An active coderPhilip Nelson - code, ski, pontificateSoftware Factory du jour- June 13, 2006 Beat is one of the more enthusiastic Microsoft evangelists I have met. When I met him in Lillehammer in 2005, he was beating the SOA drum. Now he is beating the Software Factory drum. I think he really believes in what he is doing.I was pretty much ignorant about Software Factories until I sat through an Open Space session on the topic in Cortina with some other enthusiasts and I really learned a lot. The idea seems to make a lot of sense for people who routinely build similar but somewhat...http://xcskiwinn.org/community/blogs/panmanphil/archive/2006/06/12/4476.aspx fr-agilists- June 12, 2006 Ouch! and one month laterOuch!(follow the links)If you read through the posts and comments, the heart of the arguments come out. Agile methods and values are no longer the 'fair haired boys" of the industry. The early adopter phase is over and people reconciling the different views are coming to blows. I have to say that I experienced much of the zealotry of some agile evangelists while participating in the Yahoo TDD group. There is almost a religious zeal on the part of some of the...http://xcskiwinn.org/community/blogs/panmanphil/archive/2006/06/12/4472.aspx |