Velocity can be used to measure the output of any team…

var dzone_style=”2″;Velocity is a measure of how much work a team can complete in a set period of time.  It is measured in Story Points and although it was originally created for use in Software Development scenarios, it can be used in just about every type of team scenario.
Velocity can be measured assuming you have… :

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Ubiquity

var dzone_style=”2″;I just found out about Mozilla’s new ‘experimental’ content authoring tool – Ubiquity.
Similar to Zemanta, Ubiquity allows you to easily ‘Accessorise’ your email/blog/journalistic content with related content.
What makes Ubiquity different is that it integrates /mashups with other tools e.g. your personal calendar, google maps etc.  Interesting…
Check out the introductory video: http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/ubiquity/
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Zemanta

Andraž Tori, CTO and co-founder of Zemanta stopped by the other day to give us an overview of their product offering…

Introducing the Agile Epic Board

The inspiration for this tool was the good old Scrum Task Board, a hugely useful Collaboration, Planning and Project Management tool. However, the strength and the limitation of Task Boards rest with the fact that they are focused at an iteration level. Cards on the board represent stories and tasks being addressed by a single team during a single iteration.