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Some of the best projects I have worked on have been those with momentum. It may be just a feeling, but regardless of whether the project is on schedule or behind, when everybody is on the same page productivity starts to breed productivity and a little more seems to get done each day.
I wonder if it would be possible to formalize this feeling into something that can be modeled, measured, reported and ultimately used to bring transparency to software projects. I started an open source project on github.com today to play around with this idea. Check it out!
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Neat concept. I could see it being helpful on side projects too. You start off strong, then maybe somewhere you hit a small bump in the road. That knocks you off course, and the productivity slides…other projects begin to take over and you forget what knocked out off the path. Having some proactive monitoring of a project, that could let you know what kind of overall progress you, and the team were making, would be pretty neat!