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The second agile user group meetup is on Saturday, 1st Dec. The venue is Gaea Global, the same as last time. We had a nice meetup last time, the roundup of which you can read on Azagappan’s blog. As usual, the wiki has info on directions to the venue: http://chennaiagile.pbwiki.com/

If you are in Chennai and are interested in agile development, then do drop by.

Naresh Jain has an excellent post on the top agile myths. Thought agile software development meant no QA and no contracts? Or that agile teams are never distributed? Think again. Naresh lists eleven myths of agile software development including myths about process, tools, documentation, testing and a lot more. Check out the whole article here.

I’ve got quite a bit of feedback on Silver Catalyst, where it rocks and where it could improve. For instance, Prakash says he loves the easy install and user interface but says that he would like the ability to split user stories into tasks. That is one of the features coming up in version 2.0. There are a number of other features that are being planned for Silver Catalyst 2.0,  and I’ll be posting to this blog with more about Silver Catalyst 2.0 over the next few weeks.

Just like with version 1.0, as development progresses, pre-release versions will be made available. If you would like to get an invite to download the pre-release versions, head over to the home page and sign up for pre-release updates.

Also, since Silver Catalyst 2.0 is around the corner, any licenses purchased for the current version will be upgraded to Silver Catalyst 2.0 free of cost. In fact, since there will be a price revision after the major version release it probably makes sense to purchase licenses beforehand and then upgrade them.

For more news on Silver Catalyst 2.0, keep watching this blog and sign up for pre-release updates.