Friday, December 31, 2010

Better Alternativ to ScrumWorks

As I am working freelance on a project for a Norwegian consulting company, I came across this great tool. I had initially installed ScrumWorks Basic. This was the tool in which we used in various projects in my previous job. It's a great tool, but, it requires a server installation and a scrumworks.jnlp on the clients to make a remote connection to the server.
 
For this project I am working on now, I started out using ScrumWorks again. But, after having played with this other tool for an hour or so, I was sold!

Pivotaltracker is an online tool for 
  • creating user-stories/-cases
  • feature/bug/chore/release -tags for categorizing a story
  • labels for creating custom 'tags' for describing the story (like, design, dev, reasearch etc)
  • the UI is incredibly easy and intuitive to use 
Check out these videos to get an idea of how it's functions:


Another good to tutorial:


A testament from one of it's user:


Give it a try in your team, and let me know if it meets you needs or if anything is lacking.

Happy new year :)

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Kent Beck training Norwegian Developers in Norwegian Iterate

Old news  for some maybe, but still amazing!

The XP Guru provides assistance for the Norwegian developers in the company Iterate.

Any Java developer has at some time read or heard of this great man.

Friday, December 10, 2010

The next big DJ thing

Native instruments new integrated console for traktor.
Video demo
This is gonna be a killer. And better yet, you can still connect your old Tecnhics 1210 if you wanna go old school… Great! Smile