > noticed that continuous communication is really important - regardless
 > of topic... keeping the lines open just allows more opportunities for
 > work to slip in...

I don't get what you're saying in that last sentence:
expanding scope?  More work communication via more
communication in general, on the theory that you can't keep
work information out of conversations even if you tried?

 > Any project that had less that two days a week of
 > talking with a customer dies... the ones that really fly are daily -
 > even if you aren't 100% on topic.

Well, we get about a day a week with our customer, and are
surviving.  Two would be much better, granted.  And we're
trying to get on-site.  In our favor, our application is
pretty straightforward, and one member of the team acts more
or less as a Business Analyst, and does a good job of it.

For what it's worth, I sat down and scored our project
yesterday, and on a scale of 1 to 5, where Ron and Kent
score 5, we're at 3.0, with a standard deviation of 1.58
(which, interestingly, is /exactly/ the standard deviation
of the sequence 1 2 3 4 5).  So we're about halfway to full
XP, but when it comes to individual practices, we're all
over the map.

 > I thought this was a fundamental idea behind XP - creation is a
 > continuous dialog... surprisingly, its easy to forget when working
 > remotely..
 >
 > I hope I didn't sound like I was fishing.

What is the sound of one poster fishing?

--George Paci

  Attempts to make a general system for handling anything always seem to
  end up being programming languages. Worse, because they are small,
  in-house projects, they end up being scruffy, limited programming
  languages. -- William Pietri




 

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