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If you’ve logged into Silver Catalyst recently, you may have noticed a new feature – Control Charts.

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This is the presentation I gave at Agile Bengaluru 2010 this past weekend. It describes the journey moving from ad-hoc development to an agile process and how we then adapted it to a more Kanban like process. The bad news is that you can’t really make out much with just the slides as the commentary is not there. The good news is that the session was recorded, so I’ll post it up once the recording is made available. In the meantime, here is the presentation.

It is now possible to split a feature in Silver Catalyst.

Why would you want to split a feature?

A couple of reasons

1. The feature was too big, so you want to move a few of the tasks into a separate feature
2. Not all of the tasks could be completed in a sprint, so you want to make a copy of the feature for rescheduling in the next iteration

Here is the step by step procedure for splitting a feature:

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We’ve just rolled out an update that enabled high-grade SSL security for all plans in Silver Catalyst. SSL technology encrypts all communication between the client and server so that your project data remains secure and cannot be intercepted during transmission. This is the same technology that is used by banks and popular ecommerce sites to protect transactions.

To take advantage of SSL security, you need to use the following link to access the workspace.

https://<subdomain>.toolsforagile.com

Note the highlighted part is https:// which stands for http secure. Use this and not the normal http://

When you login, you will get the following indicator in the address bar of the browser which indicates SSL security connection.

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We’ve added support for formatting comments in Silver Catalyst. You can now make text bold, italics, display lists and links. We’ve done this by implementing the Markdown syntax for comments. To apply formatting, simply type the formatting in the left column and it will be output as shown in the right column. For the full list of what all you can do, check the syntax reference.