Comments on: The lady in the taxi – a parable of metrics http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/ embracing uncertainty Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ed Burns http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8032 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:08:59 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8032 Hi Dan,

I don’t have you post thoughtworks address. I’m coming to Jfokus and wanted to make sure to meet up with you there. Can you email it to me at my Sun address, which follows the usual Sun address patterns?

Thanks,

Ed

]]> By: Steve Ross-Talbot http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8031 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:51:15 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8031 Dan,

I’d like to get a conversation going on testable architecture. As you will see from my blog I am doing it day to day and have joined Savara to provide tools to assist. I would very much like to start a dialogue with you on how we can do it better and I think you would be a great person to help make it all happen.

The aim is to do “enough up front thinking” and to have that thinking testable or verifiable in some way.

If you can send me an email I’ll send you my contact details.

Cheers

Steve Ross-Talbot

]]> By: Steve Campbell http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8030 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:22:47 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8030 The story came across to me as a positive description of how Lean principles can be applied (limit WIP, gemba=camera in car, elevating constraints). Is this how you intended it?

]]> By: Jeff Anderson http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8029 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:08:16 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8029 you have just hit the classical outside governance body managing by measurement. What a great story,even the right metrics can cause the totally wrong actions.

]]> By: Joseph Wilk » Metrics for Plain Text Acceptance Tests http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8028 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:44:19 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8028 [...] The problem with measuring the quality of text is that it is far more subjective in than in code. So while we cannot be absolute in our assessment of quality we can try and codify smells that could indicate areas in the text that could be improved. This is pretty much true for all metrics, they are guidelines not absolutes (Dan Norths highlights the dangers of absolute metrics in the Parable of Metrics) [...]

]]> By: Dan North http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8027 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:52:33 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8027 Hey Andy!

Thanks! It was one of those stories that came out of a conversation, and then took about 10 minutes to blast it out as a story. (And of course about 4 hours of revising and tweaking!)

]]> By: Dan North http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8026 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:41 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8026 Hi Per.

Thanks for your kind words. I’m really glad you enjoyed the talk. Thanks for popping by to comment.

]]> By: Twitted by KevlinHenney http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8025 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:09:02 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8025 [...] This post was Twitted by KevlinHenney [...]

]]> By: Per Åkerberg http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8024 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:02:45 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8024 Thank you for the story!
I Listened to your talk during Oredev and this notion of “efficiency” vs. “effectiveness” is really refreshing, at least for me. You really have the power to make perfect sense. Even better – you have the power of making perfect sense whilst making people laugh!

Thank you!

]]> By: Andy Palmer http://dannorth.net/2009/11/12/the-lady-in-the-taxi-a-parable-of-metrics/#comment-8023 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:03:20 +0000 http://dannorth.net/?p=173#comment-8023 I liked this very much :-)

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