Nigel on Agile

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

9/21/2010: We posted a video to our site of this. Click here to view. Having just blogged about the failure of tool providers to provide good documentation tools, I thought I’d like to show a few screen shots of what we’re working on. This blog demonstrates an early prototype of the documentation functionality of the [...]

The vast majority of software development teams are dissatisfied with their development process. I believe 50% of the problems are traceable to bad documentation management tools. This blog discusses the state of documentation management tools for software projects, and suggests some concepts for improvement. 95% of software projects manage documentation with Microsoft Word, augmented sometimes [...]