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title: "An Agile phone Number"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/2/25/an-agile-phone-number.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2008/2/25/an-agile-phone-number.html"
published: "2008-02-25T02:40:39"
updated: "2008-02-25T02:40:39"
tags: ["Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "We are now using Secret Server at work , and liking it very much (apart from small usability problems it's cool). I just found out something that put a smile on my face - Thycotic - the company who makes this product…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# An Agile phone Number

By Roy Osherove February 25, 2008 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published February 25, 2008; technical details may be outdated.

We are now using [Secret Server](http://www.thycotic.com/products_secretserver_overview.html) at [work](http://typemock.com/), and liking it very much (apart from small usability problems it's cool). I just found out something that put a smile on my face - [Thycotic](http://www.thycotic.com/) - the company who makes this product and works in an agile fashion has a cool phone number at the bottom of the product intranet portal:

![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/03c13d0b_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_AnAgilephoneNumber_A478_image_thumb.png)

Coolness :) Are these the new agile vanity plates?

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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