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What is the best free online software to help do agile development and management on my ruby on rails application?
What I am looking for is an online form that multiple people can interact with with the ability to do:
Planning poker
Iterations/sprints
Velocity calculations/predictions
Backlog prioritization
Stories with point values
Bonus:
And maybe a way to integrate with github
I have tried scrumdo but just wondered if there is a better free application.
Couple of suggestions for online scrum management -
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Pivotal Tracker
All this time (14 years) of professional activity, I've been searching for the best tools. Since Agile Hyping the research continue and I want to give you my piece of contribution.:
I've never seen a tool like Target Process for managment of SCRUM and Kanban.
The tool is AWESOME!
Cons.: Doesn't have Planning Poker. Doesn't have timer to tasks. You have to input.
Pro.: Bugtracking integrated. Constantly updates. Free to 5 people team.
If you want I can share my review of some tested tools.
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We are a small development team of 3. We are responsible for the design, development, test, and publish of each software application. We also provide software support, and deal with any issues the users may have, as well as bug fixing.
At the moment, each developer is solely responsible for seeing a project through from start to finish. So they will discuss with the client the requirements for the software. They will plan, design, and develop the software (both front-end and back-end). And they are responsible for testing and bug fixing.
Is this a development process that is recommended or should each developer be designated a number of tasks on each project?
I have been thinking of applying SCRUM principles to our development process but not sure how effective they would be. From what we do I gether that we are already working in an agile methodology with short iterations, and requirement discussions with the client?
Would you recommend SCRUM for our environment? How do other small teams operate?
It depends what is your purpose: implementing Agile just because it is the newest 'fashion' might prove to be very costly for your existing business.
In my experience (almost 15 years, now) it is better to implement Agile all around the company, not only at Tech level (or DevOps as they are now calling it).
If you implement any Agile method in a development environment than you simply get a bit more efficiency in that environment, only! A coder can not write more than that number of lines a day. Than, because the rest of the business is still at 'waterfall' your development side becomes a bottleneck by having to lag because of the rest...
In your particular case, perhaps it would be a good idea to get together with the developers and ask them: Agile or status quo? Once ALL of you agree for Agile than just go for it - first do it by the book and after a few sprints just start adapting what you need to your given situation. Perhaps a bit of pair-programming, a bit of cross-collaboration etc At the end of the day you are only three people: how difficult can it be to obtain consensus? funny
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I'm looking to set up a small site for a friend that has some widgets they want to sell online. I don't think I will have much time for maintenance once it goes live (for that matter, I don't expect I'll have much time for initial setup and configuration), and I am looking for something that is dead-simple for a non-technical user to maintain (financial/payment info, add/remove/change products).
The second most important part would be good integration with a payment provider. I'm not too fussy what language it's in if it meets my other criteria (if I don't know the language I will learn enough to get the site running).
Also important is that I'd prefer to stick to open-source products, mostly because I don't think this project will have much of a budget for high-end commercial products (at least not until it makes some sales).
The last time I did this sort of stuff we were building custom sites from scratch for clients with very specific needs. I do not have recent experience with the current generation of blogging tools (Wordpress, Joomla, etc...) and I don't really know which off-the-shelf combo of platforms and plugins are best to get something up and running in as little time as possible.
Hosting your own online store is a full-time occupation, no different from running your own brick-and-mortar store. Anything that accepts online payments will be targeted by criminals for online fraud.
If your business is selling widgets and not running online stores, I strongly, strongly suggest using a hosted service with its own web integration and payment handling. I know people who have used both Weebly and Etsy and who are happy with them.
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Does anybody know what large companies are currently using agile iconix process??
The only ones I know are the one I could find on the ICONIX Software Engineering corporate website:
Case studies: see how ESRI Professional Services, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope are succeeding with ICONIX Process
I may be wrong but to me, the ICONIX methodology isn't really widely used and it
looks more like a way to sell their Enterprise Architect product.
And personally, I never had big successes with too much UML centric approaches (à la MDA).
I like the process and used it well in several projects. I just want to give some of my thoughts on it:
Iconix is based on domain driven design. Domain comes first. This is fine, however we need to be aware of a boundary conditions. To put is simply, domain driven design works for the relatively complex projects. There may not be a domain model as design pattern at all since it may not be the best choice for every system.
Iconix assumes sophisticated deisgn. Not every project needs it and not every project has developers capable of absorbing it. There are tons of data-centric or purely data manipulation applications out there.
No community, stale web site. I don't know of anybody who uses the process.
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We have a huge debate in our organisation to use AGILE in ERP projects. Can anyone give an example of a successful implementation as such?
Here are some papers and websites that you might be interested in:
Agile Project Management Methods for ERP: How to Apply Agile Processes to Complex COTS Projects and Live to Tell About It
Agile ERP: "You don't know what you've got 'till it's gone!" (Requires IEEE Xplore Subscription or article purchase to view)
Agile Project Management Methods for ERP
Agile ERP
I'm not that familiar with building ERP software, but from what it seems, they appear to have a few things in common. ERP software is large in terms of features and scope and development often takes a long time. I believe that Agile principles might be of value here, even if you aren't using full-blown agile methodologies.
The central tenets of Agile are rapid delivery of working software, accepting late-changing requirements, and close cooperation between the business and users and developers. A highly iterative approach to building an ERP system and close collaboration between the users and the developers to continually add the features that add the most value seem like it will yield the most bang for your buck.
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If anyone is trying to do agile, i am trying to figure out a way to use JIRA / Greenhopper for this. We are a global dev team so the distributed nature is crucial here.
We were initially using Scrumworks but the team complained that they had duplicate information in JIRA and scrumworks all the time and thought it was redundant.
We got Greenhopper and thought that would solve our problems but the problems that i have with this are:
No User story concept in JIRA
Greenhopper too "task" focused without aggregation at the user story level.
Has anyone successfully done this in JIRA or should we look at moving back to other tools like scrumworks and just use JIRA for bugs raised by our support team.
You can add your own Issue types in JIRA.
Just add a type called User Story.
Then make sure to enable your sub-tasks feature in JIRA.
You will then be able to explode your stories int multiple Subtasks.
The integration of the subtasks is pretty nice if you reuse the Ranking feature.
See: http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/confluence/display/GH/PLANNING+BOARD#PLANNINGBOARD-ordering
You will then be able to
1) Estimate your Stories in Story points
2) Prioritize your issues (with the ranking field)
3) Explode your stories in multiple subtasks that you will estimate in hours.
You should post your questions on the GreenHopper forum, might have more and quicker answers. http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/site/forums/list.page
Cheers,
I'm using Jira 4.3 and Greenhopper and it supports user stories out of the box. There also support for Epics and Themes but you have to do a bit of configuring. Likely this built in functionality was added after the date of the original question.
You might also try using an Agile Lifecycle Management product such as Rally, www.rallydev.com. Rally is built from the ground up to support any agile process and create comprehensive reports across teams. Check it out.
Try Mingle - this has a great integration with Jira allowing software dev teams (using Mingle) and support teams (using Jira) to work the way they want.