On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:40:57 -0000, Jason Yip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > There is a story in one of Gerry Weinberg's books (Psychology of
> > Computer Programming?) where some programmers lamented the rise of
> > Time Sharing Terminals because they would lose the chance to discuss
> > their work w colleagues while in line for the card punch machine...
> > This reminded me a bit of that... ;)
> 
> XP 2nd Edition has a similar comment about "the inherent reflection
> time build into the synchronous style".  My first thought was, if
> reflection is important, why do I need an excuse to take time to do it?

This was my point... Rituals are nice, and you can argue that 'low
tech' can force you to think about what you are doing more than 'high
tech/ behind the scenes' processes. But the right answer is often that
you should not use 'the need for reflection' (for example) as a reason
to not do things better/faster.  If they are, in fact, better and
faster!

-Steve


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