Shifting from Tasks to User Stories

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Helping teams to shift from a task-focus to writing user stories requires a different approach than simply introducing user stories as a new tool. You have to adapt the existing practices, by changing how teams think about and discuss the work they do. “Change from…” is different for people than […]

Juggling The Elements of An Iteration

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You expect analysis to happen before design, and both to happen before implementation and testing. But how much should these activities be staggered? When a project is being run with monthly releases, it might seem logical to have each group working on a different release. For example, the test team […]

Nexus Launches!

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

Nexus – Minor Updates

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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 […]

Nexus – Alpha Release 3 Goes Live

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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, […]

Nexus – Drag and Drop

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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.

Nexus – Implementation Update

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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.