by Kofi Sarfo
10. February 2010 04:12
How I nearly wet myself.
"We want to be 'Agile'"
"Really? You want to learn how to value and trust your people? Be courageous? Build the right software at the right time? That stuff? Cool..."
"Um, no. We want predictability and metrics. I want to know our velocity so that I know how lazy my developers are." - The Bovine Synchotron
It's almost as if an external consultant was providing measured commentary on our team's management imposed attempt to go agile. We're using Mingle as a time sheet application, amongst other things, with the sweetener that the alternative is either Microsoft Project and/or a dedicated time sheet application. So far I've not yet found where I'm able to record getting up between 3am and 4am to check the ETL process which fails on account of a fragile FTP interface to Bloomberg. Still, it's early days and the good news is that we're hurtling towards automated builds.
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