In this case, I bet the Frenchified characters in the title of the last post tripped things up.

You might like to think that, but I bet they never work it out.

PS, I wanted to comment on your previous post but the followup link didn’t work and I couldn’t find the right starting conditions for the universe.

We are doing what can be purported to be agile, I hold scrum each morning, we have unit tests galore, we even have pages of spec plastered over the wall with names on them and big green texta ticks on the ones that are done-done.

Hasnt stopped the release schedule being pushed forward a month. Engineering, unfortunately, is the lowest on the totem pole too often. Also agree on the face to face. We have two developers on the team in the Bay Area, they are hard to manage simply because you cant plonk in a cube and say, “how is it going man”.

I always liked Alistair Cockburn answer, if there is too much process people will find a way around it and still deliver working code. So I tend to be pretty laisse faire.

PS, clever of your guys to lose the T20 early so they can have a nice holiday before the Ashes!

by not focussing too much on the game you missed a display of some fairly ordinary refereeing – fortnately it did not influence the game result too negatively…

Go Queenslander!!!!!!

This is how low the stocks of >Australia have sunk.

Ah, come on, you could play Shane Warne with both hands tied behind his back, Merv Hughes and Don Bradman’s ashes and still beat our mob at the moment. 51 all out?

I have very few books left after all my moving about. I am thinking of buying all the Discworld series again…

I found building a house was pretty good for losing weight. And driving around the US for two months, eating fast food, in winter, is not.