I’m excited to announce that we have released OnTime 13 for OnDemand customers (and will be releasing it for OnPremises customers this Friday). It’s a tremendous upgrade that adds lots of new features and fine tunes others. Here are my favorite features: New Card View (Kanban/Scrum Board) My most favorite feature is the new “Card [...]
I think the Agile community needs to change how it measures success for Agile teams. The ways that we gather metrics and the information we seek out of those metrics is actually getting in the way of what’s most important, making working software. The way I see it, there’s two major problems: The observer effect: [...]
About 8 months ago, we were putting together a small library and lounge area in the Axosoft offices. We encountered a Costco deal that we couldn’t pass up: a super thin 60″ LCD HDTV for just $1,499 (I think the same TV is just $1,200 today). We placed it in a location that is highly [...]
Leveling the workload for your team or seeing someone’s allocation at a glance is important to any project manager. It should also be important to any team that’s looking to ship a product whether they are agile and self-organizing or use a more top-down traditional methodology. Unfortunately, many tools make leveling your team’s workload complicated, [...]
Scrum first appeared on our radar for a different reason than it shows up for most teams. Since we’re in the business of automating software project management methodologies, we learned about Scrum early on. At first, we viewed it as just another methodology that we wanted to make sure our software, OnTime Scrum (back then, [...]