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In my experience, Agile/Scrum works best in consultant line of work where as long as the customer keep paying the hours, the team will keep coding, changing to the will of the changing requirement.
It rarely works with projects that have deadline and budget constraints. These type of projects required the full understanding of the scope to properly estimate budget. The requirement must be approved before any development can take place.
Unfortunately far too many managers are in place without really understand the technical difficulties of managing the unknown. Compounding to the problem is that some managers are having ego issue, not willing to listen to the team. When I have this kind of problem, I either go directly to the upper management (yes stepping on toes and risk getting fired) or if the manage is the upper management, find another job quick. There is no reason to be stressed out and stick with a moron.
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Point out to the person bringing the changing requirements that you make the same hourly wage whether he is wasting resources by changing requirements, or planning and executing effectively, and wouldn't it be better for the business if he did some planning and analysis. Or don't point it out, but just remember it yourself.
Really the only thing that requires changing is the blaming you for his changing the requirements. Be a stickler any time you get blame. Ask for misunderstandings to be explained in writing, preferably with reference to a previous document, and keep the memos. If he won't document it, then you do, and send him an email recapping what he said was the issue. At the end, you'll have a complete list of requirements. And you may get lucky enough to catch the manager in a 360, where he first says, "go left", then says "go right", then says "go left" again, which you can call him on, with documentation. A reasonable person will "get it" when you show him such evidence of bad planning.
Requirements don't really change. What changes is the team's understanding of the requirements. Software development is knowledge acquisition, plus crystallizing that knowledge into executable form. You don't know what you don't know, until you try to build the thing.
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Wow, your boss sounds like he is clueless...
After listening to the overall goals of the project,
We start with a metaphor which frames the conceptual expectations:
- A Web Kiosk, A Public Web, A 3-tier Client, a 2-tier Client...
- Then we discuss this with the client to make sure they understand the limitations/abilities
(you probably don't want a remote interactive video editing tool)
Then we choose an even better metaphor
- Like Twitter, Like Facebook, Like....
- But NOT like, and will not
Now we have a framework concept. We still have not started any coding.
Then we meet and identify the various user "groups" (admins, managers, users, clients, etc)
Then we assign Points of Contact for each group that we can FREELY ACCESS as developers.
We start collecting the Use Cases (user stories) at a HIGH Level. Looking for exceptions.
And we mock up an presentation to demonstrate how interactions will work (no coding yet).
Now we have a PROJECT. We have wasted ZERO programming hours. We should have a general consensus.
We know the stake holders. Stake holders know where everything is going in general. They also know they are NOT the only users of the system.
Then we start the real work, which feels a lot more agile, because we are always delivering a usable system with high quality.
Did we specify EVERYTHING up front in detail? NOPE.
Did we leave everything until after the programming started? NEVER.
Will we prevent the programmer from talking to the user? (Not unless we have a to)
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What you are describing meets my definition of death by a thousand cuts.
Your baby step is to be in the meeting with your boss so you can ask the detailed questions when required.
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So, tis the season to be jolly bloody miserable!
Youngest had a very good report this term including going from no experience to A in French in one term! My dear darling love MRs Wife said she can have whatever she wants [usual terms apply] for Christmas and my, otherwise apparently intelligent child, wants a bally iPad! 
I have never owned an Apple device and not really wanted one since the days of the Apple ][. So, dear hive mind, it looks like I have to buy a Crimbo iPad. Which model is bestest for an 11yo? I only want wi-fi so mobile use doesn't come in to it.
veni bibi saltavi
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The cheapest one. Less painful (physically and financially) when it is dropped.
Doesn't matter if it's small because small fingers and good eyesight.
(and technically you still won't own an apple device  )
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"[usual terms apply]" would exclude a nearly £400 iDevice in our household.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: it looks like I have to buy a Crimbo iPad. Which model is bestest for an 11yo?
Anything that runs Android ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Please, we have been down this route but it has to be an iPad. This is in no way influenced by Besty having an iPad, iPhone, Mac Book Air and iDon't know.
veni bibi saltavi
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You could sell her into slavery instead? Be a lot less painful...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have hinted that for her to get the iWant, I may need to do away with a few things. Children for starters
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Look on the bright side: You don't have to be IT support then!
The Missus just got herself a new work phone, an iPhone. She sat all night yesterday trying to port data from her old Android and every time she had a question and asked me about it, I took great pleasure in saying:
"I don't know Honey, I don't know the first thing about iPhones"
Oh the joy! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Nah, I don't like sleeping on the sofa.
veni bibi saltavi
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That works in theory but I've found it is much different in practice.
But I do have an out, my adult daughter loves her Apple stuff so I point the wife that way.
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Johnny J. wrote: "I don't know Honey, I don't know the first thing about iPhones"
 Same at my house! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Johnny J. wrote: "I don't know Honey, I don't know the first thing about iPhones"
Same here. Wife's iPhone updated itself to whatever the latest OS is and "things are different". She was asking me the other day what she needs to do and my answer is always "get an Android". That usually buys me a day or two until she asks again, which prompts the same response.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anything that runs Android ...
And your current recommendation is?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'm still fine with my Nexus 7 - but Herself's Samsung Galaxy tab S 10.5 has a superb display.
But... It doesn't fit in my pocket, which mine does.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have an iPad mini 2 I think. there are versions with mobile and without mobile data.
You "could" buy one with if there is no price difference and just don't buy the sim.
I have a keyboard case around it, which protects it very well.
I'm pretty happy with, but I have to admit I use it for a lot different things.
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£239 worth of tears...
veni bibi saltavi
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if it's just for playing candy crush and the likes, I totally agree.
As I said, I use it for a lot of things, which makes it worth its price.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Youngest had a very good report this term including going from no experience to A in French in one term! ... wants a bally iPad!
"Non."
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Any chance you could get away with pretending your hearing's not so good, and getting her one of these[^] instead? 
"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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For the love of Pete give it a rest!
Buy the crappy €80 plastic Android tablet with the 3 year old OS. Tell us how wonderful it is and how happy your child is - but save us the sanctimonious BS.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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I don't really understand your despair. I am NOT an Apple fan but when it comes to a choice between iOS or Android (and the associated hardware) I choose iOS devices. I often get infuriated about the things you can't do or the things it forces you to do Apple's way but in the end it just works. It does what it does very well and it's very reliable. Your youngest will know how to use it and won't need any IT support because she will simply take for granted its way of working and the things it won't do. She won't expect to be able to dive into a file explorer and delete important stuff or accidentally move it to the wrong place. She won't complain about not being able to do lots of things you wouldn't want her to do anyway.
If you can afford the price just get one. Life will be much easier than if you bought one of the many crappy alternatives.
Phil
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