Comments on: Building a news product with agile practices: How we’re doing it

By: Brian Boyer

Brian Boyer — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:30:26 +0000

Scaling scope is precisely the problem our team was confronted with on Friday. We’ve got a fixed schedule and budget: five weeks and two developers.

So we’ve basically got no time at all. But we’ve got killer tools (almost certainly using Django, and likely Pinax http://pinaxproject.com/), and a fire in our bellies so I’m optimistic that we’ll make something neat.

By: Benjamin Melançon

Benjamin Melançon — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:05:04 +0000

Healthwise, best to worst: Olive oil, lard, butter, margarine.

OpenLibrary.org is awesome, and it works great for Amazon and ABEbooks and lots of ways to buy books. It’s only the library search that needs help, heh.

Reviewing Agaric’s notes on the Getting Real book, the main thing I think we should have been trying to bring clients along on is “fix time and budget, scale down scope as needed.”

I’ll be following your application of agile development with interest.

By: Brian Boyer

Brian Boyer — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:52:02 +0000

Ha ha - I’m pretty sure butter is still on top, and olive oil is nice, but if I had to select a fat, I’m more of a lard man.

Re: OpenLibrary…

I’ve decided that a partner link to Amazon is trouble. I don’t recommend books to make money, and I wouldn’t want anyone to think I did.

Too bad the site’s goofy. Got any alternate recommendations?

By: Benjamin Melançon

Benjamin Melançon — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:21:54 +0000

Wait, when did they decide margarine was safer than butter? Sticking with olive oil myself, just curious…

And thanks for the Agile resources links using OpenLibrary, that’s awesome… though the local library search seemed to take me to the wrong book, in the Netherlands…