Does a Good Agile Process Guarantee a Successful Project?

Recently there was a discussion on the Scrum Development user group debating the relationship between Agile process and the outcome of the project.

 

Most of the people seemed to agree that a good process is required to succeed however placing too much importance on just the process alone does not work.

 

Does implementing a good agile process ensure project success?

 

Super Power’s Technology

Last week I took a break from all technology related stuff to welcome our son to this world. It is an amazing experience to see the Super power’s technology at work to create a new life.

Our son ( we are still working on the name ) came to this world on 21st Feb’ 2008 (Thursday). He had to be admitted back to the hospital for treatment of Jaundice and was discharged after 2 days. He is recovering now at home. Wishing him a speedy recovery and welcome to this world!

Difference between “Done” and “Shippable”

There has been a lot of discussion on various agile forums and blogs about the difference between ‘Done’ and ‘Shippable’. It might sound like both mean the same, however discussions on the lists and various blogs suggest that these are still widely misunderstood, mis-used terms. Here is a roundup of recommendations about how to handle “Done.”

Read rest of this round up on my news post on InfoQ.

YamiPod: Using iPod with Ubuntu

If you have recently moved from Windows to Linux then one of the things possibly troubling you would be how to synchronize your iPod without the iTunes software.

Well the answer lies in

A relative newcomer to the iPod file management arena is YamiPod.

Download from the project’s website at www.yamipod.com.The file will appear on your disk as a tarball, so first extract the tarball, and then move the yam-linux folder, which is the product of that extraction, to your home folder.

Follow the steps to get started :

QuickTip: Transferring files between two Ubuntu systems

Easy way to transfer files between Ubuntu systems is by using scp and sftp. The SSH File Transfer Protocol or SFTP is a network protocol that provides file transfer and manipulation functionality over any reliable data stream. It is typically used with the SSH-2 protocol (TCP port 22) to provide secure file transfer, but is intended to be usable with other protocols as well.

STEP I

Make sure that the 2 systems can talk to each other

You will need the network address of both machines - I will call them A and B.

Ping test - using the IP address of B try to ping it from A: From machine A, open a terminal window and type ‘ping’ followed by the IP address of machine B, for example:

ping 192.168.0.1

You should get messages like ‘xxx bytes received from 192.168.0.1 in 8 ms’ - if you get errors, this is your first problem.

If you got no errors, then repeat from machine B, pinging machine A.

Once you are sure your basic networking is functioning correctly, you can go back to setting up your data transfer.