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The list you’ve provided is a really good one, Thank You, Chris! I really appreaciate the effort, It has been really helpful, I found some Cool Collaboration tools in there which I wouldn’t have found otherwise.
I’ve found another one, which could be added to your list. TAROBY (http://www.taroby.org) is a Team Inbox or Collaboration tool for Enterprises, with capability of sharing the same Inbox with your team. Taroby has got Taskmanagement capabilities also, It puts an end to forwarding of mails to your team mates, as everyone in the team shares the same inbox, with the appropriate access rights. Some really Cool Features in there. Do Check it out!!- Sandy Gordon
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One that I completely forgot about is Planning Poker. It's an online collaborative tool for facilitating agile estimating of user stories.
You're welcome Hubert. And I agree, reward is a big part of this equation as well.
- Jason, you're right and I apologize. After I posted this, I read that last section again and thought it was weak too. Generally what we end up sacrificing in these cases is scope. But because we do have a prioritized backlog, most of what gets dropped is functionality that had little value to the customer. Usually, the funtionality we drop is part of that infamous 65% of features that rarely or ever get used. So, sorry for being short in the end there. Agile is not a magic cure....but it's better than the alternative.
- Hi Everyone,
I posted this interview on my personal blog and wanted to share some of the comments with the Agilistas group.
I had the opportunity to work with Ryan on the Agile 2007 Conference where he was instrumental in taking the greening of IT one step further into their conference planning practices. I strongly believe that technology and sustainability go hand-in-hand especially in green meeting practices. I recently posted a blog about technology's influence on the green meeting industry. http://blog.meetingstrategiesworldwide.com Thanks, Ryan, you are making a difference!
Monday, April 07, 2008 1:20:06 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)Great ideas on how agile practices can complement greening efforts. It will be interesting to follow the progress of both as development teams become more agile and socially responsible.
One other thing to note is that if we can influence more companies to move into the software as a service model, it will drastically reduce the amount of carbon and raw materials required to package and ship software.Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:08:12 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)wow..... It was a very good interview with Ryan really i enjoyed alot I'd like to offer my thanks to Ryan for all the help he's given us and for taking the time out of his busy schedule to share his insights.Xed-AxisHi,
Excellent article - I really appreciate your blog about Interview with Ryan Martens, CTO Rally Software Development. Its really a very good interview and very helpful for me, I am so much thankful of Ryan for all the help he's given us, I have bookmarked it for later viewing and forwarded it on.
Cheers. - Thanks Ryan. It was really interesting speaking with my Dad about this topic. It's kind of funny, I spent a good number of years of my childhood hanging around aircraft at Pan Am. I always knew what my Dad did for a living, but I never knew how he did it. This was a really great chance to connect on a level we never did before. My Dad loves to talk about his days at Pan Am, so I'll definitely pass your questions on to him and will provide more info on this. I love your questions and think digging deeper might yield more interesting conversations.
- Hmmm..that's what I would suspect. Without mentioning team member names, I'm pretty sure there's one guy on our team that's the glue and when teams work without him, they're going to go a bit slower. This is really just an experiment only because we'll probably have some real metrics based on individuals and mixed teams. It should be interesting to see the results. My hunch is exactly as you've pointed out, the whole IS probably greater than the sum of it's parts.
- Thanks Craig. Those are some great insights and I really appreciate you sharing your ideas on this subject. I especially like the beer and pizza every two weeks idea!!! Maybe a retrospective over beers...could get interesting!
- Thanks Bob. Excellent points. I think things more than 6 months out are really more strategic planning and should just be headlines and thoughts as you put it. And you're 100% correct, most of the time, by the time you get around to doing them, they've changed radically or just plain disappeared. Thanks for the comment.
Hi Chris,
Perhaps you would be interested in taking a look at Mikogo http://www.mikogo.com This is a freeware screen sharing tool where you can invite up to 10 people to view your screen actions live over the Web. Great collaboration tool and very easy to get started and use.
Take a look at our homepage and feel free to contact me if you would like further info.
Regards,
Andrew
The Mikogo Team