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Open source and free agile tools

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Welcome to an overview of open source agile project management software tools. This site has been created by Targetprocess, a company that has been developing commercial software for agile project management and bug tracking since 2004. We hope that you find required tools among open source projects, but if not, visit our website to check out the cool features of our professionally maintained agile software.

Agile Glossary

Scrum
Kanban
Extreme Programming (XP)

Acceptance Testing
Backlog
Burn Down Chart
Daily Meeting
Effort Estimates in Abstract Units (Points)
Impediment
Iteration
Iteration Planning
Iteration Velocity
Kanban Board
Release Planning
Task Board
Test-Driven Development
User Story
Workflow
Work-in-Progress (WIP)

XPlanner / dead

XPlanner is one of the first web based agile project management tools and it had more features than other products. XPlanner is solid and used by many companies. However, XPlanner development was stopped many years ago (latest release May-2008).



Pros Cons
  • Most feature-complete tool among other free open source products
  • Integrated time tracking
  • Several nice reports like burn down chart
  • Export
  • SOAP API
  • Email Notifications
 
  • Hard setup for anyone who do not familiar with Java world
  • No releases, iterations only

Platform [Technologies]: Windows/Unix [Java, MySQL, Oracle, Firebird, PostgreSQL]

Rating

Functionality Usability Performance
****   ****   ****

Web Site: xplanner.codehaus.org

Reviews & Opinions

Using XPlanner in real project March 20, 2004
Good opinion April 20, 2006

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