I'm Paul, the creator of Argile Focus.

This is such a big topic I'm not sure how to position it or where to start, so let me try…

I'm a Software & Product Engineer with a deep affinity for process improvement - someone who should love being a software engineer, but doesn't. Because wherever I've worked, we seem to follow the same general practices and reach for the same toolkit: some variation of task lists or a Kanban board in Jira, Asana, or Linear. A team of engineers with different levels of experience. A product person, maybe a project manager. Everyone trying their best to hit fixed deadlines and deliver what's asked of them.

And along the way, I've found that all of this forces us into ways of working that conflict with my other love - Agile software development.

So I wanted to take a shot at fixing what I see as a real problem in our industry: the way we think about, plan, and deliver software. Argile Focus is my first attempt.

Argile Focus is a visual project planning and delivery platform that supports several aspects of day-to-day project delivery, including:

Initial planning
Work breakdown
Goal identification
Task structuring
Effort estimation
Daily reviews (i.e. stand-ups)

While building it, I kept thinking about the questions and frustrations that come up in my working day, and wanted answers to all of them:

How long until it's finished?
Who's working on what?
Where are we in our project plan?
What happens to the plan if we change this one thing?
Where's the source of truth for our project and what we need to achieve?

So - if, like me, you find it a grind using tools like Jira and Linear, and you want to try a new approach built by software engineers with real-world experience who want to see things change in our industry, please give Argile Focus a go.

Would love to hear any feedback, or if you have some gripes in your day-to-day that Argile Focus is missing let me know and I’ll make some improvements.

If you want an even longer demo /intro video -> https://youtu.be/MBUwMiv1ydQ

⁃ Cheers