Stede Troisi wrote: > Dumb quote! Of course it is about the money. At > least for normal people with a family.
If you are not having fun, you are not doing anyone, anywhere, any good. If you profess to be "responsible", and to "work hard" to support your family, then you let fear dictate your life. > It is funny in a way. XP is less about programming > and > more about the human/programmer side of things. XP > stands up for programmers more then any other > methodology I read. Right. The other methodologies depended on "Chief Programmer Team" to put the alpha primate in charge of the others, based on noisiness and not talent. > Yet, when it comes to outsourcing (AKA - LOSING ALL > OUR JOBS!) we are all INDIVIDUAL programmers. No XP > philosophy in site. we just except it or bitch about > it. Almost all the leaders (Beck, Jeffries, > Cunningham, etc.) ignore it completely, especially > on this site. That's because it's not XP's job to clean the world up, or clean up your perception of it. I formerly worked for owners in France. Now I work for owners in Japan. Of course outsourcing concerns me, but so does politicians using fear to influence voters to make incredibly stupid decisions. Life is not a zero-sum game. > I wonder if XP will ever branch out into the world > of > offshoring, good and bad. I guess if there are no > programmers in this country in 10 years (and some > predict this) then it doesn't matter but if > outsourcing goes wrong I wonder how it affects > programmers in this country (as people) and how > jaded > they have/might become and how that might affect > future projects in general. XP is a handful of books on how to program. Don't worship it. > Again, I just wonder if there isn't a place in XP > for the subject of offshoring. The OnsiteCustomer practice comes to mind. ===== Phlip http://industrialxp.org/community/bin/view/Main/TestFirstUserInterfaces __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
