London Bus Arrivals

TL;DR If you use London buses, check this out. Back in the dim and distant past (2011), Transport for London launched their Countdown API, which enabled finding out when the next buses would arrive at any given bus stop. James Darling created a fantastic, lightweight web application, bus.abscond.org, that I and many others really liked. Sadly, that died in 2016. TFL now have a …

Scripting Pivotal Tracker

We’ve been using Ticket Poker for a while, in my current team, and we’re pretty happy with it. Now, after each planning session, I take the stories we create in Pivotal Tracker, use a command-line script to generate a Ticket Poker ticket for each one, then paste its URL back into the Pivotal story. Pivotal Track Story That gets a bit repetitive, so I …

Ticket Poker API

Someone asked me about integrating Ticket Poker with Jira. I don’t use Jira, but it got me thinking. I want to minimise the amount of work required to get everyone to estimate a ticket, and I want to enable people to integrate Ticket Pokerinto other planning tools. So I’ve added a very simple API to Ticket Poker. Here’s how …

Ticket Poker

I wrote a little web application to help teams estimate tickets (aka stories) during sprint planning. In my current team, some people are often working remotely, so estimating is tricky. Slack or other chat tools are great, but if you estimate that way, people see each others’ estimates as soon as they type them, so …