Raymond Lewallen

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Reader Poll: Which agile methodology have you adopted?

How many of you are using XP? If not, have you adopted any particular agile methodology into your team? Which one? If you have time, why? What do you like about XP, or the agile methods you use? What do you dislike?

Published Jun 12 2005, 08:38 PM by Raymond Lewallen

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Geoff Appleby said:

I've adopted a specific methodology, but it's the one that's talked about the least. It's called 'common sense'. :)

# June 12, 2005 9:20 PM

Jake Good said:

We're using our own hybrid... more like SCRUM. The best part about using an agile method is that you can shape it to be what you want, as long as your consistent... and open to change :)

# June 13, 2005 4:31 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Geoff, would be nice if that were the case everywhere :)

# June 13, 2005 5:38 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Jake,

That is certainly what I expect. I'm sure most agile shops have adopted some principles of a specific methodology, but have no doubt modified it for their own needs, as any agile methodology suggests.

# June 13, 2005 5:39 AM

Geoff Appleby said:

Wouldn't it just? I wish I could enforce it within my team! The amount of crap I have to fix up is unbelievable.

# June 13, 2005 5:58 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

LOL Geoff, let's hope your team doesn't read my blog ;)

# June 13, 2005 6:04 AM

Geoff Appleby said:

At most only two of them do, and they're not the problem :)

Hmm...that's an interesting point. The non blog readers are the ones that are more junior (that's my polite way of saying worse).

# June 13, 2005 6:10 AM

Jeremy Miller said:

We're a SCRUM/XP amalgam. I'd argue that every shop or team *should* tailor the specifics of their process. I think you follow any process more consistently if you've had a hand in making it. I've been on four agile projects now, and we did iteration planning a different way every time.

# June 13, 2005 7:44 AM

darrell said:

Scrum, TDD, and some Crystal Clear.

# June 13, 2005 12:22 PM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Crystal Clear... isn't that kool-aid for women? ;)

# June 13, 2005 12:30 PM

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About Raymond Lewallen

Working primarily in the public sector during his career, Raymond has designed and built several high profile enterprise level applications for all levels of the government. Raymond now works as a solutions architect for EMC. Raymond is an agile coach, Microsoft MVP C# and also president of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and Oklahoma Agile Developers Group. Raymond spends a lot of his time learning and teaching such things as Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Design, Design Patterns and Extreme Programming practices and principles, to name a few. Raymond is also an advocate of Alt.Net. Raymond is primarily a framework guy, so don't ask him anything about UI :)