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Comment on There Is no “I” in “Team” by Andrei Rinea

Andrei Rinea — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:07:27 +0000

Neah.. he is right. There was no I in Team(net) either.

Comment on “My Code Has no Bugs” by Eric Price

Eric Price — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:47:29 +0000

This guy obviosly worked for some Euro
enterprise.
You would have be fired asap in the States
for that kind of attitude, CEOs DON’T tell
their software engineers there is a bug in
_their_ code. I don’t care how good or
arrogant the software engineer is.
My guess is: that it’s harder to fire people
in Europe.

Comment on Forbidden Words by Gioacasi Gabriel

Gioacasi Gabriel — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:48:22 +0000

You know well what you are saying because you had the luck or maibe you’we made your “luck” by studying hard.
Nowdays, youngsters don’t understand the true value of democracy. If you live in a democratic country like Roumania, this doesn’t mean that you are aloud to do everything you want. In all the things you do, you must respect the others, this way you respect yourself. That is in small words democracy!
Good luck in your career!

Comment on There Is no “I” in “Team” by Habakkuk

Habakkuk — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:59:59 +0000

But if you shuffle the letters there is a ME

Comment on SDBP08 by alexrosiu

alexrosiu — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:51:04 +0000

There were no certifications issued at the end of the conference, there were mostly presentations and open discussions.

We’ve set up a team in our company, composed mainly of leads and other key people, that aims to help people understand the benefits of adopting the Agile approach and practices. The most popular turned out to be the daily scrum, planning poker and we are now implementing unit testing.

In the beginning, people used to be rather skeptic and reserved regarding to the new ideas, but as time passed, we’ve all managed to understand the principles and adopt the practices that were really helpful for us at the given time. However, I think the greatest challenge is to “convert” the Product Management and Marketing departments to the Agile way of thinking, estimating and planning.

Comment on SDBP08 by Rose

Rose — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:09:55 +0000

So after the Conference, you were cetified to be a Scrum Master? As a Tech Lead, were you the first one to deal with agile developement issues in your company? Which practices you are executing now? What kind problems do you directly face in such kind of mentality and processes?

Comment on Say It Out Loud! by Scott Duncan

Scott Duncan — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:04:31 +0000

I agree with this and find it discouraging that many companies getting into agile also want to start with distributed team structures so that their only means of communicating is by email, IM, Webex/MeetingPlace/etc. At least they should look into telepresence facilities. But companies, especially the hi-tech ones often getting on the agile bandwagon, are often already used to distance relationships that they see no need to try agile with collocated teams first or, at least, distributed in a couple locations and within reasonable time zone difference.

I know of some teams, just into agile for a few months, where they are across 3 continents and the Scrummasters in a couple cases are actually all alone in their location, i.e., they are not collocated with any of the other team members.

Comment on “My Code Has no Bugs” by Pikesville Paesano

Pikesville Paesano — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:34:31 +0000

I’ve worked with ‘brilliant’ developers, who had convinced me at the time they were smarter and more technically advanced than I, but after they moved on and I took over their legacy code, I realized there is a huge difference between ‘genius’ and ‘clever’.

Comment on 0 error(s), 0 warning(s) by Rattier Sebastien

Rattier Sebastien — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:32:42 +0000

dear all,

Even if you have a Gc that is perfect, it is important to remove useless variable as well as useless code. even if I don’t consider memory usage, that i should…. have useless variable, code makes your code impossible to maintain sooner or later. For a commercial product with a long life, and probably various people working on it, it is unacceptable to let useless code or variable.

Comment on “My Code Has no Bugs” by Ranjan Banerji

Ranjan Banerji — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:24:14 +0000

In my experience there is an inverse relationship between developer arrogance and quality of code.

As you said, they guy may be good but his arrogance exceeded his skills. I see that all the time.

I look at bugs as a learning experience. They help you write better unit tests, help you rethink your approach, and improve process.