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Agile Glossary

SCRUM
Extreme Programming (XP)

Iteration
Velocity
User Story
Impediment

Daily Meeting
Acceptance Testing
Effort Estimates in Abstract Units (Points)
Test-Driven Development
Task Board
Backlog
Release Planning
Iteration Planning
Burn Down Chart

Agile Project Management Tools

Agilefant

Agilefant is a web-based tool written on Java and the tool is under active development. It is quite feature rich and allows to create products, projects, iterations, themes and user stories, has time tracking, burn down chart, some people allocations management. It works pretty fast.

The missing features are release and iteration planning → Digg into details.

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XPlanner

XPlanner is one of the first web based agile project management tools and it has more features than other products. XPlanner is solid and used by many companies. However it seems XPlanner development was stopped (latest release May-2006) → Digg into details

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IceScrum

Interesting web-based tool. The tool is under active development (latest version July 27, 2008). It has some really nice concepts on board. Planning poker powers user stories estimation. Stories represented by cards and there are several useful filters presets. When you add a user story it has template As ... I want ... In order to ... which is nice and helpful. The downside is usability → Digg into details.

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Agilo

Agilo based on Trac. The tool is under active development (latest version July 26, 2008). While it has several nice features like timeline, burn down charts and dashboard, integrated wiki, the concept behind Agilo has several flaws. There are no projects in the system, it means if you have several projects you will have to implement a workaround. Iteration and Releases planning is cumbersome → Digg into details

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XPStoryStudio

From the first sight, XPStoryStudio may evolve into good tool, but in reality it was released in beta in 2004 and development stopped after beta release. So if you are not satisfied with current functionality there are no chances to change anything. Tool by itself is quite crude. Some things are good like iterations and user stories with tasks, but usability and user focused functionality is quite poor → Digg into details.

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XPWeb

The only tool written on PHP. Has quite weird user interface, but quite a lot features. Demo is broken, so some features maybe do not work. The tool does not look as ready for production use in can't be used for agile project management in large teams → Digg into details.

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Scrum Breakfast

TargetProcess

TargetProcess v.2 is an agile project management tool. It is designed to solve distributed teams problems and support agile development processes.

Key Features:

  • Full Agile Project Management Support (SCRUM, XP, Custom)
  • Productivity Tools (Tp.Tray, ToDo List, Dashboards, Inline Editing)
  • Customizable Development Process
  • Subversion Integration
  • Integrated Bug Tracking, Help Desk, Time Tracking
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