grant watson

Bookmarks

• Digital Foundations
  Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software.
  
• uTest For Crowdsourced Bug Testing
  uTest, the crowdsourcing QA startup that lets companies rely on external developers to help them identify bugs. The site offers customers a web based platform and tools for monitoring testing and QA cycles, which are available to them free of charge (they only pay for the testing completed by the crowdsourced community).
  
• Flowcharts
  A guide to understanding flow charts in flow chart form.
  
• Blog - Mail2Wiki
  Mail2Wiki is the result of seven years of frustration trying to set up collaboration wikis and seeing how people stop using them. Most of them at some point go back to email to send the important information that should be in the collaboration tools.
  
• Evolving from Scrum to LEAN
  They saw spending an afternoon predicting lengths of 1-4h tasks to be intensive, tiring, and frequently they found that in week 2 of the sprint their understanding of the tasks had changed. Their estimates weren't reliable, and the session is intense.