With all the fuss and problems related to my long time biggest client choosing to outsource all development, I have attempted to get back on track with my original plans for my company.
This has meant spending a lot of hours thinking and evaluating.
I even picked up a book on eXtreme Programming, which was on my shelf of titles to read. XP is a topic I have not looked at for a very long time. I have observed a team doing SCRUM and this has proven quite interesting. I do however like many of the aspects of eXtreme Programming and reading up on XP has proven to be quite energizing.
For the last 4 projects done for my long time client, I have chosen to move the SCM of site, so I am using my own Subversion server. This has shown to be a very good move. I have two hosted Subversion solutions currently one with shelf cloud (version shelf) and another one with Atlassian (JIRA studio).
The first has been magnificent, nice GUI and it has just worked. Setting up and administering a Subversion server might not be the hardest, but I do simply not have the time. For Jira Studio I can only say that support has been magnificent and with the issue tracker (Jira), Wiki (Confluence), Code review (Crucible) and the Greenhopper plugin for project planning, I cannot be more satisfied.
I am currently migrating my old projects to Jira Studio, one at a time, when the need arises. So I will be terminating my account with shelf cloud, but I can only recommend them if Subversion hosting is what you are looking for, I needed more so I am moving on.
The outsourcing business has given me the opportunity, how crazy it might sound, to work in a team again, since one of the laid of people are subcontracting as well and another former employee has joined the ranks of freelance developers, so we are teaming up, looking at new offices and we are meeting regularly to align strategies and plans in order to stay afloat in an economy reacting to a global crisis.
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