March 17, 2008 at 8:30 am
Agile development has arrived at my company. If you research this topic you'll see a tendency to either try and work without a DBA, or require a new approach by the DBA so changes can be made quickly. There are a number of impacts but the aspect of this I wanted to focus on is the face-to-face communiction aspect. The idea is that you have a relatively small number of people working physically side-by-side with daily physical meetings. Email is frowned upon to a certain degree as an inefficient mode of communication.
I'm wondering if economic events haven't made this impractical already. ( e.g. the price of gas ). Either everyone needs to move close to the office or you find an employer closer to where you currently live. I'm a big believer in telecommuting and living where I want so this face-to-face thing is a problem.
March 17, 2008 at 8:52 am
Indianrock (3/17/2008)
Agile development has arrived at my company. If you research this topic you'll see a tendency to either try and work without a DBA, or require a new approach by the DBA so changes can be made quickly. There are a number of impacts but the aspect of this I wanted to focus on is the face-to-face communiction aspect. The idea is that you have a relatively small number of people working physically side-by-side with daily physical meetings. Email is frowned upon to a certain degree as an inefficient mode of communication.I'm wondering if economic events haven't made this impractical already. ( e.g. the price of gas ). Either everyone needs to move close to the office or you find an employer closer to where you currently live. I'm a big believer in telecommuting and living where I want so this face-to-face thing is a problem.
All of Agile is a struggle for the DBA. What we've ultimately done is publish our best practices for the developers and informed them, that the process can go where it likes during development, but to get ANYTHING into production, we get a review and sign-off. This is 100% backed up by management. They actually listen to us and interact with us more often than not because of that.
Good luck. It's a struggle. To date, I haven't seen a "win" on the database side for doing this type of development, but the jury is still out and my mind is still (mostly) open.
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March 17, 2008 at 8:52 am
I think telecommuting is a great tool and should be used where appropriate. especially in reducing the cost of commuting.
My feeling is that Agile needs to adjust to handle this. I'd think either IM or perhaps some collaboration like a wiki or desktop sharing with a conference call, that can handle the short, quick meetings can work.
Email can work, but it has to have time deadlines that are respected. In other words, a daily, first thing reply needs to be enforced for this to work.
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