Pols Consulting

Chris talks about his work on applying real options on agile projects http://agiletoolkit.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=121123. He also talks about our work on Business Value.

I was explaining the ideas behind burndown charts today. Tim Mackinnon et al wrote a great paper for the Agile Development Conference that I wanted to show them. I really like their simple approach. Sadly the conference’s web site is not longer around.

Fortunately Tim has a copy on his web site
http://www.macta.f2s.com/Thoughts/planning.html

A more indepth look at burn down charts can be found on Alistair Cockburn’s site:
http://alistair.cockburn.us/index.php/Earned-value_and_burn_charts

I will have to see if I can recover the other great papers from this conference. It would be a real shame to loose them.

Alistair Cockburn’s blog is back. Yippie. It’s not a traditional blog, it’s actually using a wiki that he’s using as a blog! Still, it has lots of strange and interesting stuff.

http://alistair.cockburn.us/index.php/Blog

I spotted this on information aesthetics. It’s a disk drive that changes shape to show how insync a data backup is with it’s source. What a great idea.