Its been a while since you posted these screencasts, but Im really finding it helpful! so thanks! =D

Any chance you could have the mind map file you used in Iteration 0, downloadable.

Its bad enough when I force people to suffer thru my typing of code, I’d definitely not make them sit thru my typing of all the user stories

One of favourite motivations for the “reason” in user stories is that, once you understand the rationale, you may realise there’s a better way of achieving the results of the “action” than what the “actor” was initially suggesting to you.

For example, sometimes when attempting to automate a manual process, that is exactly what is attempted, rather than thinking about how best to automate the process.

Incidentally, it did amuse me that you changed “employee” to “person with a skill”, due to managers etc being “employees” too - The obvious implication being they don’t have skills!

This is an interesting offer; let me give it some thought for a bit. My immediate impressions are…

1) I think it would certainly be pretty interesting to try this

2) I’d like to wait a bit until more groundwork is laid for the app before trying such a thing

3) I’m a bit concerned about how we would accomplish this given that I’m somewhat constrained into using the technology infrastructure that we use at my company here rather than more OSS tools for certain things — for example, the TargetProcess for agile work item management and planning and SourceGear’s Vault for source control. Its not clear to me where we could host these things in an environment that more than just myself could access. (I’m not trying to pour cold water on the idea, just ruminating about some potential challenges in such an approach).

Let me give this some more thought — there might be some way to achieve what you’re suggesting with some creativity on my part.

I got introduced to your blog through the wonderful NHibernate screencast series hosted on http://www.summerofnhibernate.com.

I was just wondering if for this series, you might want to form an actual team to keep it as close to a real project as possible and to balance the workload a little. Please let me know if you decide to do so, I would be happy to join in my spare time and I hope some of your other viewers will be happy to volunteer too if needed.