The time I was talking to a former co-worker about when he left compared to when a third co-worker friend left. At one point our friend said, “Yeah I left after him”. Then we asked our friend when the 3rd co-worker left compared to him, and he said “Yeah he left before me.” And everybody nodded not noticing the duplicity. But Chad the Developer noticed and just started cracking up, and we were like, “what’s so funny?” It was funnier then and you had to be present.

Second was the time I went to JavaOne with Chad the Developer in 2007. We did some demo’s with Rodney Riven about JBI. It was great. In fact the highlight of the trip was the sweet ghetto hotels Josh hooked us up with. Then he forgot his wallet in the cab on the way to the airport. This had a severe impact on his weekend because he was going to a bachelors party with no drivers license. Oh how funny that was.

I am sure I am forgetting a ton. I will try and post more as I remember them.

It’s a white paper on our own agile transformation. Warning, it’s written in marketing-ese, but it gets the basic point across.

We do indeed.

Hunt, trying to be all things to all people is really, really bad imo. I don’t drink the 37Signals or Steve Jobs Kool-Aid but I do agree with them on their keeping things simple and focused. “You aren’t going to need it” (YAGNI) applies to product development, not just coding. Oh, and the ajax interfaces many of these products have are not that nice when compared to many of the “web 2.0″ apps that are out there these days.

Stan, thanks for linking to your comment and the original post. I agree with the need for tools across an “enterprise”, but I’m not impressed with what I’ve seen this far.

Travis, I was going to ban you for your last comment on my most excellent post about the definition of done but then you do something like this and…COMPLETELY REDEEM YOURSELF!

James, Good point. I would think these vendors do. Of course, I know certain companies (you may know of one) that use the same products (definitely enterprisey) they sell and integegrate for lots of their customers and guess what…those products still suck.

I am a QA engineer for one of said tool vendors. I posted my viewpoint regarding your concerns in comments to a similar blog post last week. Instead of repeating myself here, I’d like to direct you to my comment on that blog post: http://www.michaelnygard.com/blog/2008/08/agile_tool_vendors.html#comment-139

Regards, Stan