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Comment on Agile software development and “value” by Agile software development: business value and human values | Ken H. Judy

Agile software development: business value and human values | Ken H. Judy — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:36:15 +0000

[...] I’ve written about agile software development as an ongoing, perhaps excruciatingly gradual, conversation on the definition of value. [...]

Comment on Don’t Justify Agile Based on Productivity by Ken

Ken — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:47:42 +0000

Okay, I can tell people are missing the point here. My point is not to avoid measurement. Clearly agile practices entail constant monitoring of progress. This is a feedback loop to the team so they can self manage.

What I do not believe is that you should not be using your early velocity metrics as proof of productivity gains to justify your agile adoption.

You will introduce all kinds of disfunction into your team if you encourage management to think of points as some literal measure of value.

Again, in an entirely agile organization where management “gets it” this is not an issue. But this is not the environment where one has to justify agile adoption in the first place.

Comment on Outlook -> Office Online -> [insert icalendar hack here] -> Google Calendar -> Google Sync -> Blackberry by Ken

Ken — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:52:06 +0000

That is the details.

Comment on Outlook -> Office Online -> [insert icalendar hack here] -> Google Calendar -> Google Sync -> Blackberry by Michael

Michael — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:46:08 +0000

So, just to confirm a detail – the script needs to be published on a page visible to the Google servers, correct? And that page’s URL is then provided to GCalendar, which then uses the script to pipe the data over, correcting as it goes?

Comment on Our Team Room by bob

bob — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:33:40 +0000

Looks like huge crowded walk-in to me.

Comment on Outlook -> Office Online -> [insert icalendar hack here] -> Google Calendar -> Google Sync -> Blackberry by Ken

Ken — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:07:53 +0000

The vcalendar file started failing validation again. Validator http://icalvalid.cloudapp.net/Default.aspx indicated the VERSION property was in the wrong place (not first). So I added this line to my php script to swap the PRODID and VERSION properties:

$output = preg_replace(“/BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\nPRODID:(.*)\r\nVERSION:(.*)\r\n/m”, “BEGIN:VCALENDAR\r\nVERSION:$2\r\nPRODID:$1\r\n”, $output);

I then added a line to remove the custom extension properties since to simplify the vcalendar file for future troubleshooting.
$output = preg_replace(“/^X-.*$\n/m”,”", $output);

Comment on Outlook -> Office Online -> [insert icalendar hack here] -> Google Calendar -> Google Sync -> Blackberry by Martin

Martin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:53:11 +0000

Thanks that makes things much clearer, and I see the logic. Now to the next thing. I guess you need to be able to publish your script to a public web site, so that Google can reach it.

I wonder if it would work on the iPhone as well? Giving the URL to the script instead of the ical. Need to test this as soon as I get home from work.

Great work finding this one out! I used the iCalendar Validator (on a downloaded *.ics file) and came to the conclusion that it was cluttered with erroneous line breaks.

Comment on Outlook -> Office Online -> [insert icalendar hack here] -> Google Calendar -> Google Sync -> Blackberry by Ken

Ken — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:43:32 +0000

Instead of subscribing to the link provided by office online, you subscribe to your php script. When your client tries to read the calendar via the script to your URL, the script requests the exchange published ics file, filters it, and returns it to your client. Like any other http request to a dynamic script.

Comment on Outlook -> Office Online -> [insert icalendar hack here] -> Google Calendar -> Google Sync -> Blackberry by Martin

Martin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:37:42 +0000

This is what I have been looking for. I only have one option to make my work calendar visible outside of our company firewall: *.ics through Office Online. However, I need an Outlook client to subscribe. Also need to verify through Windows Live ID. I would like to subscribe in Google Calendar and on my iPhone, but whatever is fishy with the feed prevents this. Now I see there is one potential solution, but I fail to understand whare and how the script would be executed. Is that a one-off, or do you somehow integrate it into Google Calendar subscriptions. I am not a php guy, so I have no clue, but would be so happy to make this work…

Comment on Outlook -> Office Online -> [insert icalendar hack here] -> Google Calendar -> Google Sync -> Blackberry by Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:26:36 +0000

You’re a genius! Just used this and was able to subscribe to my Outlook published calendar in Google Calendar. Thanks for taking the time to post this.