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Seeking name for my software development team

Posted March 3, 2010 - 11:00am by Martin

I'm heading into a full-year capstone project and need a name for my team and we're having a hard time thinking of something. Any ideas?

We are using a design/development methodology known as Extreme Programming which is a subset of Agile methods. The name may or may not derive from this (most of the ideas from my team mates are just synonyms for "agile" Confused ). I'd personally prefer a non-Agile related name because that's lame.

Suggestions so far from team mates:
Spry
Intrepid (several software companies already use this)
Whiz
Nimble
Deft
Mercurial Designs (already the name of a famous piece of software)

My own ideas:
Milkshake Software
Figure-8 Software

I'm drawing a blank Puzzled I think synonyms for 'agile' show a remarkable lack of creativity. Need a name in the next day or two.

Martin's picture
On March 3, 2010 - 11:02am Martin says:

I also considered the Albanian word for 'agile', zhdërvjellët. It just rolls off the tongue.
Edit - holy shit, check out the Welsh, "ystwyth". I like the Polish word, "zwinny". Funky.

Chris D's picture
On March 3, 2010 - 2:56pm Chris D says:

I fail at names, but I suggest avoiding the typical tech baby-talk type names. At the end of the day, Homer had the best name for a tech business: CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet.

Michelle's picture
On March 4, 2010 - 4:27pm Michelle says:

PoodleSchnoodleLabradoodle Software

Chris D's picture
On March 4, 2010 - 4:49pm Chris D says:

uuuuuh :/

On March 6, 2010 - 2:21pm Cameron says:

You could always go for names of other agile methodologies, there are cool ones like kanban, wabisabi, sigma and kaizen, have a google I am sure there are a tonne more. Personally think wabisabi is pretty snazzy.

Whats your project going to be?

Martin's picture
On March 6, 2010 - 5:12pm Martin says:

We ended up going with Spry Software, I don't really like the name but oh well, not a big deal. The project is a plugin for Eclipse IDE that gives round-trip engineering functionality for things like UML diagrams and code visualizations. So you could, for example, create the bones of a project using a UML diagramming tool, that generates the code, you can modify the code and changes are reflected in the UML diagram, so they're constantly in sync. We'll be working with multiple code visualizations so it's not just UML. There are currently no really good solutions for this problem. But for anyone who didn't really understand this paragraph it really won't be interesting - it's a software development tool.