http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2005/01/13/wrestling-crocodiles/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2005/01/13/wrestling-crocodiles/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Something Witty Goes Here » Blog Archive » GDC 2006: Agile Scrum Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:41:39 +0000 /?p=11#comment-14 [...] Nonetheless, I can definitely see merit in the idea behind agile development and “scrum” for many industries (like web development, desktop applications and games) because I’ve had personal experience in this on my hobby projects. See, I have a day job that takes up a good deal of my weekly day time and a family that takes up a good deal of the rest of my time. This leaves precious little time for my hobbies (like game development and web projects). As a result, maybe two years ago I started migrating from “big projects that never get done” to smaller projects with incremental updates that can be released “fully functional” and as often as possible. I first blogged about this here. This is exactly what people are calling “agile development” and the “scrum” management methodology but with the team size reduced to a size of one. It gives me a sense of validation that I stumbled upon this process on my own, but I guess this falls out of the fact that scrum/agile development just makes common sense in a lot of cases. So I’m proud to have common sense, I guess [...] [...] Nonetheless, I can definitely see merit in the idea behind agile development and “scrum” for many industries (like web development, desktop applications and games) because I’ve had personal experience in this on my hobby projects. See, I have a day job that takes up a good deal of my weekly day time and a family that takes up a good deal of the rest of my time. This leaves precious little time for my hobbies (like game development and web projects). As a result, maybe two years ago I started migrating from “big projects that never get done” to smaller projects with incremental updates that can be released “fully functional” and as often as possible. I first blogged about this here. This is exactly what people are calling “agile development” and the “scrum” management methodology but with the team size reduced to a size of one. It gives me a sense of validation that I stumbled upon this process on my own, but I guess this falls out of the fact that scrum/agile development just makes common sense in a lot of cases. So I’m proud to have common sense, I guess [...]

]]> http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2005/01/13/wrestling-crocodiles/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Rob Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:18:47 +0000 /?p=11#comment-13 Quit yer refactoring and get to work :P Try subversion and let me know how it goes. Quit yer refactoring and get to work Try subversion and let me know how it goes.

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