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Did your agency pay the the firm conducting the Boot Camp? You guys were robbed. Find someone who knows what they're talking about. I applaud your skepticism, sir.
B. Mead
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Why I suddenly need to think about Dilbert?
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I've heard that bus driving ain't too bad! 
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Well, if my coding fails miserably I might as well try as an instructor at an Agile bootcamp.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Snake Oil purveyors are always around; all of these camps and movements and manifestos sometimes smell like an attempt to avoid, or at least postpone, work.
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"Agile" and all the other such paradigms are complete nonsense that are being used to replace simple, common sense so that many people can make money promoting them.
You simply cannot build high-quality systems and applications without quality requirements gathering, quality design, proper scheduling, and technicians who understand that code is as much an art as it is a science.
However, to get around all this we have the latest buzz-word development paradigm in Agile.
I have worked in many shops that consider themselves "Agile" and all of them have boiled down to we simply don't have the time to do the work properly...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I was the trainer in this particular class and I would like to apologize to Earl for not making the message clearer. In no way was it intended to sound like anyone can do anything. In fact in the class it was specifically stated that the view that everyone can code is a mistake and it doesn't work. That would be a purist/dogma view and would be lunacy. The statement was that everyone needs to step outside their skills and help other team members. Even if it means that BAs test, developers write requirements, or any other combination, "as long as they have the skillset and/or mentoring available to be able to do so". The goal is teamwork, not replacing specialists with generalists.
In addition, calling everyone a "developer" is not intended to reduce the value of that skillset. Instead it's to promote the concept that the entire team is producing the product, not just developers/coders. A tester or BA, etc., is no less valuable than any other team member and everyone is involved in "developing" the product.
I would like to suggest that next time you are in a class and you feel so strongly about something, that perhaps you should ask a question in the class rather than taking to public forums. I would have gladly explained further or had a debate in person. Perhaps then you could have walked away with a better understanding.
Again, I would like to apologize if that message was not properly conveyed.
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Sheesh!
Unit testing done. Solution's automated tests done. Merge to trunk, phew, done. Watching the damn thing build and deploy, is still suspenseful.
You think that I would have gotten over this by now. 
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So, have you picked a name for the baby yet? Is labor almost done?
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You'll have to ask his EXe!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Groan!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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We should come up with a product that allows people to watch automated builds side-by-side with a clothes dryer whilst popping bubble-wrap.
We'll make a Fortune!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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One of the ironies of my long career at my current job (24 years and counting) is the consistency of build times. The product I was building 20 years ago took 45-60 minutes to build and several floppies to archive. Our current products take 45-75 minutes to build, and 1 or 2 DVD's to archive.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Anyone else using Bluemix[^]? I just got free trial access. Later this afternoon going to see if I can cook something up. Got some learning to do![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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I just hope that teenage "Radioactive Boy Scouts" don't get their hands on this: [^].
« I am putting myself to the fullest possible use which is all, I think, that any conscious entity can ever hope to do » HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer) in "2001, A Space Odyssey"
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Thanks Karel.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Remember, though, that everything visible in that picture is unimportant, compared with one human making the decision to have a Mars bar, rather than some fudge.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you've ever been to Lewes, an other wise sleepy Sussex town, on 5th November, then you'll know when I saw this headline I immediately thought "Lewes" -
English town burns effigy of Alex Salmond on bonfire night
I remember going and it was Maggie up there in pride of place.
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I've often wanted to go (not just for the fireworks, but also the King & Barnes!)
One year we'd planned to stay with our friends in Paddock Wood and drive down, but the lady of the house was pregnant and due that week (thoughtless of her!)
Alex Salmond is just a silly billy, I'd vote for Cameron or Clegg myself!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: the King & Barnes
That's Horsham. Harveys is the Lewes brewery. And damn fine beer it is too! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sorry Richard, I've been out of the UK for 18 years and the memory isn't what it was (or has it always been bad and I've forgotten?).
You are, of course, correct and Harvey's does a nice pint. Was it (is it) them that does an Old called Elizabethan ale?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: Was it (is it) them that does an Old called Elizabethan ale?
Yes: http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/164/2416/[^]
Unfortunately:
Harveys Elizabethan Ale
Availability: Limited (brewed once)
Notes: This beer is retired; no longer brewed.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I thought it used to be brewed every winter. I certainly had a pint or two (not in the same sitting!) way back when.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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