Do All Members in an Agile Team Get Equal Rewards

In Agile all team members are equal. We ideally have a cross functional team. All team members are regarded as equal and everybody has an equal right to voice their opinions. There is no code ownership. Nobody is finger pointed at etc etc etc

Ah, so much equality that you start feeling that everyone should be paid an equal amount of Salary too. Well … naah!

It seems that the equality ends here. If it does not just imagine that you have just delivered a pretty successful Agile project. The client is happy and so is the team. You decide to reward the hard work of the team. You decide to distribute Bonus. WHAT????? …Bonus.

Instead you might just want to shoot yourself in the leg. Surprised, read on …

QuickTip: Setting Java Heap Size for Ant

Today once I started getting ‘Not enough memory’ while creating the build of a huge project using Ant.

The easy way to increase the heap size is

set ANT_OPTS=”-Xms512m -Xmx512m”

For me it worked without the quotes
set ANT_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m

For setting up the Java Heap size for other app servers and frameworks refer to this link.