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  • What Is The Best Kanban Board Software That Integrates With Sharepoint?

    Thanks for asking me to answer this question.

    Unfortunately I can’t do it comfortably, because all the products that I would classify as ‘good’ or ‘recommended’, are not on Sharepoint. The reason is architectural.   Although Sharepoint is an amazing and nearly universal product.   Sharepoint isn’t well designed for this problem and neither is Jira really, although at Atlassian they do an amazing job of it.

    This space is our industry, and we know if fairly well, and the best tool we can find for pure (analytical) devs is TargetProcess. It’s very powerful and nerdy. The best tool for production support, and the industry standard is Jira. Jira is simple and usable if you can tolerate the rather terrible navigation. There are a half dozen others that are extremely good.  But these are our top two choices, and they’re the one’s we recommend if our product Oversing would be overkill.

    Our product is probably the most powerful solution by a couple orders of magnitude, but it’s for running an entire services business and making money at it, and so it’s not just a dev tool, and it’s not on Sharepoint.


    Check out these links
    Which is the best agile software project management tool?

    And this product
    SharePoint & TFS

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-Kanban-board-software-that-integrates-with-SharePoint

  • What Is The Best Kanban Board Software That Integrates With Sharepoint?

    Thanks for asking me to answer this question.

    Unfortunately I can’t do it comfortably, because all the products that I would classify as ‘good’ or ‘recommended’, are not on Sharepoint. The reason is architectural.   Although Sharepoint is an amazing and nearly universal product.   Sharepoint isn’t well designed for this problem and neither is Jira really, although at Atlassian they do an amazing job of it.

    This space is our industry, and we know if fairly well, and the best tool we can find for pure (analytical) devs is TargetProcess. It’s very powerful and nerdy. The best tool for production support, and the industry standard is Jira. Jira is simple and usable if you can tolerate the rather terrible navigation. There are a half dozen others that are extremely good.  But these are our top two choices, and they’re the one’s we recommend if our product Oversing would be overkill.

    Our product is probably the most powerful solution by a couple orders of magnitude, but it’s for running an entire services business and making money at it, and so it’s not just a dev tool, and it’s not on Sharepoint.


    Check out these links
    Which is the best agile software project management tool?

    And this product
    SharePoint & TFS

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-Kanban-board-software-that-integrates-with-SharePoint

  • Thought you would like this piece

    Thought you would like this piece.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 13:41:00 UTC

  • (Thank you Michael J. McKay for sage advice.)

    (Thank you Michael J. McKay for sage advice.)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-09 11:12:00 UTC

  • (Thank you so much for all you do. You make my world at least, a better world to

    (Thank you so much for all you do. You make my world at least, a better world to live in.) – Curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-09 07:35:00 UTC

  • What Are The Key Differences Between Mainstream Libertarian Thought And The Positions Taken By Koch-sponsored Organizations?

    The Koch’s are irrelevant.  They are just the easiest source of money. But it doesn’t take much money to run a think tank, so there are a lot of them.

    The libertarian spectrum is roughly aligned with the conservative,  Right Libertarian, Left Libertarian, and Anarchist spectrum, and most of us are associated with one or more of the Think Tanks that address the conservative – libertarian spectrum. 


    They are (key players only):



    CONSERVATIVE LIBERTARIAN
    1. The Heritage Foundation : conservative libertarians (focus on norms and the family)

    MIDDLE (Classical Liberal Libertarian)
    1. Cato: Well connected, Republican Libertarians (focus on practical action to minimize government).
    2. The Future of Freedom Foundation   “Individual liberty, free markets, private property and limited government.” The FFF takes its libertarianism very seriously, so much so that even liberals may find themselves nodding while reading.
    3. The Heartland Institute  Moderate libertarianism, go to “PolicyBot”.

    RADICAL (Anarcho Capitalist Libertarian)
    1. Mises Institute : Anarchic Libertarians (focus on eliminating the state )
    2. Property and Freedom Society: (Focus on small private governments similar to monarchies.)

    OTHERS
    • American Enterprise Institute ( focus on entrepreneurship and economics)
    • Independent Institute    Aims to eliminate government influence and 5) interference in all aspects of life.
    • Cascade Policy Institute     Libertarian and oriented toward Oregon, there are broader issues under “Policy Areas”.
    • Institute for Policy Innovation   With the usual emphasis on “lower taxes, fewer regulations, and a smaller, less-intrusive government” pertaining to social security and healthcare, the IPI also addresses intellectual property and technological issues.
    • Lexington Institute    Libertarian views on defense, education, regulation, homeland security, immigration, Cuba and postal reform.


