- Posted by Ian Suttle on February 9, 2009
- Filed under General | Process
Programmers are paid to create, fix, and innovate. How you go about these tasks comes in two flavors - the quick and dirty method or doing it right. The typical reaction of a programmer is to strike down the quick and dirty route with eyeball laser beams because they want to have the time to do it right. Who can blame them? Nobody wants to write code they're not going to be proud of..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on November 15, 2008
- Filed under Agile | Process
Something we're looking at adding to our agile tool belt is estimating stories using story points. If you're not familiar with story points think of them as an estimation using a relative level of effort/complexity..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on August 9, 2008
- Filed under Agile | Process
Early on I recognized one piece of criteria critical to us succeeding in bringing Scrum to IGN - everyone had to buy in. This is a change for us and as has been drilled into our noggins for years, most people don't like change. The idea isn't to change for the sake of change of course, but to continually improve our team, processes, communication, and company. I'm sure most people can buy in to that one so we had to show how the change being proposed would accomplish these goals..
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- Posted by ian suttle on June 14, 2008
- Filed under Agile | Process | Unit Testing
Welcome to post number two in our ongoing journey to bring an effective agile development process to IGN Entertainment. Check out a few staple tools and practices I feel are essential to an effective agile development process..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on June 13, 2008
- Filed under Agile | Process
Here at IGN Entertainment we're moving into an agile development process. I'll be posting info on our experiences, tools, and techniques..
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- Posted by Ian Suttle on September 7, 2007
- Filed under General | Process
Software estimation is a wildly difficult process given the wrong approach. See how Ian Suttle manages web project estimations with confidence and success..
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