ProjectLocker Blog: Tag scrum

Agilo for Equity Accounts

C. G. Brown — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:45:00 -0500

A number of our customers have requested access to Agile42's great product Agilo as an add-on to their ProjectLocker Trac. That day has arrived and we are now providing the option to create Agilo Trac projects included with all Equity and Enterprise accounts. With Agilo, you can manage your team using Agile/Scrum best practices, allowing your team to work more rapidly and communicate more effectively.

To use Agilo, Equity customers can simply go to Add Project, and select Agilo Trac as their issue manager type. If you'd like to turn an existing project into an Agilo project, just open a New Support Request in ProjectLocker Portal and our team will get your project converted as soon as possible. If you'd like to try Agilo and are on Seed, Angel, or Venture, you can upgrade by clicking the Upgrade Account link in Portal and following the instructions. Upgrades are also subject to the same 30-day money back guarantee, so if you aren't happy, we'll switch you back at no risk to you.

ProjectLocker is excited to continue to bring our customers the best-of-breed solutions for software development project management, and we hope that your teams find this product to be yet another way to take the tedium out of project management and to let you focus on what you do best — writing great software.

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Calling All Software Companies

C. G. Brown — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:21:00 -0500

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!

ProjectLocker proudly sponsors Startup Weekend LA 2

Damon Young — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:00:00 -0600

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.

a project management rant, courtesy of Scrum Club

Damon Young — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:09:00 -0600

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.

Sharpen your Scrum skills with training classes from our partners at 3Back

Damon Young — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:48:00 -0500

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.

ProjectLocker and 3Back are pleased to bring your these training events.

ProjectLocker joins the Agile Alliance

Damon Young — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:25:00 -0500

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'être for 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.

Source control best practices for teams with multiple projects

Damon Young — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:08:00 -0500

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:

"Version Control for Multiple Agile Teams"

Watch this blog for more posts in the future on best practices and other development resources we think will help you build better software.