Archives for: "September 2006"

09/25/06

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Categories: Agile, Agile Process Smells

Antipattern: Lack of effective acceptance testing

Here is one of the XP2006 workshop antipatterns the group worked on. Poor solution: Acceptance testing is either not done or done at the end Forces: Excessive belief in unit testing No testers involved Insufficient awareness of how to “agilize”… more »
  08:18:13 am, by   , 74 words  
Categories: Agile, Agile Process Smells

Antipattern: Too nice a guy in charge of planning

Here is one of the XP2006 workshop antipatterns the group worked on. Poor solution: Unable to take responsibility Cannot say no to developers/stakeholders Forces: Authority problems Inappropriate personality in key role Unclear roles/decision… more »
  08:16:48 am, by   , 141 words  
Categories: Agile, Agile Process Smells

Antipattern: Manager is Customer/Owner

Here is one of the XP2006 workshop antipatterns the group worked on. Poor solution: Manager prioritizes stories, tells how to do them, developers don’t have a say (because of manager’s authority) Forces: Customer absent Managers want to stay in… more »
  08:08:13 am, by   , 79 words  
Categories: Agile, Agile Process Smells

Antipattern: Programmer Marriage (when 2 become 1)

Here is one of the XP2006 workshop antipatterns the group worked on. Poor solution: Not switching pairs Forces: High productivity of pair Pair is happy “never change a winning team” Inability to pair with others Consequences: Pair does not… more »
  08:05:56 am, by   , 233 words  
Categories: Agile, Agile Process Smells

Antipattern: Team does not refactor enough

Here is one of the XP2006 workshop antipatterns the group worked on. Poor solution: Individuals volunteer to refactor for the team Forces: Trying to take responsibility on behalf of the team Some people do not refactor enough Some people are af… more »

09/22/06

  04:41:05 pm, by   , 106 words  
Categories: Agile, Agile Process Smells

Antipattern: Zero Velocity Iteration

Here is one of the XP2006 workshop antipatterns the group worked on. Poor Solution: Concurrent work on to many stories None of the stories are done at the end of the iteration. All stories are in progress. Forces: Desire to go as fast as possib… more »
  04:35:16 pm, by   , 346 words  
Categories: Agile, Agile Process Smells

XP2006: Antipattern Workshop Results

Here is the description of the workshop I ran at XP2006: Agile methodologies are just as prone to mistakes, deviations and subversion as any other methodology. This workshop is intended to discover and share agile process anti-patterns then discuss a… more »
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