Recently, a friend of mine tried to convince me to have a look at this Japanese, animated series (please do not ask me about its title…) in the same breath he told me about annoying sequences in these animes, where suddenly the main story line is interrupted by some nonsense episodes called fillers, in which … weiterlesen →
Author Archives: Jan Segers
Mingle – the feature hydra
After presenting a review of Atlassians JIRA with its Agile GreenHopper plugin, this article within our series regarding Scrum Tools will be about ThoughtWorks Studios Mingle. ThoughtWorks Studios are quite well-known for their Agile Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) portfolio, which comprises of an agile project management tool (Mingle), an agile release management tool (Go) and … weiterlesen →
Product Backlog and Taskboard Evaluation – JIRA
JIRA is everywhere. Everyone talks about it, everybody wants it, but not everybody can have it – why is that? In my first article, I announced that a series of articles will follow in which Scrum tools will be reviewed. This blog entry is the first of many in which I will evaluate currently available … weiterlesen →
Refreshing minds: It‘s time to put on those thumb screws …. ehm, Scrum Tools!
A survey published in 2010 by Forrester Research stated that approximately one third of the looked at companies would call their development method agile. 11% of this third stated that they use Scrum. 39% of those very same companies also stated that they would call their implementation mature. Reason enough for a vast rising majority … weiterlesen →