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Changing Issue Trackers: Meeting & Understanding the Beast

12 Jun 2012

We recently switched issue trackers—and while a feat in and of itself—half the battle was getting our arms wrapped around the replacement… JIRA. When discussing the topic with one of our clients they remarked, “JIRA gives you sooooo much rope, it’s almost impossible not to hang yourself with it all!”

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Creating and Implementing D^5: Dialogue

13 Apr 2012

D^5 was built on Agile concepts. It’s centered around individuals and interactions: It’s centered around working software: It’s centered around customer collaboration: And it’s centered around responding (not reacting) to change.

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Creating and Implementing D^5: Deploy

12 Apr 2012

I think it’s important to point out at this stage that we used the D^5 process to create… the D^5 process. We used D^5 to sequence and organize this series of blog posts (look at the titles and order).

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Creating and Implementing D^5: Develop

11 Apr 2012

With questions answered, ideas sketched and everyone sick of me asking, “why?”—I moved to developing D^5.

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Creating and Implementing D^5: Design

10 Apr 2012

Interviews complete, and all of my dog-eared project management books referenced; I was ready to start designing D^5. I started where I often do—flow-charting.

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Creating and Implementing D^5: Discovery

5 Apr 2012

As my bio indicates, this software business was entirely new to me. I dabbled with web apps in the past, created a handful of websites, and managed — from a very, very high-level — a few web projects. But my experience is in the much more progressive-sequence world of construction, manufacturing, and marketing. These are industries with well-defined, industry standard work-flows.

Part of the draw to the web studio was the unknown.

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Creating and Implementing D^5: A Saga Begins

3 Apr 2012

Recently we deployed our new work process called D^5. It’s a five step program. Like most five step programs, its initiation started by admitting we had a problem.

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Planet Argon introduces the D^5 Work Process

3 Apr 2012

Read about our D^5 Process

Recently we deployed our new work process called D^5. It’s a five step program that begins with an idea and transforms it into a deployed web app. The story of how it was created can be found in a series of blog articles.

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