Technoetic

I will be maintaining a list of links to commercial and open source agile project management tools. If you know of tools that I have not included, please send me a note and I’ll add it. I maintain these links on del.icio.us and you subscribe to them as an RSS feed if you’d like. The […]

I’m asking the question specifically in the context of software development although it’s useful to consider the meaning of the word in common usage. The dictionary definition of agile is “characterized by quickness, lightness, and ease of movement; nimble” and doesn’t include an important aspect: quality. A quality result achieves the goal of the […]

“You should expect to see developers putting on headsets when they start up their development tools - to listen and respond to the voice over IP (VOIP) chatter from peers and delegates spread across the world. Development is now, by default, a global activity (and, as a sidebar, has begun looking like a massively multi-player […]

For most of us, our brains do an excellent job of shaping a somewhat consistent view of the world from the constant flood of sensory data. We seldom scrutinize this extremely creative process of “world creation” and instead take it for granted. How can be we be certain of what we know and believe?
The problem […]

“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.” ~ E.B. White
So you are considering starting your own open source software project? If you are doing this project on your spare time, there will be several time […]