By Peter Bell

Some More Thoughts on Unfuddled

Well, I've been playing with Unfuddled for a while now as I work on tasks, add notebooks for provisional user stories. I've got a few more things for my wishlist . . .

Firstly, I've got to repeat that I'd like some kind of asset management location for hosting images rather than just being able to attach a file to the end of a page. I'd also REALLY like an occasionally connected model with synchronization between local and remote databases so I could work even if their servers went down and then just have some kind of merge function if there were any problems with the default optimistic locking.

I'd also really like some kind of shared chat interface - something like Campfire (and before anyone tells me, I KNOW I could use Basecamp with Campfire, but I need the svn integration and time tracking - Basecamp doesn't quite meet my needs). That way you could have a chat and easily associate it to a ticket or milestone and have a record of how the decision was come to which would pop up if searched for.

I'd also like to see some kind of interface for handling questions. A substantial part of the software development process is asking questions of clients and some kind of process for handling this (SurveyMonkey integration? I have no idea!) would be nice. I don't know exactly what I'm looking for, but if someone doesn't show me it, no doubt I'll see what I can come up with!

Overall the software seems to be working well, but I still don't feel like this is the complete solution to the problem of managing website development projects.

Comments
Really great stuff. Unfuddle is really coming along, and as a young product i think it's maturing fast, and promises to be something (even more) special in the future. here's a big "yes please!" to the idea of check in messages interacting directly with tickets. that would be very nice. i also want more ticket navigation controls. it would be great to go back and forth through tickets without going back to the list view. i already suggested these with the feedback form, so sorry to be redundant. keep up the great work.

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http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/12/23/Trying-U...
http://unfuddle.com/blog/2007/3/31/unfuddled-final...
http://blogs.geekdojo.net/pdbartlett/archive/2006/...
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# Posted By Ashley | 4/21/08 10:38 AM
We've started using Unfuddle a few months ago and so far it's the best we've come across. We don't use it for SVN though. We need to keep the code in-house. And the size limit would be a problem anyway.

Still it's a pretty workable system. We also do some workarounds for an agile workflow.
# Posted By Laura | 4/22/08 10:11 PM
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