Comments on: What Aspects of Agile Software Development are Working for Soloists?

By: How Much Are Stamps

How Much Are Stamps — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:51:27 +0000

I know it might sound strange, but thinking about things like what you did yesterday, what you want to accomplish today (maybe writing it down) and think about what’s blocking you/preventing you from doing what you need/want sometimes helps to reorganize your head a bit before you start working.

By: How Much Are Stamps

How Much Are Stamps — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:51:00 +0000

By: Guy Boertje

Guy Boertje — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:27:25 +0000

@Rob, thanks. I have been a solo dev on intranets where the pace is less frenetic and the stakeholders are in the next room so agile/cucumber/bdd was less important, Now I am trying to break into the commercial rails dev shop club in London where these skills are highly regarded and sought after, I would like to read more about this subject

By: Guy Boertje

Guy Boertje — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:27:00 +0000

By: Rob Bazinet

Rob Bazinet — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:17:06 +0000

What I have picked up as a subset has really come from what I learned from people on smaller agile teams and from James Shore's book, The Art of Agile Development. It is clear his book, and most agile instruction, is geared for teams but I picked out what I thought could be applied to a soloist or a team of a couple developers. I think picking and choosing what works is the best approach.

I hope this helps.

By: Rob Bazinet

Rob Bazinet — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:17:00 +0000

@Guy I have been working as a freelance/consultant for a good number of years and ran a small software development company before that time. The larger projects I have worked on used waterfall methods but claimed to be agile, they weren’t.
What I have picked up as a subset has really come from what I learned from people on smaller agile teams and from James Shore’s book, The Art of Agile Development. It is clear his book, and most agile instruction, is geared for teams but I picked out what I thought could be applied to a soloist or a team of a couple developers. I think picking and choosing what works is the best approach.
I hope this helps.

By: Guy Boertje

Guy Boertje — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:08:38 +0000

@Rob – how did you bootstrap into using your Agile subset? Work in a team before, pick up the habits and mindset then filter when going solo?

By: Guy Boertje

Guy Boertje — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:08:00 +0000

@Rob – how did you bootstrap into using your Agile subset? Work in a team before, pick up the habits and mindset then filter when going solo?

By: Rob Bazinet

Rob Bazinet — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:49:55 +0000

@Matias - great. I was hoping for more comments here, maybe I wasn't clear enough in my description or maybe there are very few soloists or small teams practicing Agile that it doesn't matter to them.

I think small teams can extract out a workable subset of Agile to be very useful. I am trying to define this and write more about it.

By: Rob Bazinet

Rob Bazinet — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:49:00 +0000

@Matias – great. I was hoping for more comments here, maybe I wasn’t clear enough in my description or maybe there are very few soloists or small teams practicing Agile that it doesn’t matter to them.
I think small teams can extract out a workable subset of Agile to be very useful. I am trying to define this and write more about it.