Subscribe to the blogPosted on December 22nd, 2006 in Tool, Catalyst by siddharta || 3 Comments
This post is an overview of Catalyst, the project management tool that I’m currently writing. The reason I’m putting all this online is to a) get feedback and b) to clarify my own thinking. I wrote a small story where I explained my vision for Catalyst. This post will follow on from that.
Posted on December 12th, 2006 in Methodology, Agile by siddharta || No Comment
A commonly misunderstood aspect of agile project management is the role of documentation in agile projects. The agile manifesto says:
Working software over comprehensive documentation
This is misunderstood to mean that agile projects do not have documentation. Discussions about agile often revolve around this point, and statements of the form “Agile says no documentation, so lets stop documenting and we’ll be agile” are heard once in a while. At the other end is the “Agile says no documentation, so it’s just ad-hoc coding” camp.
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Posted on December 11th, 2006 in Tool, Catalyst by siddharta || 1 Comment
Since returning to Chennai, I’ve been working on a project management tool for small, distributed and agile teams. To illustrate my vision for the product, here is a small story. Do you find any part of the story familiar? Are there any characters that you can relate to? Maybe some of this stuff happens in your project. Solving this kind of problem is what I’m setting out to do.
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