This would be the second 2 fatal flaws with Agile.

Developer's choice

1 and done mentality/management. Actually that is better than some of the Agile groups at equipment manufacturers, some of them demand their developers commit 3 completed stories per day.

Big ugly Ogre on steroids type bugs don't get fixed, they simply rot until the product/company goes away. Moral is high but product quality is low.

On my current project, counting by the calendar, various team members, myself included, have put in over 1 month tracking down a memory leak problem. Each of us have found various parts of it, but there was nothing Agile about it. This was old school grind it out trouble shooting which is not allowed under Agile. Valgrind was near useless because it slowed the target down enough to require nearly a full overnight run but with Valgrind and the app running you ran out of memory within a few hours.

We may well have found the last piece of it on Friday, but, it will take some time to be sure. Grinding through the code by hand is a chore, especially when the project has north of 1 million lines and is growing daily.

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Sorry for any discontinuity here. Started this reply many weeks ago, but have been heads down in the typical Agile catastrophe, no time to respond. Well, no time until now. Finally gave up and left the project.

No project started with Agile can ever be saved. Period!

Rather than continue this discussion here I'm going to dust off a title I hadn't scheduled for completion until 2019. I had done bits and pieces on it but this conversation has told me it is definitely time to finish and release it.

The T-Shirt was right.

http://www.zazzle.com/careful_or_youll_end_up_in_my_novel_t_shirt-235587332634897053

"The Phallus of Agile and Other Ruminations"  ISBN 978-0-9823580-9-2


On 10/04/2016 06:31 PM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote:
There isn't, because developer selects the bugs they're going to fix. There's
common procedure.

My procedure is: I'll fix everything that is assigned to me, the moment it's
assigned, if I can. If I couldn't within one day, I won't be able to until
there's more information posted.

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