There is some discussion going on here about whether software tools work well for managing Agile processes or whether going manually with index cards and sticky notes works best.  Is your team practicing Agile?  If so, what works best for you?

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.

Jimmy has posted with sage advice on White Lists versus Black Lists and more from Day 4 at DevConnections 2009 in Las Vegas.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.

Jimmy does it again with Single Responsibility Principle and other .NET Best Practices.  Don’t miss the next in his Top 10 Takeaway series from #devconnections.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.

Jimmy has posted again with the Top 10 Takeaways from Day 2.  Keep it up Jimmy!

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.

Jimmy is at DevConnections this week and is promising to have a new blog post every day.  We will see how that works out! :)

Here is his first installment – Top 10 Takeaways for SharePoint.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.

Kevin has posted about Recursive Table Expressions on the team blog.  This is something that the team is using on some new product development when working with the Active Directory nested structure.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship enterprise password management product.

How many times do you have a data point in your application that is a date but not a datetime? For example:  birthdate, receiptdate, licensedate, etc.  Things can get really weird when doing date math if these “dates” have times on them – for example:  2.33333 years instead of 2.32.   We have even seen some strange things happen with timezones - 8/2/1955 00:00 becomes 8/2/1955 01:00 (still puzzled by this one although I have seen it a few times).

Kevin explores some solutions to this problem in our latest team blog post.

The one option I have seen several clients use on projects is to store the date as a varchar(8) in YYYYMMDD format.  While the ISO formatting does allow sorting, it just feels icky.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship web-based password management product.

David has a Strategy Pattern post on the Thycotic team blog in the expanding series of Design Pattern posts.  This one focuses on the Strategy Pattern and the flexibility it can bring to cover future implementations.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software services and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship web-based password management product.

Ben has a great new post on the team blog in our ad-hoc “design pattern” series.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship web password management product.

Pouya has posted about the dangers of illnesses when Pair Programming on our team blog.

Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret Server is our flagship web password management product.