Nigel on Agile

Agile ruined Daniel Markham’s life. Read about it here. Because Daniel Markham is an experienced and perceptive Agile practitioner, it’s tempting to think the sky must be falling, and Agile is going to go the way of so many other trendy methodologies that have promised so much, and delivered so little. Markham’s article is witty [...]

In this blog we’ll look at how the Exia Process can help with project planning. I’m using the current Beta version of the Exia Process which is available for download from our web site at www.exia.net. By the way, we’re trying to design the Exia Process to be as fast and easy to use as [...]

This post describes a strategy for configuring a virtual machine image to use for conversion of source code from VSS to TFS. It uses a virtual machine image and developers that are ready to do a conversion launch an instance of the virtual machine with the migration prerequisites already installed. By simplifying and streamlining the process to a few steps [...]

I’ve seen a lot of attempts to convert Agile whiteboards like this into software… And, in my opinion, they’re all crap. Here’s an example: Sure it looks nice. And looking nice is what fools you into thinking that it does something useful, when in fact it doesn’t. It adds absolutely no value to the manual [...]

After 20 years of being frustrated with software lifecycle management tools, we’re finally doing something about it. The Exia Process is our answer. Over the next few years, we’ll find out if people like it, whether it’s useful, and most importantly, whether it helps people run software projects better. The Exia Process is a tool that [...]