I’m excited to announce that The Exia Process Version 1 is now available at www.exiaprocess.com. Check out the release promo price of just $59.00. That’s 70% off the regular price of $219. I encourage you to download the trial, or take advantage of the special price and buy your license now. I’m the chief architect [...]
June 11, 2011
Web vs Desktop Apps – What Steve Jobs Didn’t Say
The idea that web apps will replace desktop apps refuses to go away. I hear it every week. It’s an idea that’s been around for nearly a decade now, and probably will be for another decade. That’s a shame, because it often leads software developers to make bad decisions that waste vast sums of money [...]
May 13, 2011
Challenges of Software Process Management and Suggestions for Improvements in Tools
This is a new blog publish of a research paper written by Exia in July 2009. The paper was formative in the development of our Exia Process tool. July 2009 This research paper considers the alarming failure rate of software projects and the failure of project management tools to stem the tide. We consider what [...]
April 16, 2011
Exia Process Document Library Feature Preview
A thousand attempts later, all efforts to effectively manage software project documentation have failed. Why is Exia trying yet again? This blog briefly previews the Document Library feature of the Exia Process, which is nearing readiness for release. The idea behind the project library is first that it can store any type of project documentation, [...]
April 15, 2011
Iteration Planning in the Exia Process
Here are some screenshots from the Iteration Planning feature in the Exia Process. We’ve tried to keep it a simple and direct as possible. Updates to these iterations are automatically reflected in your Team Foundation Server and vice versa. The key difference is that in TFS iterations have no start/end dates. Set the iteration start [...]
April 4, 2011
The Exia Process Project Library
This short blog demonstrates how the Project Library feature of The Exia Process can make it easier and more efficient to gather software project documentation. There are two key problems in software project documentation; how to expand on work item information in arbitrary but controlled ways, how to gather all that information together in a [...]
February 7, 2011
Should We Let Our Kids be Software Developers
On the Software Engineering Productivity forum, I noticed Michael Surkan write a provocative take on whether we should let our kids be software developers. He wrote: “This is tongue in cheek, but I think the question about what careers we would recommend our children go into is a valid one. Is software engineering still a [...]
January 7, 2012
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