http://www.beilers.com/2010/04/making-up-your-own-methodology-wetagaile-or-w-agile/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-up-your-own-methodology-wetagaile-or-w-agile Crazy Thoughts on Software Development and Life in General Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:56:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.beilers.com/2010/04/making-up-your-own-methodology-wetagaile-or-w-agile/#comment-51 MarkSpizer Mon, 03 May 2010 07:46:41 +0000 http://www.beilers.com/?p=664#comment-51 great post as usual! great post as usual!

]]> http://www.beilers.com/2010/04/making-up-your-own-methodology-wetagaile-or-w-agile/#comment-50 Carlos Wed, 28 Apr 2010 20:42:32 +0000 http://www.beilers.com/?p=664#comment-50 Excellent points you made in your WetAgile piece. From what I have seen and accounting with the disadvantage of my own ignorance on the subjects of Agile, SCRUM, and other XP methodologies… You are right on. Teams are now creating their own flavor of Agile disregarding some of the most important points. I sometimes wish I could embrace only 50% to 60% of my marriage vows and get 100% of the benefits. There are many reasons why Software Production teams are not fully implementing Agile and find themselves in WetAgile. To me, the most obvious reasons are (1) There is no Agile Champion, or evangelist, or expert in the team. Someone who can set the methodology boundaries and help guiding the team from beginning to end, and (2) Not all organizations recognize that Software Production can and should be cheaper, faster, and better. This point is about upper management commitment. If the adoption Agile does not come from the top you will always be left with a waterfall model of some sort. Hell! If you are lucky you will get a nice WetAgile thingy going on! Excellent points you made in your WetAgile piece. From what I have seen and accounting with the disadvantage of my own ignorance on the subjects of Agile, SCRUM, and other XP methodologies… You are right on. Teams are now creating their own flavor of Agile disregarding some of the most important points. I sometimes wish I could embrace only 50% to 60% of my marriage vows and get 100% of the benefits. There are many reasons why Software Production teams are not fully implementing Agile and find themselves in WetAgile. To me, the most obvious reasons are (1) There is no Agile Champion, or evangelist, or expert in the team. Someone who can set the methodology boundaries and help guiding the team from beginning to end, and (2) Not all organizations recognize that Software Production can and should be cheaper, faster, and better. This point is about upper management commitment. If the adoption Agile does not come from the top you will always be left with a waterfall model of some sort. Hell! If you are lucky you will get a nice WetAgile thingy going on!

]]> http://www.beilers.com/2010/04/making-up-your-own-methodology-wetagaile-or-w-agile/#comment-49 New Agile… | Soapbox Rants and Raves Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:02:26 +0000 http://www.beilers.com/?p=664#comment-49 [...] where to begin…. I going to skip the obvious 14 week concept and tie this back to one of my previous posts on testing. I asked the question: Should testing be the limiting factor in the software development [...] [...] where to begin…. I going to skip the obvious 14 week concept and tie this back to one of my previous posts on testing. I asked the question: Should testing be the limiting factor in the software development [...]

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