Better ways of Tracking Projects? RSS The answer?
July 23rd, 2005
As my development team grows and grows I'm curious at what point things get lost. Management has to keep track of more and more individual developers trying to keep up to date with them on project status, timelines, customer issues, etc. Wikis are great for managing knowledge, however its a login, then surf around type of system. I saw my managers inbox one day and couldn't believe how many emails he got in a day, how could he keep track of what my team is up to if he has to get through 2000 messages just to see my status. Why not help him out and aggregate all that information into one place and save him the email space.
What would help keep track of developers? An RSS subscription system perhaps. Picture this... you fire off an email to: rss@mycompany.com. A script on the email server parses the subject and body of the email and transforms that into an RSS item with TITLE and DESCRIPTION which gets added to your personal RSS feed. Your manager/project manager then subscribes to developers or other employees personal feeds, open a browser based RSS reader and get a quick update on who is doing what.
Not only could this be valuable to individuals but projects as well, subscribing to project RSS feeds internally to see what is actively being done on your project. How about for large companies like Yahoo, Google, etc where developers probably have no idea what each other is up to. How cool would it be to subscribe to developers RSS feeds in another city to see what other people are working on.
kinda like this mock up http://meetoc.com/temp/emp_rss/
What would help keep track of developers? An RSS subscription system perhaps. Picture this... you fire off an email to: rss@mycompany.com. A script on the email server parses the subject and body of the email and transforms that into an RSS item with TITLE and DESCRIPTION which gets added to your personal RSS feed. Your manager/project manager then subscribes to developers or other employees personal feeds, open a browser based RSS reader and get a quick update on who is doing what.
Not only could this be valuable to individuals but projects as well, subscribing to project RSS feeds internally to see what is actively being done on your project. How about for large companies like Yahoo, Google, etc where developers probably have no idea what each other is up to. How cool would it be to subscribe to developers RSS feeds in another city to see what other people are working on.
kinda like this mock up http://meetoc.com/temp/emp_rss/
