Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first
by twic on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:30AM
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> They have their own sauce. I personally called it the Pivotal Process
What Pivotal does is fairly vanilla Extreme Programming. Indeed, the vanillaness of it is something of a selling point. In the London office, we would start projects by giving client PMs and programmers a copy of Extreme Programming Explained and telling them that was what we were going to do. It's easier to coax them into following a process if it's a documented industry-standard one rather than some special sauce.
Pivotal does have a few extra bells and whistles that fill in spaces around the XP core - "discovery and framing" [1] and "inception" [2] being two that spring to mind. And as you say, there is less emphasis on iterations as a unit of work - the planning meeting is weekly, but it feeds a continuous flow of development and delivery. But the daily pattern of work should be familiar to anyone who knows XP.
What Pivotal does is fairly vanilla Extreme Programming. Indeed, the vanillaness of it is something of a selling point. In the London office, we would start projects by giving client PMs and programmers a copy of Extreme Programming Explained and telling them that was what we were going to do. It's easier to coax them into following a process if it's a documented industry-standard one rather than some special sauce.
Pivotal does have a few extra bells and whistles that fill in spaces around the XP core - "discovery and framing" [1] and "inception" [2] being two that spring to mind. And as you say, there is less emphasis on iterations as a unit of work - the planning meeting is weekly, but it feeds a continuous flow of development and delivery. But the daily pattern of work should be familiar to anyone who knows XP.
[1] https://content.pivotal.io/blog/what-we-did-on-our-summer-in...
[2] https://www.infoq.com/articles/project-inception-meeting/