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    I have Viper installed on my car as an aftermarket. I'm able to interact with their API, which is fairly well documented by people who tinkered... and now when I unplug from the car it sends and...

    I have Viper installed on my car as an aftermarket. I'm able to interact with their API, which is fairly well documented by people who tinkered... and now when I unplug from the car it sends and HTTP GET twice, once of a session, another with a command... and the car locks (I have a 30 second delay).

    Its stuff like that. But what I know about is the HTTP stuff I did, and Viper. If you have Viper, I can comment more.

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    When plugged in to my car, start the music, turn off WiFi, set media volume. When unplugged from car, turn on WiFi, set media volume to 0. Ability to interact with my car's API. When I get to my...

    When plugged in to my car, start the music, turn off WiFi, set media volume.
    When unplugged from car, turn on WiFi, set media volume to 0.
    Ability to interact with my car's API.
    When I get to my hotel, open the app - because that's my room's key.
    Airline apps will turn off rotation and the screen will stay on (for the scan).

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    I took a stab at describing a JSON file.

    I took a stab at describing a JSON file.

  11. Comment on Thoughts on agile and scrum in ~comp

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    Agile and SCRUM can be useful, but I feel like my current employer understands agile from a buzzword standpoint. Minimum viable product, sprint, points... okay, cool, that's part of the idea....

    Agile and SCRUM can be useful, but I feel like my current employer understands agile from a buzzword standpoint. Minimum viable product, sprint, points... okay, cool, that's part of the idea.

    What's not part of the idea is deciding, before we have any kind of requirements to:
    Set a definite timeline
    Make that timeline part of a mission critical implementation
    Artificially require that implementation halt progress to ensure the results of the imposed idea are tested.
    Still not have requirements when all of that is put into place.

    I get it. I do. We need to test the thing, but there are fundamental rules to development that are being skirted. And while they've up-ended my priorities by taking this approach, they are pretending I'm still on my other tasks.

    No... no, I'm not. Because now I have this crowding out the other work. And I shouldn't have to tell them this. Looking at the requirements documents (big, therefore doesn't feel sprint-like) this isn't something I can do with a few hours here or there. It's obvious this is dominating my time.

    But I have to tell them.

    Basically, they've subverted agile to rationalize and formalize a complete lack of preparation - as a norm. That's not agile.

    But they are doing a damned fine job of making sure people think agile is dumber than a box of nails. And that, long term, could be an issue. Agile is a cultural thing - absent leadership, it's just a sequence of requirements (as others have noted).

    "Green field" development is different from "brown field" (existing) in that the overall structure of the thing is typically more well known and the timelines are better understood. New stuff... they get all kinds of fanciful with that. Before they know anything.

    And, in my book, that's not Agile. And what they're calling a minimum viable product FOR A MISSION CRITICAL fucntion... it's not right. As in, objectively wrong. But they decided all that upfront before they talked to the people who would do the work.

    So... Agile and SCRUM are tools. In the hands of a craftsman, they can be damned good. In the hands of someone who has no idea what they're doing, it's just another hammer to hit square pegs into round holes.

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    I'm sure he'll FILE that away in an structured list that accurately represents its structure.

    I'm sure he'll FILE that away in an structured list that accurately represents its structure.

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