Posted by C. G. Brown
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:21:00 GMT
Got a great software developer tool or product? We want to hear about it. We're currently looking to tell our customers about products that will be of value to them and make their lives easier, and are looking for vendors who are doing great things with software development and software quality to get in touch with us. We can be reached at sales [at] projectlocker.com for more information.
Whether you're a training company looking to offer educational services, a component vendor with libraries or controls that speed development, or a product vendor with an innovative IDE, build, or test tool, we're looking forward to hearing from you. That also goes for our current customers who are using ProjectLocker to help them build tools like these. Don't be shy. . . let's hear your story!
Posted by Damon Young
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:00:00 GMT
For the second time, Los Angeles will play host to Startup Weekend, courtesy of our friends at Scrum Club. Starting on a Friday night, software developers, designers, marketers & entrepreneurs gather together, pitch completely new product or company ideas, and then apply Agile & Scrum development practices to try to deliver on those pitches before the end of the weekend. As an original sponsor of Scrum Club, ProjectLocker is happy to donate its hosted software development services to all of the teams involved.
As of Saturday night, there are over 40 participants still engaged in active development on 7 separate applications. You can get up-to-date information from various people on the scene at the offices of BlankSpaces by following #swla on Twitter.
In the meantime, you can learn more about Startup Weekend in general and Scrum Club in particular by clicking on the logos here. We'll report back with the results of the weekend on Monday.
Posted by Damon Young
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:09:00 GMT
A bit of a public service announcement from our friends and partners at Scrum Club, an organization based in Los Angeles dedicated to providing training and actual hands-on experience in Scrum and Agile best practices.
Posted by Damon Young
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:48:00 GMT
3Back, LLC is one of our earliest partners as well as one of the most respected & sought-after firms for formal training in all aspects of Agile and Scrum development. If your team needs to build your Scrum competency from the ground up, find one of their classes nearest you on the widget below.
Posted by Damon Young
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:25:00 GMT
It's no secret: we like Agile Software Development here at ProjectLocker.
We're not dogmatic about any one particular methodology over another. As a company, we've always focused on supporting the most efficient ways software developers can save time, save money, and build better software. But if you look at the Agile Manifesto, I think you'll see some things that we might agree with:
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan"
With that in mind, especially given that supporting Agile teams is the raison d'êtrefor ProjectLocker Lite as well as our long-standing partnership with the Agile & Scrum experts at 3Back, we felt it was time to make it official:
ProjectLocker is now a corporate member of the Agile Alliance.
For all of our current users who are Agile practicioners: I'd encourage you to take a moment and see what resources the alliance can offer to enhance your current project.
And if you're an Agile practicioner or Alliance member who's not using ProjectLocker yet, I think you'll like what you see.
Posted by Damon Young
Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:08:00 GMT
While we're very big proponents of Subversion here at ProjectLocker, we also recognize that even the best tools and, consequently, the teams that use them can be crippled by the wrong development processes. With that in mind, here is an excellent article by Henrik Kniberg, a Certified Scrum Master with Crisp, a Stockholm-based Agile consulting firm. In it, he proposes a methodology to most effectively make use of your version control tool when applying Agile best practices in an environment with multiple & distinct teams working from common code base. Notice that he never mentions a specific version control tool, just a set of procedures and team protocols to help optimize the process. More details at the link below:
