Back a few months ago I was looking for a way to keep notes about what I have been doing on the various projects I work on. An engineering notebook if you will. I opted for a paper notebook. You have probably seen it. It is always open on my desk in front of me.
When [...]
The importance of information radiators and informative workspace is unquestioned in Agile. Scrum and XP have enough visual indicators like whiteboards, flip charts, burndown charts, build status lamps etc. so that the information is highlighted as soon as it is gathered for easy consumption.
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Timebridge
Here is a review that introduced me.
A free service that helps you set up meetings between many people, finding times that are available for everyone. It’s very easy to use.
This was an interesting post from Martin Fowler.
Agile Vs. Lean
This is more background information and pointers to other people to read for more information. This is my first experience reading about Lean Manufacturing and figured I’d raise it up for others to see.
There is a new post on InfoQ about a software package that appears to try to deal with all the “spreadsheets, bug trackers, emails and homegrown time-tracking tools to manage Agile development projects.”
Here is the article.
This is a series of posts by Tim Ottinger at ObjectMentor. He describes his work at a client organization and talks about the way to manage stories and sprints.
His text is very clear and well thought out. I thought it was good enough to share. Let me know what you think.
Magic Funnel
Oftentimes during the design phase of a project, we’ll get the design concepts looking just right in Photoshop and Illustrator. Then you get to the “production” phase—that is, actually coding HTML and CSS to match the concepts. At this phase, some ask why is it that production HTML cannot look pixel identical to a design [...]
During a panel discussion at SDWest one of the presenters (Josh Kerievsky) mentioned ProjectCards as the PM tool he uses for Agile projects that were being done with non-co-located teams. Benefits they cited were:
Desktop app: no cludgey web based interface. nice performance and interface
Easy to manage backlog and sprints (drag/drop)
It looks like they [...]
Has anyone spent any time checking out project management software? After trying yet another personal solution in Excel I decided to look around again.
My criteria:
layout a schedule based on my estimated hours and assign people to the hours
simple. Don’t give me the world on a single screen (Basecamp baby, it just works)
while I’m out there, [...]
Matt C. posed this question:
Whenever I read [Steve McConnell's] Rapid Development book, I notice that their suggestions for workspaces and productivity environments are completely opposite of what we have here, with our open office space and frequent interruptions. Our setup contributes greatly to my enjoyment of working here, but it makes me want to [...]
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