By Georges Auberger

Make long term planning possible in an Agile environment

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Feb 1, 2010 7:30 am
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Agile development methods are well suited to plan and execute near term release cycle. For instance, the tools we developed and processes we’ve adopted help us plan and steer a release to completion with a good level of accuracy and repeatability. However, there are instances when the time horizon needs to be further out than [...]

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Dashboard for Agile project tracking

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jan 14, 2010 2:53 pm
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This is a following post to the series on Agile development at Songbird. As covered previously, we’ve created in-house tools to help with the planning and tracking of our release trains. The tool works off of Bugzilla and extracts meaningful information for project tracking. As it was originally meant to periodically generate an email status, [...]

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Beta testers wanted!

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jul 22, 2009 9:14 pm
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Our next Beta is available for download!
We’d like the help of the community to test and provide feedback on a couple of new features we’ve been working on:

USB Mass Storage Device Support (Windows only):
Songbird now supports file transfer and track sync for USB mass storage devices (with the addition of the MSC add-on).
Mozilla strings [...]

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Songbird 1.2 is here

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jun 18, 2009 9:18 am
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Songbird 1.2 is now available for download!
Songbird 1.2 focuses on improving library management and provides full integration with iTunes, in case you want to live in both worlds. We continue to listen to your feedback on Get Satisfaction, our blog and Bugzilla. Please let us know what’s important to you.
New Features
Automatically Organize Library Files
Songbird can [...]

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Songbird 1.2 Beta 2 is available for testing

By Georges Auberger Georges Auberger Jun 11, 2009 8:24 pm
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Songbird 1.2 Beta 2 is now available for download!
Here are the most noteworthy and complete features we’d like to call out in this Beta and get your feedback on:

2-way Sync with iTunes
If you’re using iTunes Music Store to purchase content, you can now automatically expose iTunes library tracks and playlists into Songbird. You can [...]

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