10/29/2009
At the end of the last day of the course I've asked two different questions:
- What will be the easiest thing to implement at your company?
- What is probably the hardest thing to implement at your company?
Here are the answers I've got (as is):
The easiest thing
- Pair Programming
- usage of Task Board (General purpose)
- Stand up meetings
- Creation of product backlog
- Agile estimation Techniques
- using Pair Programming to help bring a new team member up to speed
The Hardest thing
- Automated unit tests/TDD
- Division into Sprints (especially short sprints)
- Locating people for scrum roles and creating a self contained team
- XP
- Building a true self contained team.
- Pair Programming
Again almost no overlap of the answers (other then a few saying TDD /AUT is hard). I really enjoyed this cycle of the course, the people attending were really great and I would like to thank them for their feedback.
If anyone is interested in attending, next time will be toward the end of December. Just leave a comment.
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I'm amazed about the top 1 hardest to implement. Personally I consider TDD and fully automated unit tests to be very easy, once you're over the hill. Usually after 3-6 months you got it.
Thanks for sharing.
actually, that was not such a big surprise to me. This is more or less consistent with Scott Ambler surveys. if you consider the other techniques in comparison (CI, Stand up meeting,Using a task board...) 3-6 months is a big effort indeed.
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