Re: [AM] Article of Interest in CIO Magazine

In a message dated 3/8/2004 12:49:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:
I don't understand any of this. To seem to think that I am a 
traditionalist or something. I am not; I am an Agile practitioner and 
have been for a few years.
In viw of the cogent and well-thought-out comments that you have contributed 
to this forum in the past, what would give you impression that i considered 
you a "traditionalist"? If that's the message you took from my post, I 
apologize. I intended no offense. My references were not directed at you, they were 
descriptive of some of the experiences I have had with potential clients, many of 
whom have been burned often enough in the past to want chapter and verse 
about how their software is going to be built. If your experiences are different, 
consider yourself extremely fortunate. Descriptions of experiences lsimilar to 
mine have appeared in quite a few forums, so others have apparently found 
this to be a problem at least worthy of note as well. 

Regarding your question about the level of experience to which I was 
referring, the answer is: More experienced than I. (The reference to this in my post 
should have read "from 
agile practitoners more experenced than I, that..."). In fact, relative you 
and to most of the other participants in this forum, I am pretty much a 
beginner, still learning something new from just about every post I receive. 

IMHO, at least here in Silicon Valley (where just about everyone is an expert 
in software development, or at least thinks they are), things might be a 
little different from the way they are where you hang your hat. It is not unusual, 
for example, to go to a potential client for what is supposed to be a brief 
presentation, and find a roomful of specialists (Strength in numbers? Nothing 
better to do with their time? Hanging aound until lunch arrives?), all wanting 
to get right to a demo, after which the merits of one approach or another are 
debated ad nauseum. Of course, each one of them believes that their approach 
is substantially superior to ours, and each one just happens to feature their 
particular specialty as the only way the desired solution may be achieved. Of 
course, if they were able to deliver a solution as simply, easily and quickly 
as they describe, why are they not doing it? 

Something to think about...Again, my apologies for any offense.

Regards,

Pete

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