RE: eXtreme Programming

["Scott P. Smith" <ssmith@scott-smith.com>]

My point was not "XP won't work". I happen to like agile methodologies.

I was being sarcastic.  My point is this:

To talk about someone being "secretly subversive" is kind of pointless. 
All you can ever do is put checks and balances in place to make
INTENTIONS irrelevant.  Either the work gets done (and done right) or it
doesn't.  I'll take a "secretly subversive" person who always completes
his work on time, rather than someone who supports the project 100%, but
sleeps all day.

Any good development team/process must judge it's members objectively.
INTENTIONS don't really matter, and since you can't read people's minds,
all you have to go on is what they produce.

Any team/process that can't objective evaluate individuals performance
is hopelessly screwed up.

Scott

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:34, Fuqua, Andrew (ISSAtlanta) wrote:
> Oh, but it often does work in reality. It doesn't work for every team. But it works often enough to be worth considering. It's true though that you don't know if an attempt to use XP is going to succeed until you try it: Some team members might not start out being subversive, but may decide they don't like XP once they get into it and then be afraid to make their feelings known.
> andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott P. Smith [mailto:ssmith@scott-smith.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:53 AM
> To: ajug-members@ajug.org
> Subject: RE: eXtreme Programming
> 
> <snip>
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> Since you can never know if someone is being "secretly" subversive, it
> seems like you're saying XP is like communism: It looks good on paper,
> doesn't work in reality.
> 
> <snip>
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