We use agile on our large projects at Guidewire. We have over 100 successful enterprise customers, some of the largest insurers in the world. We've been doing it for multiple software generations now.
So your claim is that your team delivers two weeks worth of work to test, it's packed with defects, and agile is the problem? Your problem is that your team can't deliver even two weeks worth of work without defects. Imagine how many defects they'd have if you waited a whole year to find out!
Kind of missing the point of agile if you're 15 months in and haven't delivered anything. I mean, you can call it agile (you could also call it waterfall), but if you're not following agile practices, don't blame agile for the failure.
I've measured it. Repeatedly. My average gain is more than 5 minutes, with over 25 samples on each, and over 100 samples that say my best time accelerating slowly is beaten by at least 4 minutes 98% of the time. And the two times I've failed were due to being blocked by an accident, and a film crew (so accelerating slower wouldn't have done well in those cases either, there was just nothing to be done those days).
Yep, fundamental human nature. Humans seek self-advantage. Politics has a tendency to create opportunities for advantage, and advantage seekers will find those opportunities.
Dialup and satellite are not suitable substitutes for most people. Dropping an order of magnitude, or two, of bandwidth is going to be a tough sell to geeks. GoDaddy was comparatively painless to give up, in most cases people who made the switch had only the pain of the switch, and then get to live with a better provider forever after.
Well, but you said its license was extended 10 years, so if this policy had been in place, it would have been operating, because the policy allows the regulators to grant exactly those kinds of extensions.
I've measured it repeatedly. The advantage is a bit over five minutes. I have a lower speed commute where a smaller difference in average speed has a higher yield. If I could average 45 on my commute that'd be sweet! I'm more in the 20 vs 15 range.
Aggressive driving that results in accident risk is usually describing something else entirely. I've had zero accidents in 20 years (my last accident was before I had a commute, and didn't drive this way). My commute is about 30 minutes per day the slow way, 25 the fast way. My commute involves a lot of stop signs, so there's no timing to be had, unfortunately. If there was timing, I'm sure you'd be right. And yeah, that 5 minutes is pretty noticeable. I have less than an hour's window from arrival home to bedtime for my kids. Those minutes count for a significant percentage increase in time spent with my kids.
Making the time free gives me the choice. I can make more money (indeed, I can get paid $120/hr, and in that respect I am indeed quite fortunate), or I can spend time with family, hobbies, etc, which I value even higher. The bottom line is that commuting is the single worst waste of my time, and the less of it the better my quality of life.
Well, I'm generally hitting the gas after it's safe to enter the intersection, of course. It's just clear that I'm hitting it harder than most of the drivers around me, but they're definitely no safer than I am (since in all cases we remain below the safe impact speed of the cars we're in).
Yeah, a 6 year old car in california is (at least generally) NOT sold at a 75% discount. Try maybe 25%. At 75% you'd know for sure there was something seriously wrong with it the owner probably wasn't telling you.
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I would definitely not think of size or complexity as barriers to agile.
The design issue you're describing is usually thought of as a spike:
http://agile101.net/2009/09/29/using-%E2%80%98spikes%E2%80%99-in-agile-software-development/
We use agile on our large projects at Guidewire. We have over 100 successful enterprise customers, some of the largest insurers in the world. We've been doing it for multiple software generations now.
Absolutely. But you can do any process wrong, and waterfall is in many respects much easier to screw up.
So your claim is that your team delivers two weeks worth of work to test, it's packed with defects, and agile is the problem?
Your problem is that your team can't deliver even two weeks worth of work without defects. Imagine how many defects they'd have if you waited a whole year to find out!
I have a hard time deciding if that website is satire or not. If it's a fake ... it's an impressively detailed one.
Kind of missing the point of agile if you're 15 months in and haven't delivered anything. I mean, you can call it agile (you could also call it waterfall), but if you're not following agile practices, don't blame agile for the failure.
Also, sorry for the double reply, I'm not exceeding the speed limit.
I've measured it. Repeatedly. My average gain is more than 5 minutes, with over 25 samples on each, and over 100 samples that say my best time accelerating slowly is beaten by at least 4 minutes 98% of the time. And the two times I've failed were due to being blocked by an accident, and a film crew (so accelerating slower wouldn't have done well in those cases either, there was just nothing to be done those days).
Fortunately, I have facts that say otherwise.
Yep, fundamental human nature. Humans seek self-advantage. Politics has a tendency to create opportunities for advantage, and advantage seekers will find those opportunities.
No, Obama won't. But Romney won't either, so this one isn't a reason to switch.
Dialup and satellite are not suitable substitutes for most people. Dropping an order of magnitude, or two, of bandwidth is going to be a tough sell to geeks. GoDaddy was comparatively painless to give up, in most cases people who made the switch had only the pain of the switch, and then get to live with a better provider forever after.
Well, but you said its license was extended 10 years, so if this policy had been in place, it would have been operating, because the policy allows the regulators to grant exactly those kinds of extensions.
I've measured it repeatedly. The advantage is a bit over five minutes. I have a lower speed commute where a smaller difference in average speed has a higher yield. If I could average 45 on my commute that'd be sweet! I'm more in the 20 vs 15 range.
I don't exceed the speed limit, and I've never run anyone off the road.
My rationalization was the time value of my time. If you don't value your personal time, that's your problem, not mine.
Aggressive driving that results in accident risk is usually describing something else entirely. I've had zero accidents in 20 years (my last accident was before I had a commute, and didn't drive this way).
My commute is about 30 minutes per day the slow way, 25 the fast way.
My commute involves a lot of stop signs, so there's no timing to be had, unfortunately. If there was timing, I'm sure you'd be right.
And yeah, that 5 minutes is pretty noticeable. I have less than an hour's window from arrival home to bedtime for my kids. Those minutes count for a significant percentage increase in time spent with my kids.
Right, but in a decade of driving, the maintenance extras haven't even come close.
Making the time free gives me the choice. I can make more money (indeed, I can get paid $120/hr, and in that respect I am indeed quite fortunate), or I can spend time with family, hobbies, etc, which I value even higher. The bottom line is that commuting is the single worst waste of my time, and the less of it the better my quality of life.
Right .....
And, of course, Fukushima was less than 3 months over 40. If the tidal wave had been 3 months earlier, everything would have been fine?
Which works out great if you can find a used vehicle with exquisite maintenance records.
Well, I'm generally hitting the gas after it's safe to enter the intersection, of course. It's just clear that I'm hitting it harder than most of the drivers around me, but they're definitely no safer than I am (since in all cases we remain below the safe impact speed of the cars we're in).
Yeah, a 6 year old car in california is (at least generally) NOT sold at a 75% discount. Try maybe 25%. At 75% you'd know for sure there was something seriously wrong with it the owner probably wasn't telling you.
No problem, enjoy wasting your life.
It is, in fact, the only other option available. Maybe another option is possible, but since it doesn't exist currently, it's not available.