{"id":84,"date":"2007-06-15T19:38:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psyphi.net\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2010-01-26T19:43:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T19:43:05","slug":"sporting-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psyphi.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/sporting-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently started reading Agile Software Development with Scrum<\/a><\/em> by Schwaber and Beedle. It’s a great introduction to this branch of the Agile movement. It’s easy to read and contains practical advice and straight-forward explainations of the terms and processes involved with Scrum.\n<\/p>\n

Even more satisfying than the read itself was the realisation that I’ve been using a good number of the Scrum techniques in managing projects within my team for the last three years or so. I love the idea of a development team reaching a nirvana-like hyper-productive state though one of the examples of a four-person team at Quattro producing 1000 lines of C++ a week took me aback.<\/p>\n

In the middle of last month I moved to a new position at WTSI, Team Leader for the New Sequencing Pipeline development team (currently consisting of me). Since then I’ve been working on what I’ll now call a code sprint and last week I had my first product increment. The product is a smallish system for tracking runs on the new technology sequencing machines but is around 10,000 lines of Perl (excluding templates, CSS & tests) built on a light MVC framework I produced in the same time. A one man-team producing 3,333 loc in a week seems ultra-productive and I can’t believe it’s *purely* down to the fact that Perl is easier to write than C++.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m on a C++ course all next week, so I’ll soon be able to tell. Shame it’s not about Rails instead ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently started reading Agile Software Development with Scrum by Schwaber and Beedle. It’s a great introduction to this branch of the Agile movement. It’s easy to read and contains practical advice and straight-forward explainations of the terms and processes involved with Scrum. Even more satisfying than the read itself was the realisation that I’ve … Continue reading “Sporting Developments”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[118,21,119],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-agile","tag-perl","tag-scrum"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t