Comments on: What a Tool http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/26/what-a-tool/ My own observations, reviews, and stuff I'm working on. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:33:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: James King http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/26/what-a-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-305 James King Tue, 28 Feb 2006 23:06:08 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/?p=169#comment-305 Robert, obviously Danube makers of ScrumWorks arent a non-for-profit, you cant get something for nothing and sometimes 'nothing' like JBoss and their licensing is worth a whole lot. Their licensing isnt weird imo, it makes sense. 60 day trial (like every other commerical software company in the world) followed on by a full perm license. I talk to one of their sales guys and he told me that the reason that they do this is to track who an 'active' vs. 'passive' custmer is...that makes sense to me and I appreciate their continued dev efforts... just my 2 cents. interested in hearing from others too~ James King Robert, obviously Danube makers of ScrumWorks arent a non-for-profit, you cant get something for nothing and sometimes 'nothing' like JBoss and their licensing is worth a whole lot.

Their licensing isnt weird imo, it makes sense. 60 day trial (like every other commerical software company in the world) followed on by a full perm license.

I talk to one of their sales guys and he told me that the reason that they do this is to track who an 'active' vs. 'passive' custmer is…that makes sense to me and I appreciate their continued dev efforts… just my 2 cents. interested in hearing from others too~

James King

]]> By: Robert http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/26/what-a-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Robert Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:08:52 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/?p=169#comment-299 I still haven't looked at ScrumWorks in detail (and probaby won't until I have to). One thing I will say, is I hate their weird licensing policy. It definitely feels like they're mining you for information so they can come and getcha later. If companies are going to give away something in hopes that it will build another area of their business / customer base (which I believe is a brilliant idea that works) I wish they would let go of the required registrations and mandatory phone number fields. There are certain people that may "buy" but will never be "sold to", and I'm one of them. I still haven't looked at ScrumWorks in detail (and probaby won't until I have to). One thing I will say, is I hate their weird licensing policy. It definitely feels like they're mining you for information so they can come and getcha later. If companies are going to give away something in hopes that it will build another area of their business / customer base (which I believe is a brilliant idea that works) I wish they would let go of the required registrations and mandatory phone number fields. There are certain people that may "buy" but will never be "sold to", and I'm one of them.

]]> By: James King http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/26/what-a-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-170 James King Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:15:45 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/?p=169#comment-170 I did check out ScrumWorks and it looks lightweight and sticks to scrum mgmt principles. just my 2 cents. I did check out ScrumWorks and it looks lightweight and sticks to scrum mgmt principles. just my 2 cents.

]]> By: Running as Root » Blog Archive » Diversification http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/2006/01/26/what-a-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Running as Root » Blog Archive » Diversification Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:12:43 +0000 http://www.runningasroot.com/blog/?p=169#comment-21 [...] The temptation seems to be to get into a feature war with everyone else. Once you’ve exhausted all of the useful features you start to include numerous niche features and one-off customer requests. Dump these onto a product sheet in no particular order and you look just as good, if not better than all of your competitors. A lot of these features aren’t likely to matter very much to the people that use the software, so you need to get some marketing materials, product advocates, consultants, etc to push your product to the people that make the decisions (and don’t actually use the product). For more on this you can see the ClearCase situation in another post. [...] [...] The temptation seems to be to get into a feature war with everyone else. Once you've exhausted all of the useful features you start to include numerous niche features and one-off customer requests. Dump these onto a product sheet in no particular order and you look just as good, if not better than all of your competitors. A lot of these features aren't likely to matter very much to the people that use the software, so you need to get some marketing materials, product advocates, consultants, etc to push your product to the people that make the decisions (and don't actually use the product). For more on this you can see the ClearCase situation in another post. [...]

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