Visiting the Pairamids
by mphilip on July 29th, 2010 at 6:51 am
If I’ve heard it once at a retrospective, I’ve heard it a hundred times: We’re not switching pairs enough.
Though not pair switching (or even pairing, period) often has more underlying root causes, one way to encourage a team who simply has some discipline problems and to get a sense of how much team members are pairing and switching is to use a big, visible pairing chart.
Experience Report: Cross-Team Pairing
by oferrigni on July 6th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
Our project has a requirement that the client be installable on a Windows workstation running Java Runtime Edition 1.4. To provide this capability, the team opted to use a technology called IzPack. IzPack provides a portable installer infrastructure, built in Java. The installer framework provides the features necessary to do uninstalls, automated installation and desktop icons.
However, when IzPack upgraded from version 3.8 to 4.x, they dropped support for JRE 1.4. Without this feature, our installer was dead in the water. Various solutions were investigated. For example, Retroweaver is an open source project that attempts to instrument Java 1.5 class files for 1.4 compatibility. However, IzPack was making use of the Java 1.5 XML parsing libraries that are not in the 1.4 JRE. Further investigation suggested that the time cost for this approach was just too high for a same-day turnaround.
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