How best to do Agile Development with Trac?

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Epaga picture Epaga · Oct 28, 2008 · Viewed 14.3k times · Source

We use Trac as our bug tracking / development / wiki system and I was wondering if anyone has experience and uses some of the Trac Agile/Scrum plugins or functionalities? Anything you'd recommend?

Or would it be better to duplicate Trac tickets as dead-tree user story index cards and a hand-drawn burndown chart?

Note that I found a similar question here. Though it's specifically about Scrum. They recommend Agilo. Has anyone tried Agilo yet?

Answer

Ilja Preuß picture Ilja Preuß · Nov 1, 2008

With a collocated team, I'd always duplicate user stories on index cards. A wall of cards is much more collaborative and simple to use than any software tool. And what's most important, it's in your face.

The same is true for a burn chart. In my experience, a software chart gets online looked at by a small number of people, and typically is a pull medium. A big, handdrawn poster (that changes regularly) gets noticed by everyone, and serves as an incubator for ad hoc discussions.

It's also quite valueable to be able to point at them during your daily scrum meeting.

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