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Customer Experience and Customer Expectations
I recently had a conversation with my cell phone carrier that went something like this:
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Multiprojecting
Johanna Rothman has written a nice article on the pitfalls of Multiprojecting. While others such as Gerald Weinberg, Jim Highsmith and Mary Poppendeick have correctly pointed out similar issues the primary thing that is missing from these discussion is why managers try to do this in the first place, and how project staff can “manage upwards” to correct or at least lessen the impact of this poor practice.
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When Tests Aren't Tests
There has been a great discussion on the XP and XP-Testing mailing lists about what “tests” are and how Exploratory Testing relates to XP/Agile development.
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Hosting Company with Customer Service
If any of you out there want a recommendation for a hosting company that wants to take care of you. Check out CyberGate Web Hosting. I had the opportunity to put them to the test last week and they came through with flying colors. No .NET hosting, it is all Redhat, but very inexpensive and great uptimes.
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NAnt Vault Tasks Updated
Jonathan Cogley asked and posted about needing an update to the NAnt Vault tasks. I can't say everything is perfect, but I have updated the code so it will compile. I don't have everything I need to fully test the changes (primarily updates to NAnt 0.8.4 and Vault 2.0), plus I had to remove the Label task since it isn't obvious how to do that with the new vault APIs.