Corporate Bureaucratic Agile

Glen B Alleman gives plenty of examples of the corporate bureaucratic idea of what agile is.  There is nothing wrong with attempting to identify risks and putting measures in place to reduce risks.  There is a problem with attempting to predict the future.  There is nothing in his content which reflects the values and principles of the manifesto.  Long term planning based on estimates of unknowns.

https://twitter.com/galleman/status/864330448477999105

https://twitter.com/galleman/status/864300464619180033

https://twitter.com/galleman/status/861233980686745600

For a guy with 3K+ followers . . . he doesn't receive a lot of interactivity . . . except when he is exemplifying his closed-mindedness with others.

Partial Features of .NET Core in Visual Studio 2017

There are some great things coming in Visual Studio 2017 . . . someday.  Some features have existed since 2013.  Some only partially.  With .NET Core being the future, these features need to be completed, especially since much of it mimics a nodeJS-esque process.

Live testing.  It looks as though it is working, the progress visual moves, but the tests aren't actually being executed; this is the most misleading UI/UX in a long time.  Some articles, and GitHub issue notes say "next release" but we're still waiting and wanting.

Browser Explorer.  Technically it works.  The lack of live reload is heartbreaking.  Gulp (which Microsoft recommends) and Grunt can watch for filesystem changes and execute tasks, such as browser refresh with connect, yet this IDE hasn't implemented it.

There are plenty of good reasons to switch.  Being on 15.3 without these features, and with many open issues, is a let down.  Here's to hoping that Microsoft can clean this up . . . and soon.