RE: Agile tech writing

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Wade Courtney admitted:

> Hi Patricia,
> 
> My company just started Agile too. I am the sole writer. I am 
> on 3 scrums. I
> go to design meetings, stakeholder demos, planning meetings, and daily
> standups.  I am never on sprint behind. Our sprints are 2 
> weeks long. I
> maintain a cumulative set of release notes. I think we are planning 2
> releases a year.

We don't do Agile, though:

a) somebody is talking about giving it a go for one product line

b) Agile is also the name of an Oracle plug-in that we use... 
great for purposes of confusion...

For the rest of our ... waterfall? projects, we have two 
or more releases per year. 

Meanwhile, the term "code freeze" remains a standing joke. 

We have various sorts of meetings all the time. Per product. 
So I'm in lots of meetings.  I chime in when it seems to make 
sense. I keep my yap shut when that seems a better path.
Sometimes it turns out that I'm right in one choice or 
the other.... 

We don't do GUI around here. It's all toolkit and 
command-line administration of the hardware and software. 

All of that to say, I'm still not clear on how my life 
will really change if we "formally" adopt agile methods 
across the board.


 - Kevin 



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