{"id":115,"date":"2005-12-22T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2005-12-22T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T21:37:17","slug":"extreme-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/extreme-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been really busy with some exciting work-stuff this December. I know, what a let down. I’m sure you were expecting an article about a fat bearded man in a big red suit bungee jumping off of Hell’s canyon while drinking Mountain Dew. Sorry, but I’m trying out Extreme Programming<\/a> for a work project. They are not totally unrelated, as Santa is working under a yearly gift delivery release plan, and I’m sure he’s got lot’s of worker drones (elfs) busily coding away to help supply lines deliver this Christmas. But that is probably where the similarities cease. This is for a software project, and Santa is all about the hard-goods.<\/p>\n

So far things have been fun, scary at times, but very fast paced. We are in what xp’ers call the planning game<\/a>, which is about creating a release plan by bringing customers and developers together to talk about features (or stories) they want to develop. It doesn’t sound very exciting, but the focus on verbal communication, short release cycles and direct relationships between groups has been a welcome jolt to the normal document driven Lazy B approach to software development. I have been using Mike Cohn’s work User Stories Applied for much of the requirements generation stuff, and it’s been a huge help to getting the theory down to practical action, from how to hold a story writing workshop to how to start estimating stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been really busy with some exciting work-stuff this December. I know, what a let down. I’m sure you were expecting an article about a fat bearded man in a big red suit bungee jumping off of Hell’s canyon while drinking Mountain Dew. Sorry, but I’m trying out Extreme Programming for a work project. They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}