The Unknown
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.
—Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
To write something less stuffy, I recently spent an inordinate amount of time testing project management tools.
From a distance they all look the same – Gantt charts.
Up close the differences are striking. Every tool has one special feature they concentrate on, but most manage to ignore the basic usability aspects.
Some special features [...]
Agile methodologies do not eliminate conventional project management methodologies, but complement and change them.
Long term planning, dependency tracking, Gantt visualizations are perfectly rounded out with velocity tracking and frequent revisioning.
Your development team can concentrate on the immediate issues and still keep your project manager updated.
Your project manager has hard data early in [...]
I am typing this on a T-Mobile G1.
Hackers will love this phone. It is powerful, featureful, and very easy to develop for. It took me 5 minutes to write my first demo app and have it running on the phone while the debugging info was streaming into Eclipse.
The Android will be very successful. No wonder [...]
Would Agile work for your organization?