Archives 2012
30 November 2012
Author:
Stefano Rago
Since a few months a new major version of Trac has been released, namely Trac 1.0. For Agilo for Trac users, we thought it might be interesting to review this new version, especially because Agilo for Trac now officially supports it. What follows is a summary of what we think ...
Since a few months a new major version of Trac has been released, namely Trac 1.0.
For Agilo for Trac users, we thought it might be interesting to review this new version, especially because Agilo for Trac now officially supports it.
What follows is a summary of what we think are the most interesting changes in the official Trac 1.0 Release Notes page, which you can find here
http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/ReleaseNotes/1.0
with additional explanations, examples and comments regarding how Agilo exposes these new Trac functionalities.
Back up the database during a `trac-admin ...
30 November 2012
Author:
Thomas Bradford
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? is the classic causality dilemma where your head will explode if you think about it for too long. It has an analog in software development that we often don’t think about: Have you tested your tests?
"Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" is the classic causality dilemma where your head will explode if you think about it for too long. It has an analog in software development that we often don’t think about: "Have you tested your tests?" What about the tests of your tests, have you tested those? It seems silly, but it’s really something that one needs to think about when approaching the maintenance of a test suite and its associated framework or scaffolding.
Maybe most developers are doing it right. They keep their test scaffolding so minimalistic that there ...
29 November 2012
Author:
Stefano Rago
New Release of Agilo for Trac Today we're releasing a new version of Agilo for Trac Pro 1.3.9 (and the Agilo for Trac Open Source edition, 0.9.9). This version contains the following changes: Added support for Trac 1.0 Added support for Solaris in Agilo for Trac PRO Dropped support for ...
New Release of Agilo for Trac
Today we're releasing a new version of Agilo for Trac Pro 1.3.9 (and the Agilo for Trac Open Source edition, 0.9.9). This version contains the following changes:
- Added support for Trac 1.0
- Added support for Solaris in Agilo for Trac PRO
- Dropped support for Trac 0.11.x and Python 2.4.x
- Fixed bug causing the filter logic to fail under specific conditions when updating a ticket in the backlog view. Thanks to SteveRC for the help.
- Fixed bug causing emails to be sent even if nothing ...
30 October 2012
Author:
Thomas Bradford
Agilo for Scrum started off as a very simple concept. We wanted to create a very focused tool whose only purpose was to facilitate good Scrum practices. This remains our goal, though along the way we've battled some major performance problems in our client side implementation.
Agilo for Scrum started off as a very simple concept. We wanted to create a very focused tool whose only purpose was to facilitate good Scrum practices. This remains our goal, though along the way we've battled some major performance problems in our client side implementation.
For some time, we engaged in this battle by attempting to optimize our code against the framework that we chose to implement our client side UI -- Sproutcore (version 1.4). This worked in a way, because there are some simple things one can do to squeeze significantly better performance out of Sproutcore, for ...
26 October 2012
Author:
Stefano Rago
During the last year, I had the chance of participating in two quite radical activities of refactoring and rewriting, for two different web applications. Both activities were motivated by the need of improving performance, one was targeting a specific module while the other one was targeting the whole front-end code. ...
During the last year, I had the chance of participating in two quite radical activities of refactoring and rewriting, for two different web applications.
Both activities were motivated by the need of improving performance, one was targeting a specific module while the other one was targeting the whole front-end code.
Let's make it clear as soon as possible: for me, refactoring, means improving the code by simplifying it without changing its behavior - to make it both easier to read, and maintain - in which case most of the unit tests written around the code will keep on protecting you from ...
5 October 2012
Author:
Thomas Bradford
One of the most important things to understand about Agile methodologies is that there's no such thing as a "one size fits all" solution to product development. As such, the idea that an organization must stick to a set of practices no matter what, regardless of disruptive changes to its ...
One of the most important things to understand about Agile methodologies is that there's no such thing as a "one size fits all" solution to product development. As such, the idea that an organization must stick to a set of practices no matter what, regardless of disruptive changes to its environment, is a truly ridiculous notion.
If you're driving and suddenly find that you're approaching a cliff, you don't continue going straight simply because that's what has worked for you in the past. Similarly, if you're practicing Scrum, there may be occasions when you ...
13 September 2012
Author:
Thomas Bradford
Agilo Software's Thom Bradford will be presenting at this month's Berlin JavaScript Usergroup. Here is an abstract of the talk: Processing JSON data has become the norm for JavaScript application development, both on the Server and the Client sides. While it's easy enough to traverse a single Object instance using ...
Agilo Software's Thom Bradford will be presenting at this month's Berlin JavaScript Usergroup. Here is an abstract of the talk:
Processing JSON data has become the norm for JavaScript application development, both on the Server and the Client sides. While it's easy enough to traverse a single Object instance using JavaScript itself, the situation becomes increasingly tedious when many Objects are involved. Even when using the best Collection libraries for iterating over sets of Objects, the process might remain a mess of closures and comparisons.
Clearly there are situations where a general-purpose declarative query language might be ...
