Nigel on Agile

I am very pleased to announce the launch of Exia’s new site. Exia is an agile management tool that integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio for the ultimate combination of power and ease-of-use. Long ago I had a dream to create an agile management tool so fluid and powerful that it would make your agile projects […]

I’m excited to announce that The Exia Process Version 1 is now available at http://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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]