| Dr. Dobb's Agile Newsletter 11/07
All of the studies that I've seen compare the effectiveness of various organizations at different CMMI levels, but never with non-CMMI organizations. This isn't to say that you can't take an Agile approach to CMMI, but it is rare in practice. Arguably the least bias would be seen with the results from people who have experience with both Agile and traditional development, which in this case was 336 respondents. This group reported success rates of 70.9 percent for Agile and 61.1 percent for traditional. So, based on this data, there appears to be a risk premium of 9.8 percent associated with traditional development. Also, notice that the success rates are lower than the average in both cases, potentially indicating that there's a risk premium for supporting both paradigms simultaneously, one of the costs of moving from traditional to more agile approaches.
BEAU TIE FOR SEXY 'GRIFT' GAL
Alleged identity-theft tart Jocelyn Kirsch's cheating extended into the bedroom, her former ex-boyfriend and best friend say. The 22-year-old busty brunette, who Philadelphia police say fleeced her neighbors to finance a jet-set lifestyle, even two-timed her alleged accomplice in the phony credit-card scheme, according to friends and the boyfriend she cheated on him with. In 2006, Kirsch met her soon-to-be alleged cohort: then-23-year-old Edward Anderton, a cocky 2005 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania who talked big and loved to show off his swimmer's physique. She started dating him at the same time she was already seeing a fellow Drexel University junior, a music major from Saratoga County. "Eddie was hotter. She liked how confident he was. [Her existing boyfriend] was shy and quiet.
Pulse: How we got a life!
Of course CEO is the dawg as the gung-ho guy who is always holding court and getting the hottest gos-info in town a mile ahead of everyone else, as he sips his big mug coffees in Java, bila sugar, lotsa honey, getting the sweetest, most salacious, tit-tit-llating info in town. If its going down, the CEO will be the first to know. The Smitta on the other side is like a paka, forever slinking off from one bash to a pub in some alley to a third high profile party all in one night, hanging out with gutter cats and exotic kitties, and then with total recall, doing the most amazing storoz. One never knows the place or the time the face of the Smitten will show up! In ironical role reversal, this week it is the Smitta who stuck all day to the desk, while the CEO is in some mysterious kejas/joints where even laptops don�t catch the Internet! As our ultimate boss Sir Woka said: "Mimi nilifikiri alisema anaenda ulaya, kumbe the liar is in north horr operating a Thuraya!" Heh heh.
Cole's ambition fired by feeling of potential unfulfilled
Arsenal fans have said they are planning to demonstrate against Alisher Usmanov at Saturday's game at home to Manchester United. The Russian has a more than 23% stake in the club and is expected to attend the match. "We are going to make our feelings clear that we don't really want him as any part of our club," said Mark Brindle, chairman of the Red Action group. Peter Ridsdale, the former Leeds United chairman, has apologised for his part in the decline at Elland Road. "We messed up. We gambled. We won. Then we lost. Big-time," he writes in his book, United We Fall. "For that nightmare I hold up my hands and say sorry. I can't wind the clock back and handle things differently. If I could, I'd be more stringent and cautious." .
Police take aim at holiday crime
The holiday season means family gatherings, food, shopping _ and crime. The season's hectic pace and ample opportunities to steal merchandise are part of the reason, police say. Police often see more thefts from cars and purse-snatchings in the holiday season. To combat that, the Shoal Creek Patrol Division in the Northland today will launch Operation: Safe Holiday. The effort is designed to reduce crime along the Missouri 152 and Interstate 35 corridor – considered one of the busiest shopping districts in the city, police say. "We have a lot of crimes of opportunity up there," said Maj. Jan Zimmerman, commander of the Shoal Creek Patrol Division, which encompasses the Missouri 152 corridor. "We are just trying to encourage people to be smarter, pay attention to their surroundings and not become an easy crime victim." Beginning today, officers will fan out through the retail corridor and distribute decorative index cards with crime prevention and safety tips.
News Minute: Colorado shootings...Mall shooting funerals...Nasty storm
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Authorities in Colorado are still looking for links between two deadly shooting sprees at Christian religious centers yesterday. This morning they searched a suburban Denver home. Authorities have said they believe the attacks are related, but have not yet found anything that supports the theory. l0721 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Hundreds in Nebraska are grieving together at funerals today for 5 of the eight people fatally shot last week in a mall department store in Omaha. Funerals for three other victims are scheduled for tomorrow. a0611 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A judge has sentenced Michael Vick to 23 months in prison for running what the judge called a "cruel and inhumane" dogfighting ring. In court today, Vick apologized to the court and his family, but the judge also said Vick need to apologize to those who looked up to him.
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