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Comment Re:Faster isn't better (Score 1) 160

This is me. I have an easier time reading the plays and movements of players in real life thanks to my video game days growing up. I don't really game anymore but I do spend almost as much time in the gym and playing sports now than I did playing games. My brain is still just as quick and now I'm in great shape and cut.

Comment Re:But...Agile teaches us... (Score 1) 400

It doesn't solve every problem but it can darn well replace the old waterfall development practice which is/was used for pretty much every project. If agile works for making AAAA games as well as a wide variety of projects involved in game development, HR systems, IT, finance, etc...why wouldn't it work for your projects?

Comment Re:But...Agile teaches us... (Score 1) 400

Why do I keep seeing the notion that agile speeds up coding? That is simply not true! All it does is releases certain features sooner so the client can approve of them instead of releasing everything at the end and having an "oh shit, he changed his mind" moment when it's too late. As for the documentation aspect, we had several tasks in our iterations to document code, use cases, etc. The team lead or project manager usually took care of obtaining the specs from the clients and writing the documentation for it.

Comment Re:But...Agile teaches us... (Score 1) 400

Well you are doing it wrong. In my experience (I worked in one of the top 3 video game companies in the world) it worked like it claims to do. A different team member was the scrum master every week, assured that the daily meetings were short and concise. We had our iteration planning done properly and our death mortem meetings at the end of each iteration to discuss improvements and fails. Once your team gets into the groove, your team velocity is calculable and improvable...maybe you guys were just lazy?

Comment Re:Children, children... (Score 0, Troll) 199

I own a Samsung Galaxy S1 and a HTC Windows Phone (bought around the same time 3 years ago give or take). To be fair my android phone is riddled with reboots, performance issues and such while my windows phone is as snappy as ever. I do use my android more every day but my WP7 is where I code on, develop apps and push it to its limits more.

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