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      <title>Orçamento de vendas diarias</title>
      <description>o sistema deve ao final do expediente gerar fatura total.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/190</link>
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      <dc:subject>Agility Limited</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>kleison leite</dc:creator>
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      <title>Car</title>
      <description>m</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 22:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/189</link>
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      <dc:subject>ScrumNinja</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Mariane Borges</dc:creator>
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      <title>teste</title>
      <description>teste</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 09:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/188</link>
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      <dc:subject>Redmine Backlogs</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>teste teste</dc:creator>
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      <title>test</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/187</link>
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      <dc:subject>Yodiz</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>olfa offa</dc:creator>
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      <title>good</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/186</link>
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      <dc:subject>Timebox</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>ali farshad</dc:creator>
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      <title>web flag</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/185</link>
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      <dc:subject>IceScrum R6#4</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>mezni mohamed</dc:creator>
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      <title>PGDC</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/184</link>
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      <dc:subject>BacklogTool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>benhassine afef</dc:creator>
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      <title>pgdc</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/183</link>
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      <dc:subject>BacklogTool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>dakhi sarra</dc:creator>
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      <title>A critical part of the process for our distributed open source team</title>
      <description>We run a distributed open source team that builds and delivers software tools for thousands of scientists worldwide.  We started using trac to manage the project several years ago.  While we really liked tracâ€™s ability to capture the projectâ€™s backlog and output, we had no way to monitor what the team was actually doing last week, today, or tomorrow.  Agiloâ€™s tools integrate very nicely with trac, maintain all of tracâ€™s strengths, but add a whiteboard and several useful analytic functions.  Itâ€™s now a critical part of our process, with the whiteboard constantly in use by all team members.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/182</link>
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      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>openmicroscopy .org</dc:creator>
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      <title>gsa project</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/181</link>
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      <dc:subject>BacklogTool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>mehdi chaibi</dc:creator>
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      <title>TestScrumy</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/180</link>
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      <dc:subject>Scrumy</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Laurent Poulenard</dc:creator>
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      <title>SloutionPlus</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/179</link>
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      <dc:subject>Timebox</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Tribhuwan Negi</dc:creator>
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      <title>Engineer in C. S.</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/178</link>
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      <dc:subject>BacklogTool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>rafael benÃ­tez</dc:creator>
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      <title>Minh Pham</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/177</link>
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      <dc:subject>Yodiz</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Minh Pham</dc:creator>
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      <title>teste</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/176</link>
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      <dc:subject>ScrumWorks Pro</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>amal amal</dc:creator>
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      <title>teste</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 04:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/175</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/175</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumWorks Pro</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>amal amal</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great tool for Startups!</title>
      <description>At gr3at.com we provide a web/mobile app for setting up spontanous leisure activities. For us as a Startup it was quite hard to find a perfect fitting and minimalistic project management tool. After testing a lot of tools we came to the conclusion that Tiny PM fits best. We really love it for being  simple and easy to use! Tiny PM focuses on the most important functions needed for agile development. Since we started working with Tiny PM we were able to boost our development and manage our team more efficient. We can highly recommend this tool for all Web/Mobile Startups out there! </description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 09:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/174</link>
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      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ernst Molden</dc:creator>
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      <title>None</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/173</link>
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      <dc:subject>Timebox</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Tran Trung</dc:creator>
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      <title>Exceptional Scrum Tool</title>
      <description>I have been a Trac and Agilo for Trac user for sometime. I highly recommend this product for Agile software development and love the fact that I can do everything from the user-friendly UI (browse code, check out the roadmap, and view my build status).</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/172</link>
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      <dc:subject>Agilo for Scrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Tarun Sukhani</dc:creator>
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      <title>Senior Software Developer</title>
      <description>w</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/171</link>
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      <dc:subject>Agility Limited</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Amany Yassin</dc:creator>
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      <title>Mr.</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/170</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/170</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agility Limited</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Sochinda Tith</dc:creator>
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      <title>Fast, reliable, and powerful tool</title>
      <description>This tool has been used by our organization for quite some time now. We started out with their installed Windows version, but have recently transitioned to their hosted environment and things have been great so far. The web app is extremely fast and it almost feels like the windows version. I really enjoy the keyboard shortcuts and the speed of viewing items. As a manager, the new visual dashboard that they added in this latest release is powerful enough for me to quickly see the health of a specific project. I would suggest checking these guys out. Their support team has been quite good as well.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/169</link>
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      <dc:subject>OnTime</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>George Mitchell</dc:creator>
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      <title>not bad; I wish it supported tasks better</title>
      <description>Our team includes people in two distant cities; we selected ScrumDo because we recognized its ability to give us a shared Scrum Board and to support other parts of Scrum. The burnup charts demonstrated important information about the project. The Product Backlog is easy enough to sort and maintain. The tool's support of Sprint Planning worked; it is easy to drag User Stories from the Product Backlog into the Sprint Backlog. The support of Planning Poker is effective. The tool supports adding Tasks to User Stories; it gives each Task a check box in which we recorded whether the Task was complete. So, there's lots good to say about the tool.

