This article at CNet prompted a thoughts/questions.. "Blogs open doors for developers" http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982854.html?tag=fd_lede1_hed Thoughts.. 1....
... I like what the article says about opening up the flow of information about the project, and removing secrecy. I think this is a vital part of what makes...
... Yes. Plus, the weblog, or a wiki, does not implement communication. It implements /publication/ which is emphatically not the same thing. ... Yes. Strongly...
Although publication often results in no communication, I can atest that my company and many of our clients get a lot of communication done via wikis and...
... How do you ensure that everyone who needs the word gets the word? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. --...
Trust and e-mails. Everyone in my company, for example, is supposed to check the recent changes topic and look. Otherwise, we post an entry to the wiki and ...
... Trust is good. So is email. ... Of course, I see the advantage. Do you see the disadvantage? ... Yes, lots of people use them. They're good. They have that...
Yeah, there are disadvantages. Verbal communication on some things is just more energizing and clearer. I don't mean to imply that written communication is...
A principle advantage to using a weblog to support Scrum over a wiki to support Scrum is the time dimension. Weblogs are primarily organized by time. This...
Andrew Gilmartin
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Feb 2, 2003 2:52 pm
Andrew: I would appreciate your saying more about this. I have great experience with wikis and bulletin boards in supporting Scrum. We get some of the time...
... This is correct. I was thinking only about supporting Scrum in particular and not software development in general. Wikis and weblogs offer good ways of...
Andrew Gilmartin
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Feb 3, 2003 2:16 pm
... I forgot to mention that I am assuming a software development team with a tendency to write as much as talk. Over the last five years, however, I have ...
Andrew Gilmartin
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Feb 3, 2003 2:32 pm
I had experience using one of those project management sites with threaded discussions, issue tracking, and document management. We used it to coordinate a...
Hmm this is interesting, maybe I should think about creating some tools for this if there is enough requests, I will certainly do. What do you reckon, people,...
... What didn't work: First of all, the project management system which was chosen was a bad choice. It was clumsy to use and had a structure which made ...
I worked on a project that started in December 1994 and went through almost all of 1995. When I first got there the company admitted to having a "voice mail...
Mary's description of project collaboration and tracking environments was oh-too familiar. We have a practice of not providing the tools teams need (threaded...
Thanks for sharing that Mary, I can't really point to specific products but my first impression is there has got to be some products out there that would allow...
... teams ... Once upon a time, long long ago, I once asked a toy maker how he could use an online tool to facilitate communication between all parties...
Andrew Gilmartin
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Feb 13, 2003 2:09 pm
laughing I got so involved at looking in p-logs and blogs that I forgot that I am using sharepoint team services for a lot of my project and list tracking, and...
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