Agile development; on-line free tools!
We have been looking to implement Agile methodology within our geographically distributed development team, so i need suggestions on any free on-line application that you have used and find useful.
Right now we are using paper cards and wall to manage this :), but we want to shift to an on-line version preferably free.
I have used TargetProcess at my previous job!
My Core requirements are:
- Business Analyst can add user stories
- We can assign, prioritize different user stories to developers.
- QA team can add test cases around different user stories.
- Project Manager can track the time of all the resources and can pull reports for upper management
Answer
I've been using Pivotal Tracker which is a free agile project management tool and covers the following agile concepts:
- Velocity tracking and emergent iterations
- Story-based iterative planning
- Real-time collaboration
Would certainly recommend you try this before paying for an alternative.
Also, as mentioned, Basecamp is a great tool for maintaining documentation, to-do lists and the rest. There is a barely promoted free option for single project use that you will find on the signup page below the Max and Premium options.
Possibly not an agile tool as such (depends on your definition) but the free Team City continuous integration and build server is the kind of software that you don't believe you could live without once you've used it. Basically a commit to SVN by any developer triggers a build to your staging server about 30 seconds later meaning the latest build is very agile!