[LRUG] Scrum backlog/user story management

Murray Steele murray.steele at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 07:48:00 PDT 2010


We've been using Taskboard (http://www.taskboard.cognifide.com/) which is
pretty simple but does the job.  It's a rails app though, so you can easily
hack it to add the other things you might want. (For example we've added
story points counting per column).

On 22 March 2010 14:37, Roland Swingler <roland.swingler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another tool I like is http://agilezen.com/ although it might not be
> as appropriate as pivotaltracker for a pure scrum project (it gives a
> lot less emphasis to estimation/story points and more to story flow,
> lean-style).
>
> Cheers,
> Roland
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Paul Campbell <paul at rslw.com> wrote:
> > +1 for pivotal tracker. It pretty much changed the way I work with
> > clients ... really brings them in on the development process in a way
> > that I found other tools don't.
> >
> > —P
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Andrew Stewart
> > <boss at airbladesoftware.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Ronny,
> >>
> >> On 22 Mar 2010, at 13:34, Ronny Ager-Wick wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm just wondering if any of you could share your experience with
> specific
> >>> tools for managing user stories, either as a separate system or as part
> of
> >>> an Agile/SCRUM backlog/project management system?
> >>> I can't do it on paper as I'm working with a distributed team. We'll be
> >>> using Scrum (apart from the standups being virtual) and TDD.
> >>
> >>
> >> I use Pivotal Tracker, a free webapp for managing user stories.  It's
> got a
> >> nice workflow for stories, and it also has an API so you can integrate
> it
> >> with other tools you may use.
> >>
> >> The FAQ's worth reading:
> >>
> >> http://www.pivotaltracker.com/help
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Andy Stewart
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