Finally decided to use Acunote for agile product management

Posted by chetan
on Thursday, July 10

In my last post I mentioned Mingle eats too much RAM thus slowing down the server. Another thing I would like to mention is that it has big learning curve; I better learn FLEX than learning MQL.

Acunote on other hand is simple (no story cards) solution to manage agile products. No learning curve and one gets started in less than a minute. Add stories (backlog), create sprint, create sprintlog and that's it.
It has a very good feature of tagging which can be used to tag stories to differentiate them as bugs, defects, tests, tasks, features, change requests, must haves, should haves etc.

On scale of 10 I would give

Acunote - 7
(no project velocity, no users other than current 5 can create defects)

Assembla - 5
(No relationship between Task-Defects, is on the lines of oDesk not agile)

Mingle - 6
(learning curve, complex)

Newage Agile Product Managers – what the **** !!!

Posted by chetan
on Sunday, June 15
These are those product managers who came along wailing waterfall model and now struggle to learn and follow agile model but get everything wrong

One of them I experienced lately did everything is not agile but loved when called agile. This is how he managed an agile project

1. Fuck with requirements document; let’s have all the user stories spanned across various emails
2. I am too lazy to update wiki either
3. Fuck sprints and bloody iterations; develop and deploy daily
4. ARRRRGG!! Why developers prepare a timeline?
5. I am too lazy to manage QA; developer can you do it!!?
6. Let’s not differentiate tasks, tickets, change requests