The second release of nexus went live today (build 127). It included the top features from our prioritized list published yesterday. This enabled the next use case from our first prioritized list of use cases – searching the articles. We also took this opportunity to refactor part of the user […]
Nexus – Next Round of Prioritization
The next build of nexus starts today as our agile project continues. Let us know what stuff you think is most important for this release, as part of our prioritization.
APR: Process Deviation?
Rolf presented a valid critique and some questions on our previous article announcing the launch of nexus. I started writing a long response, and realized it would work well as an article for analysis of our process over the last month. Here it is.
APR: Nexus Alpha Release Announcement
The alpha release of our site/product developed as an open agile project has just gone live! http://tynerblain.com/nexus/ is the home page. More stats and updates below.
APR: Information Architecture – Faceted Navigation
In our previous article in the series on the development of nexus, we discussed navigation and information architecture. We identified the challenge of filtering articles by category and by level of experience (beginner / expert), while also viewing the articles along a characteristic (most-viewed, highest-rated, etc). Between both url-creation and […]
APR: Information Architecture Challenge
We have an interesting information architecture challenge as part of our agile project. We have talked about browsing and searching articles organized both by category (product management, business analysis, etc) and by level of expertise (beginner, expert). We’re also rating and reviewing the articles, which introduces the ideas of “latest”, […]
APR: Naming Our Product
We’ve come up with a name for the site we’re creating as part of our agile project. Read on to see our rationale.
APR: Security – Added Constraint
Last night I got some great feedback from the Austin on Rails guys who helped with the deployment technology for our project. I also got a bit of an education about website security. Based on that conversation, I’m adding a new constraint to our project – that it be secure.
APR: Thanks to AustinOnRails Guys!
Thanks very much to the rock stars who helped us out tonight. Some of these rockstars are former coworkers of mine, and I believe are all active in austinonrails.org. – next meeting is Tuesday (see the website for more details). In alphabetical order – everyone chimed in to fix, coach […]