Story Points – Intent and Effectiveness

In some companies, "Story Points" have the following two purposes. A convoluted measure for customer billing, the customer won’t really know how much effort has been put up for the said amount of story points in the bill. A number by which the developer has no idea on how much task he is taking Essentially, … Read more

Professional Software Development Tools at Zero Cost

To run a professional software development team and have a clean development process requires the following minimal tools. Especially, small teams that write great software could do better if they have these tools when they develop software. That too at zero cost! Yes, totally "Zero" cost. IDEs Source Control Project Management Tools Communication Knowledge-base IDE … Read more