...they by-pass a solid design stage and whip out the agile card. It allows them to get onto the fun parts straight away. Of course, it all turns to custard. Good design is a combination of education, and experience. In the end some perople just never get it.
You should get with the times. Agile is so out. Kanban lets you get into the fun parts with even less design.
It's a FOSS tool designed to solve just the problem you have and it has most of the features you need, except file attachments, which aren't there (at least just yet). Currently Agilefant lacks some of the customization options commercial software like VersionOne or Rally have, but many of our users have been quite happy with the current functionality.
Agilefant handles multiple product, projects and iterations simultaneously with ease. In addition to normal backlog lists, it has a personal job queue for each user so you can see what you were planning to do next. If you enter your effort estimates for tasks, Agilefant will calculate how much work on average you have planned for the few next weeks.
Agilefant runs on Tomcat and MySQL and is really easy to install.
Disclaimer:
I'm a former Agilefant developer and currently working on a project very close to Agilefant development.
Kind of related to this is decision making. Don't put a decision off to make sure we know 100% the best possible solution. Usually a good-enough solution will work until more is known about the problem (especially if it contributes to the later solutions).
I've seen near a year lost on a project because management couldn't make the decision everyone knew they would.
There is actually an interesting parallel to this coming from the Lean software development ideology. You shouldn't make a decision until the last responsible moment, when you have the maximum amount of information.
The ultimate stupid thing in Excel and Word used to be the way they implemented internationalization. The built-in function names were actually different depending on the language of the user interface. That meant, anything using the more advanced functions in Word or Excel failed spectacularly when opened in an internationalized version of the program.
I mean, how freaking stupid you have to be to implement something like that...
Naturally, nowadays I use LaTeX2 whenever possible (LaTeX-illiterate co-workers...)
How the heck is CS as a science supposed to gain anything from the flock of people who select their subject of study based on which gives the best money/effort ratio at the moment?
These are just the kind of people who spend the minimum possible amount of work to get a grade. I wouldn't think they would be interested in CS. Instead, I would imagine that they would be interested in software engineering (management) so they can land a low level manager job straight out of school.
"Jobs' personal abuses are also legend: He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums. Yet many of his top deputies at Apple have worked with him for years, and even some of those who have departed say that although it's often brutal and Jobs hogs the credit, they've never done better work."
Basically that means, they are withstanding stress, credit hogging, abuse and tantrums so that the company they are working for (and Jobs) could make more money? I think slaves doing back-breaking menial work under the whip wouldn't have done "better" work without the whip, but did doing "good work" for their masters really make them happy?
"WMD" has become almost as much a euphemism for "The Man can do anything he wants" as "terrorism" and "child pornography"; not the root password to the Constitution, say, but at least superuser. And it's been written into all kinds of state and local criminal codes which will never, ever, under any conceivable scenario, be applied to people actually using nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons. It's been used to charge drug dealers on the absurd theory that drugs are WMD -- er, no, people don't generally wander the streets begging dealers to sell them sarin gas to use on themselves! And of course any explosive device (whether said device exists or not...) will be labeled WMD by some ambitious prosecutor, because it grabs headlines. The original meaning has been diluted to the point where the phrase is useless, and can therefore mean anything you want it to, which is exactly how the people who abuse it want things. But doesn't that mean, that there really are WDM:s in Iraq? So the white house was not lying after all! Bush was just a little ahead of the curve in the evolution of English language.
How is it different if you use high tech equipment to listen in on people from eighty feet away and recording everything they do in public versus some crazy perv with mirrors on his shoes and a small video camera?
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I'll add Fallout 1&2, Planescape Torment, System Shock and even Ultima Underword 2 to that, although it has that dreadful snow level with snowball throwing Yeties, slippery ice fields and a button pushing maze. It's all about engrossing story. Imagine you had to read a fantasy book where the hero spends the first 100 pages killing rats.
That is actually interesting question, but it's not like the idea hasn't been around for a while. In most CRPG:s the challenge rises when you gain levels. The difference with Oblivion is that is made it automatic and it's also quite evident.
That's why TPM is being pushed by DRM proponents: TPM means your computer no longer trusts you (its owner). It means that someone that can convince Verisign to sign their key will be able to have access to all your secrets- including the ones that you do not. It already happened.
This is actually exactly what is happening with Symbian OS 9.0 and Platform Security. Several layers of protected functionality and naturally DRM is on the most secure one. Good luck trying to get the hardware vendor to sign your media player application which plays DRM-enabled files.
I am quite sure that Symbian OS 9.0 is spelling the eventual death of Symbian environment as it will be replaced by Windows and Linux based operating systems.
