Thanks for your comments, Duane. Obviously I feel the same way, but it's great to hear others say it too!
Steve On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 21:03, Duane - N9DG <[email protected]> wrote: > I can vouch for the Agile process, where I work we've been using if for > about 2 years now. I've seen how it can, and does work. And a small and > growing company like Flex can transition to it quicker, see the benefits of > it sooner than a larger company. After just 4-6 cycles through the sprint > process the work/time estimating for the backlog items becomes almost > frighteningly easy and accurate. And for Agile to be truly successful having > senior management buy-in to the approach is key. > > Also the continuous build process will reap many benefits as well, been > working in that kind of an environment for much longer than the 'formalized' > Agile. And continuous builds work especially well with an extensive suite of > automated unit and integration tests run at build time. Many coding problems > show up long before the build is even handed off for manual testing. And > perhaps even more importantly, before there are a pile of other potentially > interacting code changes made, makes isolating the culprit (bug) code > easier. If the build fails because of automated tests failing, then there is > often no point wasting time testing that particular build manually. The > approach simply saves a lot of time and effort. > > These few SW development process changes all taken together can only > improve Flex's SW development efforts. > > Duane > N9DG > > > --- On Wed, 7/21/10, Stephen Hicks, N5AC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Although I'm an electrical engineer by training, I have > > spend most of my > > adult (and child) life in software development. Like > > most in this field, > > I've been over the waterfall, done SET CMM, and worked in a > > number of "Level > > Zero" organizations that were passionate with no defined > > process. This is > > my second Agile adoption and we're about a month into > > it. I pinch myself > > everyday thinking that it is a dream how well things are > > going implementing > > this process. We are essentially using Scrum/Agile, > > Planning Poker for > > estimation (I've used Wide Band Delphi successfully for > > years) and we're > > using some tools to help us with this process including > > Rally for backlog, > > release, iteration and task management and CruiseControl > > for continuous > > builds. > > <snip> > > > > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
