Comments for Ones and Threes http://www.onesandthrees.com ... blogging about coding, music and who knows what else ... Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:34:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Retrospective Prime Directive by Five Blogs – 22 July 2012 « 5blogs http://www.onesandthrees.com/2012/07/retrospective-prime-directive/#comment-9579 Five Blogs – 22 July 2012 « 5blogs Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:24:31 +0000 http://www.onesandthrees.com/?p=144#comment-9579 [...] Retrospective Prime Directive Written by: Andy Roberts [...] [...] Retrospective Prime Directive Written by: Andy Roberts [...]

]]> Comment on Closing the Loop: Retrospectives in Kanban by Twitter Trackbacks for Blogged: Closing the Loop: Retrospectives in Kanban - #kanban #retrospective [onesandthrees.com] on Topsy.com http://www.onesandthrees.com/2010/11/closing-the-loop-retrospectives/#comment-1006 Twitter Trackbacks for Blogged: Closing the Loop: Retrospectives in Kanban - #kanban #retrospective [onesandthrees.com] on Topsy.com Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:54:37 +0000 http://www.onesandthrees.com/?p=132#comment-1006 [...] Blogged: Closing the Loop: Retrospectives in Kanban - #kanban #retrospective onesandthrees.com/2010/11/closing-the-loop-retrospectives/ – view page – cached Tweets about this link [...] [...] Blogged: Closing the Loop: Retrospectives in Kanban - #kanban #retrospective onesandthrees.com/2010/11/closing-the-loop-retrospectives/ – view page – cached Tweets about this link [...]

]]> Comment on When Agile Goes Wrong by Tim http://www.onesandthrees.com/2008/08/when-agile-goes-wrong/#comment-732 Tim Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:56:32 +0000 http://onesandthrees.com/blog/?p=16#comment-732 I'd make a couple of comments. The fact that you needed to do load testing, should have come out of the acceptance criteria for your stories e.g "the system needs to support x users doing y at the same time" - if this isn't a requirment it doesn't need doing, if it is a requirement it needs to be stated. If you're fixing resource, time and features - its bound to fail. Whatever methodology. Scrum fixes resource and time, meaining that features are flexible - thats why they need prioritising - they aren't all going to get done. I’d make a couple of comments.

The fact that you needed to do load testing, should have come out of the acceptance criteria for your stories e.g “the system needs to support x users doing y at the same time” - if this isn’t a requirment it doesn’t need doing, if it is a requirement it needs to be stated.

If you’re fixing resource, time and features - its bound to fail. Whatever methodology. Scrum fixes resource and time, meaining that features are flexible - thats why they need prioritising - they aren’t all going to get done.

]]> Comment on Agile Retroflection Of the Day by Twitter Trackbacks for Ones and Threes » Blog Archive » Agile Retroflection Of the Day [onesandthrees.com] on Topsy.com http://www.onesandthrees.com/2010/01/agile-retroflection-of-the-day/#comment-374 Twitter Trackbacks for Ones and Threes » Blog Archive » Agile Retroflection Of the Day [onesandthrees.com] on Topsy.com Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:34:53 +0000 http://www.onesandthrees.com/?p=83#comment-374 [...] Ones and Threes » Blog Archive » Agile Retroflection Of the Day www.onesandthrees.com/2010/01/agile-retroflection-of-the-day – view page – cached I’ve been nominated to contribute to Agile Retroflection Of the Day 2.0 by Levent. Todays subject is [...] [...] Ones and Threes » Blog Archive » Agile Retroflection Of the Day http://www.onesandthrees.com/2010/01/agile-retroflection-of-the-day – view page – cached I’ve been nominated to contribute to Agile Retroflection Of the Day 2.0 by Levent. Todays subject is [...]

]]> Comment on rewrite the code from scratch ? by Barry http://www.onesandthrees.com/2008/09/rewrite-the-code-from-scratch/#comment-5 Barry Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:02:33 +0000 http://www.onesandthrees.com/?p=33#comment-5 Andy, I'm at exactly the same point. Our five year old application is showing its age and adding each new feature takes much longer than it should because it's outgrown its original remit. We're using ColdFusion and because it's near impossible getting any CF staff these days we're considering starting from scratch. So do we rewrite in PHP/Rails or do we continue building a skyscraper on wobbly foundations? The developer in me wants to rewrite but it's a huge risk to start from a blank slate. Sorry to hear that v5 hasn't been warmly received. I'd ask why the powers that be took two years to offer this decision; why didn't they review sooner? I see you're in Berlin for RailsConf. Have fun: I wish I was out there myself! Barry Andy, I’m at exactly the same point. Our five year old application is showing its age and adding each new feature takes much longer than it should because it’s outgrown its original remit. We’re using ColdFusion and because it’s near impossible getting any CF staff these days we’re considering starting from scratch. So do we rewrite in PHP/Rails or do we continue building a skyscraper on wobbly foundations? The developer in me wants to rewrite but it’s a huge risk to start from a blank slate.

Sorry to hear that v5 hasn’t been warmly received. I’d ask why the powers that be took two years to offer this decision; why didn’t they review sooner?

I see you’re in Berlin for RailsConf. Have fun: I wish I was out there myself!

Barry

]]> Comment on RejectConf: The Best by admin http://www.onesandthrees.com/2008/09/rejectconf-the-best/#comment-4 admin Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:16:05 +0000 http://www.onesandthrees.com/?p=42#comment-4 Sorry Matt, didn't catch that one. Sorry Matt, didn’t catch that one.

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