We’ve started using Jira and Confluence as a replacement for Xplanner (which we used for almost 2 years). Jira’s an extremely flexible issue-tracking software product which allows us to track Bugs, Projects, Sprints, and even Ticket queues (like internal email support) all in one place. We hope to be able to relate issues [...]
We’re engaging in a spike at IntelliContact this week. Some of the projects people are investigating (none of which are sure to be finished by the end of this week):
Mac/Yahoo Desktop Widget
Cleanup of old files in codebase
Consistent mail sending for messages other than broadcasts
Firefox/Thunderbird Extension for showing message stats
Refactoring message sending to show customers [...]
Scrum as much indicates the participation of the development team(s) as it does the involvement and commitment of the ‘everyone else’. Everyone must submit innovative controversial ideas, give honest feedback, and be willing to accept success.
Last weekend the company had a second Broadwick Day and discussed all sorts of desires for employee communication [...]
A beta usually sounds like a great idea, but with the difficulties of software development–hitting deadlines, feature drift, and push to release biding time can be challenging. Both agile development and patience paid off in this case. In the preparations for our 4.0 beta, we spent an entire sprint (28 days) dealing with [...]
