Comfortably Scrum

Ditto!

2010-04-14T10:14:46.699-07:00

Ditto!

Thanks to you, Tommy, for your gracious help in pu...

2010-03-24T14:22:08.261-07:00

Thanks to you, Tommy, for your gracious help in putting together the reception. Very cool and helpful people in Nashville. All of us very much look forward to Agile2010 in your great city!

Phil Brock
Managing Director, Agile Alliance

Fuzzbone,
I could not agree more. I should have...

2010-02-09T21:16:54.814-08:00

Fuzzbone,
I could not agree more. I should have explicitly stated that since I beleive CI includes some mechanism for deploying through the environments that can be automated. Making your app able to be automatically deployed from day one is a huge help.

One thing I would add - that many companies don...

2010-02-09T08:38:27.126-08:00

One thing I would add - that many companies don't bother with. Automated deploy. Manual deployments often lead to issues where "It worked in QA" but not in production...

I'm looking forward to the new deployment tools in VS2010 - as this is one area that I feel Microsoft hasn't done a great job in this regards previously. In particular, TFS and "Deployment Projects" never really worked together...

Thanks, Tommy!

2009-12-28T12:27:07.835-08:00

Thanks, Tommy!

Thanks, Dave. The trademark symbol in the original...

2009-12-24T16:38:26.703-08:00

Thanks, Dave. The trademark symbol in the original file's name prevented it from being added. It's all good now!

hello... hapi blogging... have a nice day! just vi...

2009-12-05T15:30:26.846-08:00

hello... hapi blogging... have a nice day! just visiting here....

I did take a look at the content on the website, b...

2009-08-20T18:01:50.179-07:00

I did take a look at the content on the website, but unfortunately have not gotten a chance to try it. I plan to take a look though.

Thanks, Mack. It's good to know someone out th...

2009-08-11T17:15:48.935-07:00

Thanks, Mack. It's good to know someone out there is getting something out of it!

I appreciate the labor you have put in developing ...

2009-08-11T05:05:08.834-07:00

I appreciate the labor you have put in developing this blog. Nice and informative.

Interesting additions Tommy. Did you get the chanc...

2009-07-28T06:54:26.787-07:00

Interesting additions Tommy. Did you get the chance to test scrumedge (http://www.scrumedge.com)? I would like to get your thoughts about it because i recently started using it

Agilo for Scrum (http://www.agile42.com/cms/pages/...

2009-07-17T09:44:06.935-07:00

Agilo for Scrum (http://www.agile42.com/cms/pages/agilo/) is free and open source. Its worth to take a look.

Nice post Tommy. I like that you end up at The Emp...

2009-07-10T11:56:07.308-07:00

Nice post Tommy. I like that you end up at The Empty Vessel. The amount we know is imperceptible. Nevertheless we spend a lifetime filling the vessel.

Nice post ;)

I've been evaluating this ...

2009-06-20T03:48:26.378-07:00

Nice post ;)

I've been evaluating this solution, as far as we need a virtual task board to be shared among distributed teams (we use GreenHopper task board) and at the same time physically visible/available for a particular team for the daily work. This sharing can be hardly managed with a physical one :)

Well known pitfalls of distributed teams :D

WiiR seems to be definitely a good choice for the budget. But I can hardly imagine having the projector ON 10h/day and having the jalousie ON to keep acceptable darkness in the room.. as far as the team members have to be able to access/actualize the task board whenever necessary. Unfortunately, the alternative with huge FullHD resolution touch screens (that would solve the issue), is still quite expensive one.

However, WiiR in combination with a projector, must be a great/impressive solution for planning/review and other meetings, where you need to present something and astonish people :)

On the other hand, I can imagine the standard large non-touch FullHD LCD screen (for a fraction of price of touchie one) in combination with WiiR as a nice solution for a full time available virtual taskboard. What do you think about it? Have you seen this combination in action?

And, the "virtual typing" seems to be quite unpractical, compared to an ink pen/standard keyboard.. :) Do you consider it to be an acceptable solution? Or should one prepare for a serious suffering :)

That's looking pretty slick Tommy.

2009-06-19T06:16:31.456-07:00

That's looking pretty slick Tommy.

Felix, have you seen the burndown chart in
2009-06-18T04:39:47.594-07:00
Felix, have you seen the burndown chart in ScrumEdge? They have an interesting budget chart too

the nPlus1 ArcSummit is on Wednesday 6/10. I had o...

2009-06-08T09:34:30.273-07:00

the nPlus1 ArcSummit is on Wednesday 6/10. I had originally listed that as Friday. Sorry!

