Introducing: backlogged.com

Well, it's been a busy old time here at the new Aspect Towers on the Edgware Road and it's only going to get busier in the next few weeks - provided we get plenty of alpha users for our new offering, backlogged.com.

Backlogged is an agile project management offering with a very distinct difference: it's actually agile. We got sick and tired of trying to find a tool that properly followed the agile approach - all we could find were ugly beasts with ugly plugins that are as agile as a rhino doing the pole vault, or things so lightweight they're barely more use than a shared spreadsheet.

And, given that we're an agile company and absolutely brilliant (that's a direct quote) at design and development, we figured we'd just build one ourselves. And, plenty of coffee and cookies, a lot of post-its (we'd rather use them than date an ugly one), and a bunch of Magic Whiteboard strips later, we're on the verge of letting people get their hands on it.

At the moment, we're asking people to let us know if they want to be involved in the alpha but it's not going to be a closed shop - if you want to give it a whirl, we'd love you to. One we word of caution, though: it is an alpha at the moment and we're looking for plenty of feedback so there are likely to be a few changes, which may mean changes to the database and may mean bits and pieces get lost - although we'll provide plenty of warning if we're going to make such changes. Basically, just don't put all your desperately important stuff in there until we go properly live.