Agile Project Management Tools
- XPlanner
- Agilo
- Agilefant
- IceScrum
- XPWeb
- XPStoryStudio
XPlanner
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Using XPlanner in real project March 20, 2004 Good opinion April 20, 2006
Agilo
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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.
IceScrum is hard from the beginning, but it has nice features set and can be adopted by agile team. It seems it is the best open source agile project management tool so far.
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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. The tool does not have the concept of releases at all and that is strange, since it has products! Almost no reporting, and poor customization. It does not support points units for planning (quite strange for agile tool). User interface has too few screens and some screens looks overburdened (like default project screen which contains project details, themes, backlog, iterations with all details). There are some usability issues, but in general tool is quite easy to grasp. It does not look like a complicated solution. You may try Agilefant for small projects, I don’t think it will be convenient for large projects with 20+ people.
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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
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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
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