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Subject:RE: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW From:"Donald H White" <dwhite -at- jrtcllc -dot- com> To:"'Robert Lauriston'" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, "'TECHWR-L Writing'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 2 Dec 2009 13:08:37 -0500
A timeline:
2001------->1990s----------->1980s------>All Times
Agile=Rapid Prototyping=Vapid Prototyping=Chaos
The underlying principle behind the so-called Agile concept is good: deliver
software that works by meeting the requirements established for it. Of
course, those initial requirements aren't requirements but goals. They are
that because they can - and are - changed with each Scrum.
The framework lets programmers envision themselves as international rugby
stars, though.
Cheers,
Donald H. White
James River Technical Communications
www.jrtcllc.com
|-----Original Message-----
|From: Robert Lauriston [mailto:robert -at- lauriston -dot- com]
|Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 12:50 PM
|To: TECHWR-L Writing
|Subject: Re: I'm now blogging about Agile & TW
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|My first question when dealing with that stuff was, how do you
|avoid tying the tech writer up in hours of brain-numbing
|discussion of coding details that are irrelevant to documentation?
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|My second was, you call that disorganized mess Agile?
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