Snow, in Santa Barbara
| January 24th, 2008
Every few years the snow levels in Santa Barbara drop low enough — 2,000 feet — that we wake up to snow on our local mountains. Here is the view from home today.
Category Archives: Intervals
Intervals Workflow — keeping track of meeting notes
| January 23rd, 2008
As a developer I work much better once I have a list of tasks in front of me. I’m also required to sit in many meetings, which conclude with me trying to distill action items from the various topics of discussion. I’ve tried notepads, which work well, but rely on me recalling conversations behind numerous, […]
Lightweight Project Management
| January 18th, 2008
From the very start, before any code was written, we decided Intervals would be a chance for us to refine our philosophy of lightweight project management; time and task tracking coupled with reporting and invoicing. We’d done the heavy lifting in the past, using microsoft project, wallpapering our office with Gantt charts, allocating resources; it […]
Mobile Intervals
| January 17th, 2008
As Michael and I walked back to the car after a late-afternoon client meeting, we got out our cellphones to check our email. It was the end of the day; neither of us needed to go back to work, except that we had timers running. Ideally, we’d have been able to update our timers from […]
Intervals Improvements – footer overhaul, saved reports, and more
| January 16th, 2008
Thank you for a great 2007. We saw Intervals grow and evolve; adding document support, invoicing and a ton of minor enhancements over the year. Usage continues to grow daily and Intervals is being used in 61 countries to manage over 40,000 tasks. 1. Footer and Timer OverhaulWe balanced out the footer to give the […]
Elements of Design
| January 16th, 2008
The Smiley Cat Web Design Blog has a amassed an impressive collection of web design elements, useful for comparing design treatments from a wide variety of web designers. They are collecting everything from blog comment form examples, to typography. The pricing tables page is notable because the they are relatively new design elements in the […]
Getting decisions into action as soon as possible
| January 15th, 2008
All 30 day trials of Intervals come with one hour of free training included. We have learned a lot during these trainings and questions regularly come up about how we use Intervals to manage our work at Pelago. For example, are there any process tips that might be helpful in addition to how to use […]
Developing in the new year
| January 15th, 2008
2008 is here and we’ve identified our usual resolutions goals; ride our bikes to work more often, telecommute whenever possible, use less, spend less, etc, et al. We know that resolutions often fail, so we need to be realistic with the promises we make to ourselves. The same applies to Intervals. We do not want […]