I wish the tool tracked Tasks for the burndown charts it prepares for a Sprint; we only found capability to track User Stories. We had tasks every Sprint with many Tasks. As we checked off Tasks, we knew we were making progress, but our Sprint burndown chart didn't show the progress until all Tasks (and the User Story) were complete. This was an obstacle for showing interim progress.

An obvious workaround is to teach the team to put our "Tasks" in the ScrumDo object labeled "User Story". We haven't done that yet. It would work.

Honestly, maybe I'd rather use "high touch, low tech". Maybe I'd rather have physical Scrum Boards (as in, with index cards taped to them) in both cities. In this case, before we wanted a shared view of the Scrum Board, two team members (one in each city) would catch up on changes posted in the other city. We haven't done that yet, either. I'm not sure I'd consider this for a team with members at three sites.

In sum: good enough tool, but it needs better support of Tasks.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/168</link>
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      <dc:subject>ScrumDo</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Garry Flemings</dc:creator>
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      <title>Perfect - simple and dam fast</title>
      <description>Agility Limited does a great job of helping a development team stay focused by dumping all the typical marketing speak / goofy features that tend to clutter the environment. From my experience it  mainstreamed the whole process of setting up an iterative Agile PM environment.  

It took me about a half hour to load my first project and invite team members. I found it very very simple to use.

If you need a nice clean Agile implementation this is a great tool.

BTW - the platform this is on is DAM fast.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/167</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/167</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agility Limited</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Chris Smith</dc:creator>
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      <title>Solution</title>
      <description>How to set priority to a story?
How to select Sprint?</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/166</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/166</guid>
      <dc:subject>Scrum-it</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Phuong Khau</dc:creator>
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      <title>Excellent Agile Project management tool</title>
      <description>Yodiz is good option for Agile project management tool. Yodiz offers Agile Scrum support and it also has integrated issue tracker, which makes it really easy to track user stories, tasks and bugs. ScrumBoard is nice Kanban Style board for tracking sprints.

ReleaseBoard is excellent addition for making it real simple to track Releases, which usually is quite painful. I personally love the Yodiz Release board.

Yodiz is free for upto 5 users and have very reasonable pricing model. You can get more information at www.yodiz.com</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/165</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/165</guid>
      <dc:subject>Yodiz</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Petra Hietaniemi</dc:creator>
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      <title>Extremely powerfull, intuitive and easy to use</title>
      <description>In its current state, Scrumwise is an excellent tool. It lets you focus on actual work and makes backlog management and sprint planning a breeze. While it misses some key features with regards to backlog management (which are currently being developed according to their FAQ) it easily makes up for that in ingenious design and fantastic user interface. Everything is exactly where one would look for them and Scrumwise is by far the best down-to-earh no-nonsense tool I've seen (and I've seen quite a few)

The fact that it doesn't provide rocket-science VC integration or incomprehensible layers of business logic, makes Scrumwise exactly what it's supposed to be - A great management tool that saves you time instead of robbing you from it.

