Has anyone spent any time checking out project management software? After trying yet another personal solution in Excel I decided to look around again.
My criteria:
- layout a schedule based on my estimated hours and assign people to the hours
- simple. Don’t give me the world on a single screen (Basecamp baby, it just works)
- while I’m out there, I still want an electronic way to manage scrum user stories. Cards are great, but I revise too much to have to rewrite all the time.
I’ve watched the videos for this one: www.targetprocess.com/ and it looks cool. Web based, demos in Firefox (vote of confidence), lets me turn off the modules I don’t want to use.
Maybe I’ll try it out.
Tags: Project Management
One I’d check out is Tackle. It is specifically based on Scrum.
http://www.codeplex.com/Tackle
Haven’t looked beyond watching. And seeing it is Open source
I would also check out Mingle, which is by ThoughtWorks. I have read good things about it from at least one rather well-known developer, and ThoughtWorks is the Martin Fowler organization.
http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence
From the site: “Mingle is a project collaboration and management tool for Agile software development. It adapts to the way a project team thinks and works, enabling them to get work done and deliver results more quickly.”
It includes templates developed by ThoughtWorks for XP and Scrum based on their own delivery engagements. One of the nice things about using tools is that they often embed best practices. This is true for something like Salesforce, and I would assume would be true of a tool like this as well.
It looks like they’ve thought about a lot of the things that you would like to have:
* Ability to print story cards, easily prioritize them.
* Burn down reports (i.e., number of story points left with each iteration)
* % Complete reports.
* Integration with Subversion to tag code with iterations.