Sep 16 2008

Task Based Time Tracking

As a developer. it is very common to be required to report actual time spent working on a project or task. Sometimes the data is used for project planning, and sometimes your time is actually billed back to the customer. Over the last few years, I have used a variety of means of tracking time, some that made me cringe, and some that are almost a pleasure to use.

*** Read an updated post to learn more about my new project gootimer, a task based time reporting tool for Google Calendar ***

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Sep 8 2008

Does anyone do Agile Development correctly?

Throughout my career I’ve had the opportunity to work for a few shops that claimed to be ‘Agile’ but were really just using the term poorly and inflicting increasing amounts of stress on the developers by trying to manage a non-agile process/project in an agile manner. Continue reading