Re: Practice: Weekly Cycle

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 21:23 -0500, Michael Feathers wrote:
> Why 
> isn't it enough to say that XP favors the shortest cycle that allows 
> meaningful work to be done, gives business sufficient steering and 
> developers sufficient buffer?

I agree completely with your point, Michael, that people should find
their own rhythm. But for a lot of people, especially a few years ago,
if you told them to find the shortest cycle that allows meaningful work
to be done, they'd say, "You mean as fast as quarterly?"

I haven't yet done more than peek in XP2E, so I don't know what Kent
might have intended this time around. But certainly the previous edition
challenged a lot of people to move beyond what they thought was
possible, and I'd hope that this retained some of that flavor.

William

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William Pietri <william-JnOFOPmZhjNBDgjK7y7TUQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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