Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Featured on AIR download page.

We've been getting an amazing amount of traffic over the past two days. Originally we thought it was due to being featured on the Adobe AIR Marketplace. But now we've learned that we're also on the AIR download page!

If you manually download AIR, you'll see the following page after your download starts.


See that right in the middle there?  

Thanks Adobe!

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Monday, February 25, 2008

New version released

The new version of AgileAgenda that takes advantage of AIR 1.0 is now available on the download page.

  • Now requires AIR 1.0 (Installing from the badge on the download page should automatically upgrade you)
  • New and improved auto-update feature.  You'll now be notified and have the option to automatically upgrade to future versions.
  • New self-service trial license key generation from the download page.
  • When you share a schedule online, the web-view has had some visual improvements.
  • The GANTT charts are a little prettier.
  • The BaseCamp upload process is a bit faster now.
  • Several bugs have been fixed.
  • Bug fixes to the AgileAgenda.com web service.  (If wish to use the AgileAgenda.com service, you must upgrade to the latest version)

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New AIR Version released

Depending on your machine configuration the install badge on the download page may not work for you.

Today (Feb 25th) Adobe released a new version of AIR. AgileAgenda won't be updated to work with this new version until this evening so we can run through our QA and release processes. Please check back later tonight or tomorrow morning.

Sign up for our mailing list for a notification of when the new version is available.

If you have previously installed the AIR Beta 3 runtime, the application should work just fine for you.

With this release we'll also be rolling out our trial subscription signup mechanism. So if you're using a beta version about to expire, no need to worry!

With the 1.0 AIR release we don't have any excuses to keep AgileAgenda in beta. We'll be quickly wrapping up the remaining bugs and releasing a 1.0 AgileAgenda release. That means the pre-order special will also be ending in the near future.

Thanks,
The AgileAgenda team

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Friday, February 8, 2008

New Version Posted

Version Label: 1.0Beta
Build Number: 19
Release date: Feb 8, 2008
Download from: http://www.agileagenda.com/download/

Release notes:
  • New: Schedule Snapshots
  • New: Basecamp Upload  (Try it out, tell us if it's useful, tell us how it should work if it's not!)
  • Improved: Future-proofed the file format to avoid incompatibilities in later versions.
  • Bug Fixes: Several small usability fixes
Schedule Snapshots
Since AgileAgenda does a good job of dynamically changing your schedule during the course of the project, one of the things it has been poor at in the past is understanding how the schedule is changing.  Besides keeping track of the projected end-date, it was hard to tell how you're doing.

Not anymore!  Now you can take a snapshot when viewing the schedule.  Later, when changes to the schedule have been made, you can load a snapshot and compare it to the current schedule.  See the example below.  A snapshot is shown as semi-transparent bars on the schedule below each task so you can easily see if a task is ahead or behind the snapshot date.


In that example the snapshot and current task line up for the very first task, but the snapshots for all the other tasks come before the current estimate for those tasks.  That lets you know something is going wrong and you're late.  As you can see, the milestones also get snapshots.

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Sunday, February 3, 2008

Project Status

It's been a big week of development for us.  We've fixed a bunch of bugs and improved a few of the outstanding usability problems.  We have Basecamp integration working to a point where we're ready to release after a bit more testing.

But the big news is the Dev Client has been completely revamped.  We're also renaming it the "Agile Tracker" since not only "Developers" might be using it, but anyone who wishes to track their time on AgileAgenda tasks.  

Using the AgileTracker you'll be able to subscribe to multiple schedules published to the AgileAgenda.com website.  Once you're subscribed, you'll be able to track your time across projects or tasks, view how much time on the project you've spent, and view an overall timesheet for time spent week to week.

Here's a couple screenshots for you to wet your appetite with.





There's also been some work to help future proof the file format so new versions of the software will still be able to read schedules made with older versions of the software.


As we near a real release more and more attention is being focused on only releasing quality, well tested, builds.  The changes mentioned above mean we have a huge chunk of code to test in the application, in the agile tracker, and in the server code.  We're shooting for a new beta build in about two weeks depending on how our internal testing goes.

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