November 16, 2005
Strange but true
I work with a group that has really bought into Agile development (and Crystal). 15 of us in one big room, with a bunch of computers. Lots of bulletin boards and white boards. Lots of color coded index cards. The room I dreamed about in my last job.
Everybody here pairs (except me). Everybody uses agile techniques (I use some of them). Everybody else knows what stories they are working on. My job changes every day (and I like it that way).
I find this strange because I am the person who is supposedly building the tools to make life easier for the programmers. It seems that I am also the new Subversion Queen. I am writing (or helping with) the opensource code, on a project that is as not opensource as a government project can be.
All of this would be ok, but I am not getting any practice on stories and iterations - and I was weak on them to begin with. I am putting X-Planner through its paces, but I don't do enough agile work to really test the code. So, other programmers here tell me what they need changed.
I have offered to teach Ant for grownups if anybody is interested. I really don't want to be a single point of failure. Of course, I never really wanted to become an Ant specialist either.
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