Devshop was recently notified that we’re in the running (top 100) for the Red Herring Top 50 Canada awards!
August 26, 2008
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Devshop is a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 50 Canada!
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Business
August 25, 2008
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Kicking the Top Bad Habits in Project Management
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Managing Software ProjectsI gave a talk to 30 local software developers last Wednesday, on the top risks in software projects and what to do about them.
We recorded the event and the video can be found here.
August 21, 2008
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Speaking Engagement in Ottawa – Success!
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Managing Software ProjectsThe Bad Habits of Project Management event yesterday was a smashing success. Thank-you to everyone who was a part of it. Local community member An-Min Kuo has a summary and a Flickr stream of the event.
August 19, 2008
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Devshop in ITWorld Canada
By Craig Fitzpatrick in BusinessITWorld Canada wrote a nice piece on Devshop’s approach to “accounting for human messiness” 
. It’s a good article, but for the record, I never said that people lie, cheat and are lazy .
August 18, 2008
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Speaking Engagement in Ottawa
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Local OttawaThis Wednesday, I’m giving a talk called, “Kicking the top bad habits of project management”. Over the years I’ve collected and distilled what I believe to be the top 5 factors that account for the lion’s share of software project woes… Most of them are applicable to projects other than software too, but my findings have been in the software field. I (obviously ) have some strong thoughts as to what to do about these factors as well.
The venue is the Ramius Corporation’s boardroom. This is part of a series of lunch & learn’s they have stared, called Periscope – a chance for people to look up from their daily grind and be exposed to something different, but related to their work.
Now, you’d think I’d have thought to post about this event here sooner, but (blush), I didn’t ’til just now. And I’m afraid we hit our 30 person capacity within a few days of putting the word out!
However, if there’s enough interest in Ottawa for a 2nd showing, I’d consider that. Just send me an email: craig (at) devshop.com.
August 6, 2008
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Devshop v2 is out!
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Devshop.comDevshop v2 went live a couple weeks ago. The upgrade went very smoothly – it took about 15 minutes. Gotta love hosted software.
This version was a major redesign of our user interface, based on our own learning of the past year and a lot of feedback from users. Navigation was simplified, and the risk metrics & reports that make Devshop special were made more obvious and clear.
I believe there is no other project management application out there that can touch it now, with respect to user interface. (But then again, I’m biased ). And this is a front we’re still improving over time.
We also added a few new features. Everyone with an account now has a personal profile that shows their team mates what they’re working on, status, which projects, things that are ahead/behind, etc… We added an “editor” for schedule items that lets you copy and paste, import and export, and do bulk edits of task information as well as work offline – it’s the “do everything” feature!
This version was a big “future proofing” exercise. We have a pretty clear idea of where we want the product to go and what major new advancements we’ll be introducing over time. We wanted to make sure that this user interface was scalable and flexible such that as we develop these new features, we can just drop them in-place without having to redesign the user experience again. This will allow us to have a consistent user experience as we develop and also let us get new features out to you faster.
If you haven’t seen it already, there’s a 6 minute guided tour video here: www.devshop.com
July 8, 2008
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Devshop on Blip.TV
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Devshop.comToday we created a channel on Blip.TV (http://devshop.blip.tv). Blip is great because it has all the built-in socially-goodness of any video sharing site, but it organizes things into channels, offers multiple viewing formats (QuickTime & Flash), RSS notifications and iTunes syndication.
We’ll be sticking up all our tutorial videos and any new commercials we shoot, so feel free to have a look and subscribe so you’ll know when new videos are available!
June 27, 2008
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Devshop v2 has hit public beta!
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Devshop.comCheck out the beta version of v2! We’ll be upgrading existing users over the next week or two…
Here’s the link to create an account: Create a beta account for v2
There’s also a 6 minute guided tour video here.
The theme for v2 was a dramatic step forward in user experience, as well as some new features like:
- import/export
- project quick start
- widgets for tasks (requirements, designs, notes, approval, etc.)
- performance enhancements
- personal profiles
- bulk item editor
and a pile of rough edges polished, based on user feedback over the year!
May 20, 2008
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At MESH this week…
By Craig Fitzpatrick in Devshop.comWednesday, May 21st and Thursday the 22nd, I’m at MESH 2008 in Toronto. I’ll be handing out cards that give people an invite to the Devshop v2 sneak peak!
Hope to see you there!
March 26, 2008
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