3 May 2012
Author:
Stefano Rago
New Release of Agilo for Trac Today we're releasing a new version of Agilo for Trac Pro 1.3.8 (and the Agilo for Trac Open Source edition, 0.9.8). This version contains the following changes: Manage 'task' tickets via xml-rpc. Both read and write operations are now supported (including changing ticket status, ...
New Release of Agilo for Trac
Today we're releasing a new version of Agilo for Trac Pro 1.3.8 (and the Agilo for Trac Open Source edition, 0.9.8). This version contains the following changes:
- Manage 'task' tickets via xml-rpc. Both read and write operations are now supported (including changing ticket status, attachments...), but currently the xml-rpc support is limited to tickets of type 'task'. Extended support like different ticket types and hierarchical information is planned for next versions. For this feature to work the Trac XML-RPC plugin (http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/XmlRpcPlugin) has to be installed ...
24 April 2012
Author:
Thomas Bradford
The recent release of Agilo for Scrum introduced a couple of great new features that we'd like to talk about. The first of these features is something that our users have been desiring since the very beginning, while the other is something that will make a Product Owner's life a ...
The recent release of Agilo for Scrum introduced a couple of great new features that we'd like to talk about. The first of these features is something that our users have been desiring since the very beginning, while the other is something that will make a Product Owner's life a little bit easier.
Backlog Searching
A product backlog can get rather large if you're not planning carefully. Heck, it can get rather large even if you are planning carefully, and despite our recent performance improvements, finding Stories in your backlog may still be a time consuming nightmare ...
13 April 2012
Author:
Franz Ivancsich
We are proud to present a new release of Agilo for Scrum! Thanks for your feedback, that we incorporated in the release. - If you also want to leave feedback and shape the product together with us, please visit our 5 questions survey here. Search throgh the Backlog Agilo ...
We are proud to present a new release of Agilo for Scrum!
Thanks for your feedback, that we incorporated in the release. - If you also want to leave feedback and shape the product together with us, please visit our 5 questions survey here.
Search through the Backlog
Agilo offers now a search function that allows you to find items in your backlog. - Just type anything in the "search" field and the backlog will only show items that match your search.
Sprint Report
As some of you told us, they would fancy an automated report after each Sprint. Just select "Print ...
7 March 2012
Author:
Stefano Rago
Today we're releasing a new version of Agilo for Trac Pro 1.3.7 (and the Agilo for Trac Open Source edition, 0.9.7).
New Release of Agilo for Trac (formerly Agilo for Scrum)
Today we're releasing a new version of Agilo for Trac Pro 1.3.7 (and the Agilo for Trac Open Source edition, 0.9.7). This contains the following changes:
- Story points burndown. The Agilo Dashboard now contains a new useful chart: the story points burndown. Start a new sprint and check it out!
- (PRO) Multiple columns support. We have removed the constraint of only two columns in the Whiteboard. Configuration instructions here: https://dev.agile42.com/wiki/TracIni#agilo-whiteboard-section. For upgrading users that were already using the feature ...
21 February 2012
Author:
Franz Ivancsich
Performance The Agilo for Scrum team is happy about the new level of performance when you groom the backlog or reorder it! We put a lot of effort into that for enhancing your experience. Import/ Export for the backlog Now, this is exciting for the PO! An csv import and ...
Performance
The Agilo for Scrum team is happy about the new level of performance when you groom the backlog or reorder it! We put a lot of effort into that for enhancing your experience.
Import/ Export for the backlog
Now, this is exciting for the PO! An csv import and export function! Please export it first, as you have to stick to the csv format that you see. Do not change the columns, but feel free to create the most stunning reports and plannings out of the export.
Improved Multiple Teams
We further improved the experience when you have to ...
12 January 2012
Author:
Stefano Rago
New Release of Agilo for Trac (formerly Agilo for Scrum) Today we're releasing a new version of Agilo for Trac Pro 1.3.6 (and the Agilo for Trac Open Source edition, 0.9.6). This contains the following changes: Performance improvement for backlog rendering Fetch ticket list via xml-rpc. Currently the xml-rpc support ...
New Release of Agilo for Trac (formerly Agilo for Scrum)
Today we're releasing a new version of Agilo for Trac Pro 1.3.6 (and the Agilo for Trac Open Source edition, 0.9.6). This contains the following changes:
- Performance improvement for backlog rendering
- Fetch ticket list via xml-rpc. Currently the xml-rpc support is limited to read-only operations and deletion. Extended support like ticket creation, update and hierarchical information is planned for next versions. For this feature to work the Trac XML-RPC plugin (http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/XmlRpcPlugin) has to be installed
- Fixed #1109: Cannot collapse ...
11 January 2012
Author:
Thomas Bradford
The Agilo for Scrum team are happy to announce the immediate availability of Multiple Team support.
Multiple Teams!
The Agilo for Scrum team are happy to announce the immediate availability of Multiple Team support. This plan allows a single instance of Agilo for Scrum to host multiple teams running sprints in parallel and drawing stories from a single product backlog.
Role Management
Along with Multiple Team support, a new Role Management interface has been deployed that allows an Administrator to easily add existing users to a team and to modify their role assignment on that team.
Performance
In this release, we have also made some first steps toward improving the overall performance of Agilo for Scrum ...
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