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The article that follows first appeared in the Tools For Agile newsletter.

It’s a new year and what better time than now to look back at all the happenings in the year gone by. 2008 will be remembered as the year when agile went mainstream. No longer are companies asking if agile is the right process for software development, instead the big question of the year was how to get started with agile.

However, this is a two edged sword as many companies are jumping onto the agile bangwagon without really understanding what agile is all about, and thereby setting themselves up for failure. At the same time, many agile experts have been innovating with variations to the core agile process to see if it can be improved. We saw the emergence of varieties like Lean-Agile and Kanban.

Keeping all this in mind, we’ve chosen six topics from the past year — two each for the beginner to agile, two for the intermediate and two for the agile expert. Continue reading ‘Agile Year In Review’ »

Paul Jackson over at the Six Ninjas Blog has written about his initial experiences with Silver Catalyst:

The founder of the company, Siddharta Govindaraj, has hit the nail on the head by developing a Scrum PM app which is simple to use, intuitive, informative and FUN!

Check out the whole review: Neat online Scrum management tool

Silver Catalyst has been reviewed by Praveen over at Bangaloreinc. Check it out: Silver Catalyst – Web Based Agile Scrum Tool For Agile Bookkeeping.

If you’ve signed up with Silver Catalyst, here is a quick start guide on how to use Silver Catalyst to manage your agile project.

Happy New Year to all readers of this blog.

We’ve been hard at work on Silver Catalyst, our Agile Project Management tool and today, we’re happy to announce the next step: Silver Catalyst Online.

We’ve listened to all your feedback and completely revamped Silver Catalyst from the bottom up. We’ve got a brand new interface and a ton of new features like drag and drop prioritisation of the backlog, the ability to split features into tasks and a new taskboard view.

This version of Silver Catalyst is currently in beta, and it is completely free to use during the beta period. If you would like to try out Silver Catalyst, then hurry and sign up before the beta closes.

For more information, check out the Silver Catalyst site.