by Paul Klipp, 15 July 2009

Creattica is the premium design site, picking only the best examples of design to share. We are very proud that the planning poker cards designed by our own Mariusz Cieśla were featured.

Planning poker is the way of estimating project iterations in agile project management. The idea behind planning poker is simple. Individual stories are presented for estimation. After a period of discussion, each participant chooses from his own deck the numbered card that represents his estimate of how much work is involved in the story under discussion. All estimates are kept private until each participant has chosen a card. At that time, all estimates are revealed and discussion can begin again.

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by Paul Klipp, 14 July 2009

BrokenGlass was built for our internal use, but we'll shortly be releasing it as an open source project. BrokenGlass is a group password manager based on a simple concept. No one needs to know anything, until they do. When your boss catches you online at 2AM and you're the only one in the company awake and a client's server needs a reboot, what do you do? The sleeping SysAdmin has the data you need but that does you no good. With BrokenGlass, a team can store passwords or any other important data securely, and any employee with an account can access that data, but doing so requires a reason and triggers an email to notify the Admin to tell them who accessed what data and when. Hopefully, you'll never need it, but if it sounds like it might be handy, stay tuned for the release notification. It's the data equivalent of leaving a set of house keys with a neighbor.