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When you plan a release, agile user stories, or classic use cases are the best sized pieces to use in the planning - from the perspective of your customers. Each user story can be further decomposed into a set of specifications, and those into development tasks. Development tasks are the right sized unit to manage your work breakdown structure - communicating the release schedule internally with your development team.

Each Friday, we highlight some of our favorite articles, bundles or reviews that people have submitted to nexus. Check out this week’s Friday Favorites…

We’ve launched nexus today! We also fixed a big security hole and added the last of our early features.

Today we did a little refactoring of code, but otherwise took a quick break from development of nexus.

If you’ve ever had writer’s block, or struggled with a tough programming or representational problem, you know that one way to make progress is to walk away and then walk back. We did that today and reached a couple conclusions.

Nexus Help Document System Operational

Today we fixed a couple bugs, tweaked the UI a little, and implemented the functionality to support help documentation.

In the announcement last week about the third release of the nexus alpha, we mentioned that we would focus on minor improvements, refactoring, and content this week.

Here’s an update about what we did today - we pushed two updates to the site - one this morning, and one this evening.

Release 3 of nexus just went live!

• Our initial alpha release was on May 17th after one month of requirements, design, implementation and testing.
• The next release of nexus was on May 22nd after five days of implementation and minor tweaks to prioritization.
• This release of nexus took ten days, and included significant functionality - as much or more than the first release.

Read on to get a quick overview of the changes.

Implementation continues on nexus, and we’ve re-factored the way that items in a bundle are ordered, as mentioned in our earlier post. We talk a little about affordance, and show a couple screen shots.

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend (or a great weekend even if not a holiday where you are). The implementation is moving forward for the bundles. The pending release now allows me to add, delete, re-order and edit items within a given bundle. The re-ordering is not good - you have to manually change the “position” of each item. While functional, this isn’t good enough to release - so I will be refactoring this tomorrow.

This is a quick update on the implementation progress for the third release of nexus. For this release, we are focused on the creation and consumption of bundles of articles.