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Feature M&M's

Posted by Greg Unrein Aug 7, 2007

Once a month the entire company gets together (beer and snacks provided) for a brainstorming session that we call Blue Sky. This month we broke into several groups and brainstormed small but tasty features for Clearspace. Hmm... what else is small and tasty? M&M's of course. Hence, the idea of feature M&M's was born and one of them quickly made it into the product. Check it out in Clearspace 1.4 by visiting someone's profile and you'll see a list of other people who have similar profiles. Why brainstorm this topic? It's often the little features that make a product special. On the other hand, it can be pretty difficult to get enough attention for the individual features to make it into the roadmap. Each of the ideas has been written onto a piece of paper (in the appropriate shape of course) and then put into a special bowl.

 

 

Whenever an engineer has a little time they can grab an M&M (no cherry picking), then attach it to the M&M board and implement it. Here is a shot of the M&M board just after installation:

 

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Gnomedex-ilicious

Posted by Sam Lawrence Aug 7, 2007

This week Aaron Johnson, the big developer brain behind the blogging (and way more)  parts of Clearspace and I are headed up to Seattle for Gnomedex, "The Blogosphere's Conference." The conference bills itself as an interesting "crossroads between producers and observers, between users and developers."  I like the fact that everyone attends the same, single track and that they've thought about solving the annoying aspects of most technology conferences, like that there's never a place to plug your laptop into and that your wifi is spotty at best. I hope to hear some new ideas and meet some new people.

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