What about
2009-05-13T11:53:00.000-07:00
What about ScrumEdge? I've been using it for 2 sprints and i love it! I like that it doesn't take much time to set up my projects, backlog and sprints and the charts (burndown, budget and burn rate) are awesome.

Of course, I'm biased, but I wanted to say tha...

2009-05-12T15:19:00.000-07:00

Of course, I'm biased, but I wanted to say that ScrumWorks Pro is incredibly easy to use. We make it especially easy on developers with our web client, which is essentially a virtual version of the Scrummiest tool around:a task board. (SWP has a desktop client, too, but it's for more complex functions than updating tasks.) You can take a look here: http://www.danube.com/sw_flash/quick_start_demo/quick_start_demo.html

I'm in the place Jeremy described. I have a w...

2009-05-11T12:00:00.000-07:00

I'm in the place Jeremy described. I have a wall full of cards for my sprint task board and a page from a flip chart for my burndown. I like that and changing to a tool for sprint management would only hurt what we're trying to accomplish.

It's on the product backlog side that I feel I need some help. Excel got me to a certain point, but I have lots of BAs contributing backlog and folks at other sites that would be interested in seeing our development priorities. Excel's ease-of-use plus better multi-user support, reports/graphs (that won't break when someone cuts and pastes in the wrong part of the spreadsheet), on-line visibility, control of who can edit priorities and estimates, and light-weight integration with TFS would get me where I want to be.

ScrumNinja is another up-and-coming scrum tool. It...

2009-05-07T12:33:00.000-07:00

ScrumNinja is another up-and-coming scrum tool. It's great for small teams and a lot of people enjoy it's simplicity. The features are still being solidified via customer feedback, and we will definitely take your ideas into consideration. Thanks for this post!

.. and to join the queue of the left-outs - Norman...

2009-05-07T09:41:00.000-07:00

.. and to join the queue of the left-outs - Norman, can you add www.targetprocess.com to your? As I read your blog post, TargetProcess fits if not completely, but to a very large extent to all those characteristics of the ideal agile tool that you've covered.

Good blog. I have used version one. Its a good too...

2009-05-04T19:46:00.000-07:00

Good blog. I have used version one. Its a good tool with web2.0 features. But it requires some amount of training initially as the tool has got tonnes and tonnes of features. But my favourite is still the "Excel Sheet" :)

http://freeprojectmanagementsoftware.org/ has a gr...

2009-05-04T18:19:00.000-07:00

http://freeprojectmanagementsoftware.org/ has a great blog series on this one.

Agilebuddy is another tool that one should/can, co...

2009-05-04T16:40:00.000-07:00

Agilebuddy is another tool that one should/can, consider.

Comfortably Scrum

Ditto!

Thanks to you, Tommy, for your gracious help in pu...

Fuzzbone,I could not agree more. I should have...

One thing I would add - that many companies don...

Thanks, Tommy!

Thanks, Dave. The trademark symbol in the original...

hello... hapi blogging... have a nice day! just vi...

I did take a look at the content on the website, b...

Thanks, Mack. It's good to know someone out th...

I appreciate the labor you have put in developing ...

Interesting additions Tommy. Did you get the chanc...

Agilo for Scrum (http://www.agile42.com/cms/pages/...

Nice post Tommy. I like that you end up at The Emp...

Nice post ;)I've been evaluating this ...

That's looking pretty slick Tommy.

Felix, have you seen the burndown chart in 2009-06-18T04:39:47.594-07:00 Felix, have you seen the burndown chart in ScrumEdge? They have an interesting budget chart too

the nPlus1 ArcSummit is on Wednesday 6/10. I had o...

What about 2009-05-13T11:53:00.000-07:00 What about ScrumEdge? I've been using it for 2 sprints and i love it! I like that it doesn't take much time to set up my projects, backlog and sprints and the charts (burndown, budget and burn rate) are awesome.

Of course, I'm biased, but I wanted to say tha...

I'm in the place Jeremy described. I have a w...

ScrumNinja is another up-and-coming scrum tool. It...

.. and to join the queue of the left-outs - Norman...

Good blog. I have used version one. Its a good too...

http://freeprojectmanagementsoftware.org/ has a gr...

Agilebuddy is another tool that one should/can, co...

Fuzzbone,
I could not agree more. I should have...

Nice post ;)

I've been evaluating this ...

Felix, have you seen the burndown chart in
2009-06-18T04:39:47.594-07:00
Felix, have you seen the burndown chart in ScrumEdge? They have an interesting budget chart too

What about
2009-05-13T11:53:00.000-07:00
What about ScrumEdge? I've been using it for 2 sprints and i love it! I like that it doesn't take much time to set up my projects, backlog and sprints and the charts (burndown, budget and burn rate) are awesome.