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Just a quick post to point out that the trial version of Silver Catalyst has been released. You can get it from the download page. The trial version comes with a three team member license with no feature or time limits. I would also like to point out that the trial version is beta license compatible, so if you provided feedback during the beta period, your twenty team member beta license will work with this version.

Now that the beta period for Catalyst is complete, work is going at full speed on getting the trial version ready. The trial version will bring in some interesting changes. Finding out the RSS feed URL for a project has been made simpler. Also new is a help screen that allows you to check for updates, contact support via email, and view video tutorials. The home page has also undergone a makeover. However, the big news is that Catalyst has been renamed to Silver Catalyst.

You can get a sneak peek at the new look at the updated overview video.

The reason for the name change is so that it does not conflict with the open source catalyst web framework.

So Catalyst is now Silver Catalyst. Or will be when the trial version releases.

I was reading through some of the archives of the Communications of the ACM when I came across an article titled “Zeppelins and Jet Planes: A Metaphor for Modern Software Projects.” It’s on page 13 of the October 2001 issue of the CACM.

Continue reading ‘Zeppelins and Jet Planes’ »

David Anderson has an in depth explanation of the Kanban system that he has implemented for Corbis. This system implements various concepts from the Lean and Theory of Constraints schools. One of the interesting concepts is the feeding queue for each stage.

Continue reading ‘Kanban for software maintenance’ »

I’ve uploaded a new screencast that shows how you can use Catalyst to plan your iterations. Its the first in a series of “video documentation” that I’m recording, with more on the way. To view the screencasts, click here.