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Open source and free agile tools

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Welcome to open source agile project management software list. This site is created by TargetProcess, company that develops commercial agile project management and bug tracking software. We hope that you may find required tool among open source projects, but if not, visit our web site to check very cool features of professionally maintained solution.

Agile Glossary

Scrum
Extreme Programming (XP)

Iteration
Velocity
User Story
Impediment

Daily Meeting
Acceptance Testing
Effort Estimates in Abstract Units (Points)
Test-Driven Development
Task Board
Backlog
Release Planning
Iteration Planning
Burn Down Chart

IceScrum

Interesting web-based tool. The tool is under active development (latest version May 11, 2010). 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 very nice and helpful. The downside is usability. Some very important actions like Add Sprint, Burn Down chart, etc available only via context menu! I spent half an hour to figure out how to plan a release and it was just a luck that I did the right click on the release name. Release and Iteration planning is very hard initially.

IceScrum is hard from the beginning, but it has nice features set and can be adopted by agile team.



Pros Cons
  • Planning Poker
  • Parking Lot and Burn Down Chart
  • Good Pojects/Releases/Sprints concept support
  • Drag and Drop for Task Board and Estimation
  • Themes support
 
  • Labels are counterintuitive, many labels are in French, strange navigation sometime
  • Poor documentation (no English manual)
  • Release/Iteration planning is complex
  • Works for small teams only

Platform [Technologies]: Windows/Unix [Java]

Online demo (admin / admin)

Rating

Functionality Usability Performance
****   ***   ***

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