XP - Agile - SCRUM

[Garrett]

Hi guys,

I've been using Agile and Extreme Programming (XP) or Agie / XP esq techniques at work for a while now - In fact I'd been using aspects of them before I was aware that they had been formalised into methodologies.

I've spent a bit of time over the past couple of days reading up on them again, and I'm just wondering whether anybody else on here has been using these methodologies/practices and what your experiences have been?

Personally I've found aspects of all of them useful, and in many circumstances common sense.

The biggest problems I've run into are resistance to change from the commerical/management sides of the business and ensuring that the team strictly enforce unit testing - given that code hits the live environment very quickly.

Your experiences?

 

[Visage]

Hi guys,

I've been using Agile and Extreme Programming (XP) or Agie / XP esq techniques at work for a while now - In fact I'd been using aspects of them before I was aware that they had been formalised into methodologies.

I've spent a bit of time over the past couple of days reading up on them again, and I'm just wondering whether anybody else on here has been using these methodologies/practices and what your experiences have been?

Personally I've found aspects of all of them useful, and in many circumstances common sense.

The biggest problems I've run into are resistance to change from the commerical/management sides of the business and ensuring that the team strictly enforce unit testing - given that code hits the live environment very quickly.

Your experiences?

Your comments lead me to believe that you're using it for web based apps?

We've been using it for about a year now for enterprise applications. It does take some getting used to - as a career programmer i was set in my clarify/design/code methodologies, and it takes some doing to release those 'safety blankets'. That said, now that i know the new methodology i'm not sure i''d eevr go back. Our only problem has been that we work closely with a team in Israel who still use a conventional methodology, and we sometimes struggle to 'mesh' the two approaches......