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Richard MacCutchan wrote: The problem is that, as with most things, people don't do it properly.
I agree. At my last job we implemented SCRUM and tweaked it a little to work with us and it worked great. It helped us be much more productive. Many of the main principles of SCRUM I found were very helpful.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: The problem is that, as with most things, people don't do it properly.
This point can't be overstressed. I'm not saying I'd want agile applied anywhere, there are instances where it'd be a disadvantage, but these aren't the sorts of day-to-day projects I've encountered in my life. Quite often I've heard people moaning about how agile doesn't work, normally based on a single poorly-organised "agile" project (or more correctly a free-for-all labelled as a particular agile methodology, most often XP). I've worked on a large waterfall projects - it worked but it involved a massive team working 50+ weeks over several months, it worked as it happened, but I'd say as a methodology it would be more likely to fail under odd circumstances. Pretty much the same team waterfalled another big project a year later, eventually the company had to pull out of the contract.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Well said! Give that man a Jaffa cake.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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You have to say something I agree with first. Stay clear of politics!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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You're so clever and witty Rob!
Now give me the fokin Jaffa Cake!!! 
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Now we're talking. Handsome too, although you wouldn't know that.
Meet me in Tesco's on Cheapside in 5.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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There is no Tesco on Cheapside. There is a rather nice pub[^] I can be in in, checks watch, 45 seconds. 
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*** Nagy Vilmos inaccuracy report ***
Unit 5 Cheapside London Greater London EC2V 6BJ England. From the TESCO WEBSITE. I know because its where I buy Jaffa cakes.
Pub looks half decent, but its in a place called 'Horsell', wherever that is.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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You never said which Cheapside! 
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Another great article where there are too many words.
What I find amusing is having witnessed programmers proudly strut "we're a successful agile team" while the project is failing around them.
Funny that. You can be successful at agile development and still fail at product development.
Marc
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agile started with the logical fallacy of "successful developers do this, so if we force everyone to do that, they will be successful." It then became a way for lazy managers and lazy developers to pretend they knew what they were doing. Interestingly, the original Agile Manifesto is quite good; but it is talking about highly competent, self-driven developers in competent organizations.
This was driven home to me a few years ago when I worked at a company with two distinct teams working right next to each other, one which did agile by the numbers and ours, which had stand ups and that's about it. I was on the latter and our stuff was always done on time with very few bugs. The other team was constantly late and there stuff very buggy. Since their cubicles were next to mine, I noted that they spent a huge amount of time on the bureaucracy of Agile. It also became obvious how artificial and staid Agile was--ironic given that it's supposed to be, well, agile. (A friend of mine worked for an agile company; it finally got so silly, the CEO called an end to it. The positive change in productivity and morale was stunning.)
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How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant 
Include which windows you where using.
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I'm old enought to remember Windows breaking during install, typically as disk[^] 2 for me.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I once got a BSOD during the installation of Windows Vista. So you don't have to go back far for that 
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Windows 7
After playing The Sims 3 for 2 Hours -> Blue Screen.
Works nearly every time 
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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HobbyProggy wrote: playing The Sims
Well there's your problem!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Well there's your problem!
I know, but sometimes i feel like playing it 
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Hahaha I can see that happening
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Are you sure it's not a safety thing, A friend of mine once had to go to casualty because of badly swelled arm after 4 hours straight of 'Age of Empires' 
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glennPattonPUB wrote: after 4 hours straight of 'Age of Empires'
I used to do that all the time! Your friend must be extremely delicate..
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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I'm sure this will come as a surprise to you, but I don't generally try to break Windows deliberately.
There are two reasons for this:
1) It takes too long to clean up and reinstall when you break it properly, and I have better things to do with my time.
2) Windows (pre Win7) was far, far too capable of breaking itself without any input from me.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Haha Yes that's not the idea to break it deliberately, but to let Win break itself.
And I've never heard of anyone saying that cleaning up or fixing windows was better than reinstalling
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