We are enamored with the automobile and most still see it as a ticket to the good life, not a burden on the checkbook. We’re entrenched in 70 years of a psyche that proclaims our prosperity as a nation is tied to our road system (and how fast we can get to the Applebee’s). The end result comes with the caveat that you have to burn a half-gallon of gasoline to pick up a half-gallon of milk.

Many people who have managed projects with hours have a hard time understanding why story points are better. They have failed to understand some fundamental data that has been published for over 20 years in the industry literature as well as the latest research.

First, let's look at the latest data on project failures. Failure rates are increasing for IT projects during the current disruption of the global financial system. The latest Standish group analysis shows that agile projects have three times the success rate of traditional projects. Jim Johnson now recommends agile practice be used universally on all projects.

This document describes the REST API and resources provided by JIRA. The REST APIs are for developers who want to integrate JIRA into their application and for administrators who want to script interactions with the JIRA server.

JIRA's REST APIs provide access to resources (data entities) via URI paths. To use a REST API, your application will make an HTTP request and parse the response. Currently, the only supported reponse format is JSON. Your methods will be the standard HTTP methods like GET, PUT, POST and DELETE (see API descriptions below for which methods are available for each resource).

Plnnr automatically generates your free personalized ready-to-use itinerary in split seconds.

Including scheduled daily routes, navigating directions, hotel price comparison, attractions info.

The Magic Work Cycle is a powerful productivity technique. It's very simple. Work for thirty minutes, giving all of your attention to whatever project you are working on. After thirty minutes, take a break for thirty minutes. You can do anything you want to take your mind off of your work. Then repeat again with thirty minutes of work.

And this page has a timer feature to tell you when to switch.

Using Evidence-Based Scheduling is pretty easy: it will take you a day or two at the beginning of every iteration to produce detailed estimates, and it’ll take a few seconds every day to record when you start working on a new task on a timesheet. The benefits, though, are huge: realistic schedules.

Realistic schedules are the key to creating good software. It forces you to do the best features first and allows you to make the right decisions about what to build. Which makes your product better, your boss happier, delights your customers, and—best of all—lets you go home at five o’clock.

The KDEPIMPI is a cross-platform Personal Information Manager based on Qt. It has a calendar (kopi), contact/address book (kapi), mobile phone interface (kammu), and time tracker (ktpi), password manager (pwmpi), SIP phone (kppi), and mail client (ompi).

KDE PIM is sub project of KDE. Its goal is to provide an application suite to manage personal information. This includes mail, time, people and more.