Grewal Says

Getting Carried Away Is Not Agile

2006-08-17T20:58:00.000-07:00

Today I made a big mistake for which I am quite embarrassed. Prior to kicking off the currently story that Vlad and I are working on, we had a meeting with the client in which it was pointed out that allocating Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) and other gas by products were not immediately required to a be allocated using priorities. However, Vlad was in late today and I was flying solo . I had some of the basic scenarios done. I thought I was on a "roll". Noted down my equivalence classes that needed to be covered and started writing tests for NGL allocation. Hit a roadblock (perhaps the same one the client may have thought of initially).

I got impatient as to how this scenario would be handled by the business people. I started looking for the client who was in meetings for the next couple of hours. I didn't want my motivation go down for this story so I was eagerly waiting for my moment to talk to the client about solving this problem. My eyes lit as I saw him coming down the hall. But at this point, one of the BAs mentioned "Harps, aren't we supposed to not worry about that scenario for now?"

Ofcourse, that's what Agile says too...but what happened to me? Why did I forget? - I was partnerless and I got carried away, that's what happened. If Vlad was with me, chances are he would have pointed that out to me on the onset and we would have channelled our resources somewhere else.

Anyhow, I think I am spoiled after working in pairs. But overall I think it is good. It frees the mind to worry about critical problems rather than trivial matters that may clog our mind but are very easily visible to your partner.

I am sure I will be in other embarrassing situations in future, but I am sure I will have good excuses :-)

Ciao!
H.

C2

2006-08-14T12:08:00.000-07:00

They say the choice between two goods is usually not that hard, but choice between two wrongs is very hard. The same hard choice lay in front of me in the form of Classic Coke and Diet Coke. Classic has 40 grams of refined sugar while Diet has Aspartame. I didn't have to make that choice. I picked C2. Drink C2, feel no guilt!!!

W

Vlad (Gumby) is back!!

2006-08-08T12:27:00.000-07:00

My good friend Vlad is back at work from a long vacation. A few hours later I asked him about the details of his vacation and asked him how he was feeling. To this he replied "It seems the vacation currency is very easy to spend and hard to acquire". I was impressed at these words of wisdom and to which I say - "Vlad, you are wise".

Cheers!
W

My First Message

2006-08-08T09:50:00.000-07:00

Howdy!

For the longest time I have been thinking of putting my thoughts on computer :-) But I am as lazy as it gets. Let's see if I can stay motivated to keep writing. I am amazed at how easy it was to setup. I did it while my test suite was running. Actually it is still running.