Finally it is up & running! Our GanttProto demo application is up on appspot.com. My goal was to see how such a complex visual control can be done in the browser after one developer told me that it was impossible :-) I did have a suspicion that it is doable, based on my experience with the Calendar control, but you never know… :-) At the same token it is also a good test-case for our PMAP Grid control (coming in another announcement soon).

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While I was reading an interview with DavidI and Rob Cheng about the DevCo, I stumbled accross Rob mentioning Scrum in the context of agile software development. Scrum seems to be promising in making sure that the right product is built a little bit in the Japanese just-in-time style. It is a project management methodology, so it needs a softare development methodology and there it is most times accompained by eXtreme Programming (XP).

Read an introduction about it in Wikipedia.