AgileZen for Solo Remote Development

Over the past few months I’ve been working on some remote projects as a solo developer. Knowing I wanted a light weight tracking tool I took some time to experiment with a few tools and I’ve recently come to appreciate the lightweight character of AgileZen.

Despite many warnings to use the simplest thing that could [...]

January 23rd, 2011 | Category: project management, scrum, software development | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Fallback Plan in Action: From Software Manager to Developer

Everyone relishes the confidence of a having a backup plan if everything falls apart. For myself as a manager it was knowing I could always go back to development if something unexpected came up. After 10 years as a development manager, I got the unfortunate call to follow my director to an unannounced meeting first [...]

January 17th, 2011 | Category: management, software development | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)