Decide on a Agile project management tool

[clrockwell]

Trello was mentioned last night and I put together an example of using it as a scrum tool. I like Trello because it's so easy to move Cards, Lists, and Boards.

I was just introduced to scrum concepts last night, so bear with me; at the very least, I think it will help us decide if Trello is a contender for managing the project.

https://trello.com/kyosstopicmanager (should be public, let me know if you have any issues).

Basically how I'm thinking about it:

• Boards to aggregate main sections (groups of stories)
• Each story is a list within respective board
• Lists move from PM & SM Review to either archive (not moving forward) or sprint ready
• From sprint ready conversations can happen (add voting, if beneficial)
• In planning session, Lists are moved from sprint ready to their respective sprint sessions
• Team members are added to specific sprints
• When sprints are done, archive and start on next sprint

Additional Notes/Resources:

• http://scrumfortrello.com/
• http://www.civicactions.com/blog/2012/oct/10/five_tips_for_using_trello_for_scrum

Thoughts?

[InfoSec812]

So, I started into looking at Trello and I got really frustrated that there was no way to do points estimating... Then, I read the rest of your links and the Trello browser extension resolves that issue.. The question I have is: How does the extension store the points estimate?

[InfoSec812]

Nevermind, I see now... A number in parens is the points and a number in braces is the hours estimate... Works for me and has the added benefit of being free and readily available.. And at a later date, if we get our open source JIRA site we can try that out and decide if we want to switch...