I think you will find that whether developers can be more successful using
an agile approach will depend more on their attitudes, personality types,
and "soft" skills than on their technical skills or their ability to faithfully
follow the orders of managers and architects.
It goes without saying that I might be wrong.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Boucher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 10/26/2004 5:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [XP] Re: What Does Evolutionary Design mean to you?
> Therefore, even with the best designer (and I'm not available for
> the project anyway), the project will deviate /inevitably/ from
> what it coulda shoulda been. (It might still ship OK software,
> but it will /inevitably/ not be ideal.)
Agreed. My question is, given the kind of people we're talking about,
would you get better results with an agile process? I don't know. I
suspect not. I almost feel that a lot of the "failiure to adopt XP
tales" may be issues of trying to work with the people available.
I have no doubt that you could get better results with an agile
process and the right developers, but I also firmly belive we could
get better results with just having the right developers and letting
them pick or create their own process.
I know if I choose an agile process, my hiring process must reflect
that. Therefore, if I already have a group of people I need to work
with, I think my choice of development process depends on who these
people are.
But I could be wrong. I often am.
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