Eh? I presume you are talking about Norway there. There are other scandinavian countries like Finland and Sweden that have practically none or very little natural resources (other than wood and clean water). Scandinavia is NOT a country, it is geographical area, just like North America is not a country, but a continent.
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...they by-pass a solid design stage and whip out the agile card. It allows them to get onto the fun parts straight away. Of course, it all turns to custard. Good design is a combination of education, and experience. In the end some perople just never get it.
You should get with the times. Agile is so out. Kanban lets you get into the fun parts with even less design.
Why don't you give Agilefant 2.0 alpha a try?
It's a FOSS tool designed to solve just the problem you have and it has most of the features you need, except file attachments, which aren't there (at least just yet). Currently Agilefant lacks some of the customization options commercial software like VersionOne or Rally have, but many of our users have been quite happy with the current functionality.
Agilefant handles multiple product, projects and iterations simultaneously with ease. In addition to normal backlog lists, it has a personal job queue for each user so you can see what you were planning to do next. If you enter your effort estimates for tasks, Agilefant will calculate how much work on average you have planned for the few next weeks.
Agilefant runs on Tomcat and MySQL and is really easy to install.
Disclaimer: I'm a former Agilefant developer and currently working on a project very close to Agilefant development.
In Soviet Russia, open source monitors you!
Kind of related to this is decision making. Don't put a decision off to make sure we know 100% the best possible solution. Usually a good-enough solution will work until more is known about the problem (especially if it contributes to the later solutions).
I've seen near a year lost on a project because management couldn't make the decision everyone knew they would.
There is actually an interesting parallel to this coming from the Lean software development ideology. You shouldn't make a decision until the last responsible moment, when you have the maximum amount of information.
I know, easier said than done.
The ultimate stupid thing in Excel and Word used to be the way they implemented internationalization. The built-in function names were actually different depending on the language of the user interface. That meant, anything using the more advanced functions in Word or Excel failed spectacularly when opened in an internationalized version of the program.
I mean, how freaking stupid you have to be to implement something like that...
Naturally, nowadays I use LaTeX2 whenever possible (LaTeX-illiterate co-workers...)
How the heck is CS as a science supposed to gain anything from the flock of people who select their subject of study based on which gives the best money/effort ratio at the moment?
These are just the kind of people who spend the minimum possible amount of work to get a grade. I wouldn't think they would be interested in CS. Instead, I would imagine that they would be interested in software engineering (management) so they can land a low level manager job straight out of school.
No, it's not Sid Meier's Pirates!
It's LARRRRRRRRN!
So...
You think that almost everyone else than people regarding themselves Scottish, Brittish and European do not have intelligence?
Burn karma burn!
"Jobs' personal abuses are also legend: He parks his Mercedes in handicapped spaces, periodically reduces subordinates to tears, and fires employees in angry tantrums. Yet many of his top deputies at Apple have worked with him for years, and even some of those who have departed say that although it's often brutal and Jobs hogs the credit, they've never done better work."
Basically that means, they are withstanding stress, credit hogging, abuse and tantrums so that the company they are working for (and Jobs) could make more money? I think slaves doing back-breaking menial work under the whip wouldn't have done "better" work without the whip, but did doing "good work" for their masters really make them happy?
Please mod parent up! Blatant abuse of modding system. If you disagree, reply with your reasoning, do not mod down.
Who's really interested in long-term success anyway?
Stock holders prefer short time profits.Company execs get golder parachutes no matter what happens.
Grunts get screwed, but hey, who cares?
So the current "Pray-As-You-Go" operating system isn't doing it any more?
This is my first "I wish I had mod points" post.
I'll add Fallout 1&2, Planescape Torment, System Shock and even Ultima Underword 2 to that, although it has that dreadful snow level with snowball throwing Yeties, slippery ice fields and a button pushing maze. It's all about engrossing story. Imagine you had to read a fantasy book where the hero spends the first 100 pages killing rats.
That is actually interesting question, but it's not like the idea hasn't been around for a while. In most CRPG:s the challenge rises when you gain levels. The difference with Oblivion is that is made it automatic and it's also quite evident.
This is actually exactly what is happening with Symbian OS 9.0 and Platform Security. Several layers of protected functionality and naturally DRM is on the most secure one. Good luck trying to get the hardware vendor to sign your media player application which plays DRM-enabled files.
I am quite sure that Symbian OS 9.0 is spelling the eventual death of Symbian environment as it will be replaced by Windows and Linux based operating systems.
And cleartype. I haven't been able to find workign alternative for W2k.
Eh? I presume you are talking about Norway there. There are other scandinavian countries like Finland and Sweden that have practically none or very little natural resources (other than wood and clean water). Scandinavia is NOT a country, it is geographical area, just like North America is not a country, but a continent.