[LRUG] Scrum backlog/user story management

[Anthony Green]

Let your team decide. 'Individuals and interactions over processes and tools' states the manifesto. 
Ideally user stories should be tokens of conversation between your developers and your clients, so your developers would be writing them.

We're trying Jira and to date I'm not liking it. It feels like its getting in the way. 

If you're trying to manage your records for billing or something similar 'by the backdoor' as I've seen managers choosing 'Agile' PM tools do, I think that's a different question.

As for SaaS i think we should endeavour to support our own internal Ruby economy by paying for tools like Github and Pivotal Tracker.

Tony


On 22 Mar 2010, at 13:34, Ronny Ager-Wick wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 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.
> As a side note, we'll probably end up using HAML and SASS as well, which I have to say the first time I saw I was thinking "what on earth it this useless annoying rubbish?", but after doing my due diligence I was thinking "wow, this is really DRY! Definitely the right way to do things - I just have to use this!"
> 
> I'm considering a number of options, ranging from writing a simple tool myself to using a paid SaaS system. I would prefer an open source solution though, as I'd like the possibility of retaining the data (and the ability to browse it) indefinitely without having to keep paying an SaaS provider forever (and depend on their continuous operation). However if I need to, I'll still consider SaaS.
> 
> Any comments or tips, positive or negative, would be greatly appreciated!
> Ronny.
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