Comments on: Two great tastes: Agile development and distributed, declarative setup http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/02/13/two-great-tastes-agile-development-and-distributed-declarative-setup/ Bob Arnson on setup and servicing with WiX and MSI Sun, 24 Jul 2011 04:35:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joy of Setup :: Agile smarts http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/02/13/two-great-tastes-agile-development-and-distributed-declarative-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-5341 Joy of Setup :: Agile smarts Mon, 26 May 2008 19:34:41 +0000 http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/02/13/two-great-tastes-agile-development-and-distributed-declarative-setup/#comment-5341 [...] As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of agile development. Turns out it might be responsible not only for great software but enhanced developer brains: Brain research on rats suggests that voluntary pressure in the form of audacious goals taken on by high performance teams makes them produce more neuron stem cells, rewire the brain, and become smarter. Involuntary pressure, often seen on waterfall teams, reduces stem cell production and makes employees stupider. [...] [...] As I’ve mentioned before, I’m a big fan of agile development. Turns out it might be responsible not only for great software but enhanced developer brains: Brain research on rats suggests that voluntary pressure in the form of audacious goals taken on by high performance teams makes them produce more neuron stem cells, rewire the brain, and become smarter. Involuntary pressure, often seen on waterfall teams, reduces stem cell production and makes employees stupider. [...]

]]> By: Bob Arnson http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/02/13/two-great-tastes-agile-development-and-distributed-declarative-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Bob Arnson Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:13:19 +0000 http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/02/13/two-great-tastes-agile-development-and-distributed-declarative-setup/#comment-874 Blaine, Yep, exactly. Anything you postpone is something left to do before you can ship. Blaine,

Yep, exactly. Anything you postpone is something left to do before you can ship.

]]> By: Blaine Wheeler http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/02/13/two-great-tastes-agile-development-and-distributed-declarative-setup/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Blaine Wheeler Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:53:58 +0000 http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/02/13/two-great-tastes-agile-development-and-distributed-declarative-setup/#comment-873 Although we're just moving into Wix I absolutely agree that when your developer builds use the same structure as your final builds everything goes much much better at release time. I'm speaking from experience, we've been auto-building twice a day for developers and tester and had several extended periods where we shipped finals every two weeks over the last six years. Getting the build right during development makes delivery to the customer a piece of cake. Although we’re just moving into Wix I absolutely agree that when your developer builds use the same structure as your final builds everything goes much much better at release time.

I’m speaking from experience, we’ve been auto-building twice a day for developers and tester and had several extended periods where we shipped finals every two weeks over the last six years.

Getting the build right during development makes delivery to the customer a piece of cake.

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