The ProjectPipe.com Launch: A Festivus Miracle!
ProjectPipe.com is officially released as of late this afternoon. After more than three months of beta testing (thanks to all of you that have participated), we’re open for business.
We are offering both free and paid accounts. Check out the Sign Up Page for more information about the various account options that we provide.
Being that this is December 23rd, I hope that you are celebrating Festivus in your own special way. As all devotees of Seinfeld know, Festivus is known for its “Airing of Grievances”, followed by the “Feats of Strength”.
Given that we just launched our product today, I’d like to take a moment to lay out some of the “grievances” that led us to build ProjectPipe, and then talk about the “Feats of Strength” that one can perform with ProjectPipe to impress their friends.
The Airing of Grievances
- Most project management tools aren’t focused on the needs of small, distributed teams
- Even firms that have source code management systems often do not make them available to offsite team members
- If you keep issues, risks, and requirements in discrete MS Office documents, it’s really tough to establish traceability among line items
The Feats of Strength
- Classify your project data using Tags. Even Amazon is getting into tagging. Tags rock.
- Get everyone on the team working off a Subversion source code repository in minutes, even if they’re working from home without VPN access.
- Subscribe to new requirements via RSS
- Establish multi-hop traceability among use cases, requirements, architecture, issues, risks, etc. Then generate diagrams that show the big picture relationships.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to get the 6-foot aluminum pole out from the crawlspace.