GreenExpo
December 08, 2005 @ 09:42 AMMy favorite part of Ruby on Rails is that it drastically lowers the amount of work it requires to start a project, to the point where it feels like I’m throwing together little concept ideas every week. But I’m working on one now that I think is very interesting. It’s kind of - or will be - a combination of a bug tracker, wiki, blog, SVN browser, etc… I know, I know… not ANOTHER one… well, yeah.
My particular twist is to make the interface as simple as possible, and also I want to support some concepts used in Agile development that currently aren’t supposed well in other products. I haven’t come up with an exhaustive list yet of what that means. But, I did put together a proof-of-concept for one particular idea. I call the idea "Paperwall". It comes from a practice I learned a while ago for brainstorming software ideas. Essentially the team blurts out the actors of your software project while someone writes them down on post-it notes. You can end up with something like this:
Paperwall essentially allows you to do the same thing, except the information is saved and can be viewed or edited later. You’ll also be able to link bugs, blogs, and wiki posts to these "post-its", and vise versa. Anyway, I’m DEFINITEY open to suggestions, especially from people involved in agile development. I will have a live version of the concept up and running shortly. Here’s a screenshot: