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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Update: May 25, 2011. The link now downloads a compileable solution with tests that provide examples of how to make calls to the API.  We’re building an application that uses the Team Foundation Server 2010 API. I see a lot of people struggling with how to program against this API. And with good reason. We’ve […]

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 […]