Bret, I am in much the same situation as you are - just kicked off scrum with 2 pilots - in fact, yesterday - pretty much disheartened team, have a lot of work...
We tried several tools and liked version 1 best. Really my only complaint with it is that big changes in ordering the backlog can be annoying, but we like it...
From a purists perspective, how do tools like Target process where individual developers update their daily hours worked at the task level reconcile with the...
Bret, My suggestion would be JIRA, I am just going through the process of converting from TestDirector to JIRA for story, defect and enhancement tracking. We...
I don't know why Microsoft makes is so difficult to find and use these "system stored procedures". http://www.agilistas.org/agile/RenameMssqlDatabaseInRuby ...
Hi, folks, me again: your friendly local columnist for Software Test & Performance magazine. I'm looking for input for my next "best practices" (aka "Things I...
Yury, I'll take: D) All of the above! Our reasons where, 1) The licence structure without getting into specific $$ amounts, JIRA has an unlimited user licence...
FWIW a Defect Manager Only license can be purchased from Mercury for Test Director if you don't want or need the other modules. We use that model. Testers and...
Andrew, ... Can you perhaps provide the URL to the webpage or Press Release where this EOL (including the date) was announced? I'd like to provide it to our QE...
Code with Character by Tod Golding When I'm writing code, I like my types to be straight shooters. I'm not into types that are complicated or mysterious. It's...
I see nothing in Quality Center's architecture that excludes it from being a useful Agile/TDD tool for developers and PMs. I also believe that the Agile/TDD...
Rally's Agile Roadshow - A Free Seminar: How To Scale Agile Development Hello, my company Rally Software is offering an optional free seminar on Scaling Agile...
... What do you want to use it for? For what kind of teams (colocated or not, size)? ... In my experience, an electronic tool is unlikely to teach you or your ...
... Forgot to mention: by far the best way to create a burndown chart is to have the whole team update a BIG chart on the wall in a team ritual, using simple ...
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Hi Bret, As you are probably aware you could use basecamp ("http://www.basecamphq.com/"). It has an agile philosophy behind it, and for traditional project...
... We are using it at work. And we additionally use index cards for planning and a hand drawn burn up chart on the wall. It simply works better. ... What kind...
Hello all, I am relatively novice to the XP/AgileMethods but I think i understand theoretically, the power of acceptance test. I mean I have seen it running...
It seems to me that your choices of tools should be predicated on the kinds of questions you want to answer. There are several zillion questions that you...
... We have teams in two locations. Each team is mostly in one location. However, it is important to give visibility outside of the team. ... I completely...
... I've been using Trac lately as an agile development/testing tool. Trac is available at <http://www.edgewall.com/trac/>. It can serve as a bug tracking...
That's interesting. At once company I worked at we used Bugzilla to track stories/tasks per iteration in a similar way. Then we would create a burn-down chart...
... If all I needed was visibility, my first try would be a high resolution webcam showing the wall of cards. Don't have any experience with it though - wasn't...
... Even in the room, it takes the eyes of an eagle to read a wall of cards. And except on the tv cop shows, no one can zoom in on a fuzzy pic and get a clear...
... Depends on how much of the details (if there are any) you really need to read, I guess. But as I said, it would be what I'd like to try - I'm not sure that...
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