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DavidH
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![[*]](./images/grass/default_icon.gif) posted on 23 May 07 at 02:01 PM |
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Proposal: ..a pretty Website (ok professional...)
This might be a personal pet peeve of mine, but the Layout and appearance of the AA web-site are not very appealing to me. Instead of saying "Hey
this is about agile, which is a new, fairly successful thing..", it kind of looks to me like a very old not very well groomed web-site from the late
90s.
Image does dictate what people are willing to spend in times of interest and their time invested. I would appreciate a more "snazzy" very clean and
functional web-site.
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| posted on 23 May 07 at 07:38 PM |
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The state of the site is largely my fault. Fortunately, Ryan Marten has taken over as product owner for the site. A better look'n'feel is high on
his backlog.
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Joe
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| posted on 25 May 07 at 04:08 PM |
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I agree with David. I believe that the work on it has been largely volunteer, and who of us has time for spit and polish? Perhaps a few bucks spent
on someone's time for it would be a good use of the excess funds mentioned elsewhere.
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debhart
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| posted on 25 May 07 at 07:37 PM |
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I've been dissppointed in both the appearance and stability of the site (water under the bridge), and with missing features.
Considering we're all about collaboration, I find it odd that there is no central wiki for the agile community. Or other tools for collaboration.
Money might be well spent looking into enabling technologies which the AA could make available to members and their teams.
For example, something I've heard a few times lately: what's a good way to let a group vote online? I don't mean supporting distributed software
teams, exactly. But when agilists work together we often need this help. An example: a distributed group of practitioners having discussions about
some project they want to execute together - like organizing a conference, or writing a collaborative document, or building a product backlog.
This would change things for the Alliance: making tools available in real time (unless it's hosted elsewhere) would necessitate proper support, which
to me implies a salary. That could be ok, if it's offering a service that's used.
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DamonPoole
Damon Poole
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| posted on 27 May 07 at 08:39 AM |
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I agree with the idea to spend money on a professional designer. My first 5 or so times to the site via links I thought "oh, I ended up at this site
again. When am I going to find the real hub of Agile activity? I'll keep looking..."
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