Podcast: | (Duration: 1:14:04 — 84.8MB)
Panel
- Charles Max Wood ( )
- Eric Davis ( )
- Evan Light ( )
- Jeff Schoolcraft ( )
Discussion
- Working in teams
- Client interaction
- Trying new techniques
- “Hurry up and wait”
- Freelance development is an experiment.
- Influence on/working parallel with development teams.
- “Agile is not really defined”
- Adaptation to change
- Pivotal Tracker
- Showing regular progress
- Use a staging server
- Be more agile than “Agile”
- “Picture of two people shaking hands”
- How much of the Agile process do you expose to the client?
- Try to adapt to the client’s process and tools.
- Point vs. Time Based Estimation
- Keep features under control
- Discovery Process
Picks
- Mr. Reader – iPad (Jeff)
- Instapaper (Eric)
- (Evan)
- (Eric)
- (Eric)
- (Eric)
- (Chuck)
- (Chuck)
- (Eric)
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I found this to be one of the most informative episodes so far, and I like the diversity and honesty of the panel when it comes to what they actually do with clients and personal projects.
I have found that a lot of my clients are resistant to Agile process at first, but quickly start to see the benefits, and often begin to apply it to other parts of their business. Once they know exactly what the work is, in the priority order, and defined to a reasonable scope and time, they breathe a sigh of relief, and are ready to get down to business. Just getting things organized in that way is often a huge win, and sets the stage for the rest of the practices that I use (iteration planning/retrospectives, TDD, CI, demo/sign-off, frequent deploys, etc).
Thanks for sharing!
I’m also interested in some of your go-to gems and libraries