    FULL LISTS
    There are a lot of them and less than half are listed in wikipedia.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-between-mainstream-libertarian-thought-and-the-positions-taken-by-Koch-sponsored-organizations

  • Is It True, As John C. Drew Asserts, That He Is “the Only Ph.d. Level, Published Political Scientist Contributing Comments At Quora”?

    I don’t know if he is the only PhD, since there are a lot of PhD’s in Political Science.  You must realize that in America that a PhD does not mean that  you have mastered a field, but it means you have mastered the art of RESEARCH in your field.  And I am fairly sure that most questions are better answered by Pollsters, statisticians and Political Economists than political scientists. I am not sure that those of us who write political philosophy, even the philosophy of political economy, are any better at it than any of the other groups. 

    But, that hedging said, by and large, very few specialists post here, and most of the questions are fraudulent attempts to promote leftism by asking critical questions.  See “The Critical Theory” and “The Culture of Critique” as means of undermining western moral and social structures through obscurantist criticism.

    I tend to only answer questions here if they sound reasonably intelligent and honest, and thats a high bar for this forum.  And it’s getting worse.  Democracy is a pretty good way of peaceful transfer of power, but not a good way of understanding much of anything. It’s a race to the bottom in most cases.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-as-John-C-Drew-asserts-that-he-is-the-only-Ph-D-level-published-political-scientist-contributing-comments-at-Quora

  • What Are The Key Differences Between Mainstream Libertarian Thought And The Positions Taken By Koch-sponsored Organizations?

    The Koch’s are irrelevant.  They are just the easiest source of money. But it doesn’t take much money to run a think tank, so there are a lot of them.

    The libertarian spectrum is roughly aligned with the conservative,  Right Libertarian, Left Libertarian, and Anarchist spectrum, and most of us are associated with one or more of the Think Tanks that address the conservative – libertarian spectrum. 


    They are (key players only):



    CONSERVATIVE LIBERTARIAN
    1. The Heritage Foundation : conservative libertarians (focus on norms and the family)

    MIDDLE (Classical Liberal Libertarian)
    1. Cato: Well connected, Republican Libertarians (focus on practical action to minimize government).
    2. The Future of Freedom Foundation   “Individual liberty, free markets, private property and limited government.” The FFF takes its libertarianism very seriously, so much so that even liberals may find themselves nodding while reading.
    3. The Heartland Institute  Moderate libertarianism, go to “PolicyBot”.

    RADICAL (Anarcho Capitalist Libertarian)
    1. Mises Institute : Anarchic Libertarians (focus on eliminating the state )
    2. Property and Freedom Society: (Focus on small private governments similar to monarchies.)

    OTHERS
    • American Enterprise Institute ( focus on entrepreneurship and economics)
    • Independent Institute    Aims to eliminate government influence and 5) interference in all aspects of life.
    • Cascade Policy Institute     Libertarian and oriented toward Oregon, there are broader issues under “Policy Areas”.
    • Institute for Policy Innovation   With the usual emphasis on “lower taxes, fewer regulations, and a smaller, less-intrusive government” pertaining to social security and healthcare, the IPI also addresses intellectual property and technological issues.
    • Lexington Institute    Libertarian views on defense, education, regulation, homeland security, immigration, Cuba and postal reform.


    FULL LISTS
    There are a lot of them and less than half are listed in wikipedia.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-between-mainstream-libertarian-thought-and-the-positions-taken-by-Koch-sponsored-organizations

  • Is It True, As John C. Drew Asserts, That He Is “the Only Ph.d. Level, Published Political Scientist Contributing Comments At Quora”?

    I don’t know if he is the only PhD, since there are a lot of PhD’s in Political Science.  You must realize that in America that a PhD does not mean that  you have mastered a field, but it means you have mastered the art of RESEARCH in your field.  And I am fairly sure that most questions are better answered by Pollsters, statisticians and Political Economists than political scientists. I am not sure that those of us who write political philosophy, even the philosophy of political economy, are any better at it than any of the other groups. 

    But, that hedging said, by and large, very few specialists post here, and most of the questions are fraudulent attempts to promote leftism by asking critical questions.  See “The Critical Theory” and “The Culture of Critique” as means of undermining western moral and social structures through obscurantist criticism.

    I tend to only answer questions here if they sound reasonably intelligent and honest, and thats a high bar for this forum.  And it’s getting worse.  Democracy is a pretty good way of peaceful transfer of power, but not a good way of understanding much of anything. It’s a race to the bottom in most cases.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-as-John-C-Drew-asserts-that-he-is-the-only-Ph-D-level-published-political-scientist-contributing-comments-at-Quora

  • (Damn. You convinced me. Really. )

    (Damn. You convinced me. Really. )

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-19 16:58:00 UTC