Oct
15
Written by:
Dylan Barber
10/15/2009 9:49 AM
Today Bruce Onder (@bonder) posted a link on Twitter to an agile development blog for Target Process (link: http://www.targetprocess.com/blog/2009/10/our-development-process.html ). Now I appreciate reading about other development processes but I just wanted to say some of us don’t get the luxury of developing in such a controlled environment.
In my company there are three developers and I act as a coordinator. Now we usually don’t even work the same projects. In fact one of my developers spends almost all his time just writing reports and another is spending almost all his time wrangling ancient dBase stuff into .NET so we can move the company as a whole forward.
Our development process:
- Boss walks in with an idea or a client request.
- I start to ask questions and start writing on the whiteboard
- He agrees that its bigger than it first sounds.
- Tells me he promised it by Friday, of course its already 5:00 pm Wednesday!
- I decide if I will do it or hand it off to one of the other developers.
I think its great that others have controlled and good systems in place but sometimes controlled CHAOS is easier!
2 comment(s) so far...
Re: "Our Development Process" - My Response
LOL. That sounds EXACTLY like our development process where I work. As an added bonus, I always like when a request comes in for something we haven't done before (or done a lot of) and it's already been promised by a certain date.
By Dave on
10/15/2009 11:06 AM
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Re: "Our Development Process" - My Response
That seems to be all of ours - we do some good stuff on our own but its always the challenges (read silly requests) from clients (and unreseasonable timelines) that make the CHAOS
By Dylan Barber on
10/15/2009 11:07 AM
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