Comments on: To scrum or not to scrum http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/ Peter Maas's Weblog Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:26:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: peter http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-194 peter Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:26:00 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-194 I know a couple of profilers for Java applications which do tell how often a specific method is called but the profiling statistics ordinarily don't tell anything about code which wasn't actually executed... I think it should be possible to determine which code isn't used at all... maybe I should have look at it, might be interesting :) Still, since Java is executed in a virtual machine the application wouldn't probably even use 1% of the virtual machine... and I assume that the number for something like visual basic are quite similar. I know a couple of profilers for Java applications which do tell how often a specific method is called but the profiling statistics ordinarily don’t tell anything about code which wasn’t actually executed… I think it should be possible to determine which code isn’t used at all… maybe I should have look at it, might be interesting :)

Still, since Java is executed in a virtual machine the application wouldn’t probably even use 1% of the virtual machine… and I assume that the number for something like visual basic are quite similar.

]]> By: Frans Maas http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-193 Frans Maas Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:35:44 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-193 Kind-a-Captcha Please type the code below in the input field and click on Submit (characters can only be letters from A to F and digits from 0 to 9). captcha_img Kind-a-Captcha

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]]> By: Frans Maas http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-192 Frans Maas Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:35:21 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-192 Kind-a-Captcha Please type the code below in the input field and click on Submit (characters can only be letters from A to F and digits from 0 to 9). captcha_img This is what I saw two times now when entering real comments. Now give up. Kind-a-Captcha

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This is what I saw two times now when entering real comments. Now give up.

]]> By: Frans Maas http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-191 Frans Maas Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:34:27 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-191 Aha, so we are doing Scrum? Quite possible this happens in embedded software development. On percentage: I meant 5% of functionality, not so much number of bytes used. But even then I think the percentage is really low. Could I install a code profiler to tell? Aha, so we are doing Scrum?
Quite possible this happens in embedded software development.

On percentage: I meant 5% of functionality, not so much number of bytes used. But even then I think the percentage is really low. Could I install a code profiler to tell?

]]> By: Frans Maas http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-190 Frans Maas Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:29:58 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-190 Well, when I posted I was asked to input a number of characters which where not shown! Try again! Well, when I posted I was asked to input a number of characters which where not shown!

Try again!

]]> By: Frans Maas http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-189 Frans Maas Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:28:49 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-189 Blog broken Blog broken

]]> By: Frans Maas http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-188 Frans Maas Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:27:59 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-188 Everything is done somewhere in Philips. Vendors are very good at referencing. But admittedly I can't speak for the embedded (in-product) software activities, but just for the business information systems in use in the company. Everything is done somewhere in Philips. Vendors are very good at referencing.
But admittedly I can’t speak for the embedded (in-product) software activities, but just for the business information systems in use in the company.

]]> By: peter http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-183 peter Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:59:14 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-183 The presenter actually mentioned Philips as one of the bigger corporations already successfully implementing Scrum.... so basic insights in the methodology should be present somewhere ;) As for the percentage, I find it very hard to determine such statistics... since 'using' often only focuses on functional and visible elements: most plumbing, cross-functionality and dependencies are extremely difficult to take into account but are unmissable parts to operate the 5% you use! The presenter actually mentioned Philips as one of the bigger corporations already successfully implementing Scrum…. so basic insights in the methodology should be present somewhere ;)
As for the percentage, I find it very hard to determine such statistics… since ‘using’ often only focuses on functional and visible elements: most plumbing, cross-functionality and dependencies are extremely difficult to take into account but are unmissable parts to operate the 5% you use!

]]> By: Frans Maas http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-182 Frans Maas Fri, 24 Nov 2006 20:11:39 +0000 http://maas-frensch.com/peter/2006/11/17/to-scrum-or-not-to-scrum/#comment-182 We are now starting a world wide project where NO requirements are known beforehand. The IT team needs to prepare for maximum agility. SOA is assumed to be part of the solution. May be we need Scrum? And I use far less than 40% of the functions available on my PC. I would guess 5%. We are now starting a world wide project where NO requirements are known beforehand. The IT team needs to prepare for maximum agility. SOA is assumed to be part of the solution. May be we need Scrum?
And I use far less than 40% of the functions available on my PC. I would guess 5%.

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