With an almost Google-like aproach to user interface design, the creation wizards grab your hand and walk you through 3-4 mandatory steps, and BAM! You're ready to start "actual" work on your first sprint. In fact - I dare anyone to test it and not understand it after 2 minutes of usage.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 07:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/164</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/164</guid>
      <dc:subject>Scrumwise</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Casper Niebe</dc:creator>
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      <title>ProjektunterstÃ¼tzung im Projekt E-Learning in den Studienbereichen, UniversitÃ¤t Potsdam</title>
      <description>As project-coordinator I have choose Agilo for Scrum. It has all the functions we need to plan sprints and daily work task for our project which will be running until 2016. We use this tool as knowledge database including blogs, milestone-descriptions and many other tasks. It is for all teammembers (about 15 persons) the central place to look for project information. Through the possibility to interact with common databases (we are using MySQL) and the LDAP function it is easy to install and to use. 
We have create several ticket types and it is easy to configurate meaningful content forms through the way agilo handled database attributes.
All teammember like the "Kanban-Cards" and in this way we can easily live the agile scrum methods. Also teammember which are not involved in software processes like the tool to coordinate their daily work. We thing agilo for scrum was a very good choice and now another team on our university is starting to use it.
Congratulation for this tool!

</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 04:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/163</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/163</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for Scrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Michael  Hilse</dc:creator>
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      <title>MyStatus</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 00:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/162</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/162</guid>
      <dc:subject>Yodiz</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Guillermo Nanni</dc:creator>
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      <title>IT Project Manager</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/161</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/161</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agile Tracking Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Neil Joubert</dc:creator>
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      <title>Manager</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 03:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/160</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/160</guid>
      <dc:subject>Timebox</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Martin Han</dc:creator>
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      <title>good</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/159</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/159</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>oh jong beop</dc:creator>
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      <title>ì‹¤ìš©ì„± í‰ê°€</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/158</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/158</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumHalf</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>oh jong beop</dc:creator>
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      <title>Product Consultant</title>
      <description>It's helpful and pretty insightful</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/157</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/157</guid>
      <dc:subject>WorkEngine</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Riju Bhatacharya</dc:creator>
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      <title>programmer</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/156</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/156</guid>
      <dc:subject>Sprintometer Pro v6.50</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Riahi Majdi</dc:creator>
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      <title>tinyPM - A Big Assist from a tiny Project Management Tool</title>
      <description>TinyPM is an intuitive, stabile product for agile management of software development. Through user stories, task assignments and profiles of progress and other features it really gets the job done. I immediately implemented it after installation to support our first agile approach to a project. It kept us on-time by helping to define user stories and define and assign tasks. Its super easy to see the team's progress visually on login and also super easy to configure. +1</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/155</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/155</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Wendy Bossons</dc:creator>
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      <title>HisTimao</title>
      <description>Projeto para criar um app para iphone e iPad, listando ao mÃ­nimo uma escalaÃ§Ã£o do Corinthians a cada ano</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/154</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/154</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for Scrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ederson  Lima</dc:creator>
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      <title>Awesomeness!</title>
      <description>I am Scrummaster of distribute team in russia and austria.

This is what we wanted - is simple to work with, fast, on the web. Has a lot of functions, but in the backyard. Helps a lot to focus on important things, I like clear look. Maybe would also use it for co-located team, is better than paper, if you ask me.

Signed up to pro after a few days evaluation!</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/153</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/153</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for Scrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Markov Chainey</dc:creator>
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      <title>Really interesting</title>
      <description>As a member of a distributed scrum team, I have found this tool really valuable. It updates the scrum board on the fly without the need to refresh the browser so everybody in the team can be on the same page. The workflow is intuitive and the I've found the burndown chart really well done. One of my major concern was the performance of the backlog, but this has been improved a lot in the last few weeks. The support has been great so far with some issues a few of us in the team had. This was basically a browser compatibility issue that's been fixed in less than a day. Great tool!
</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/152</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/152</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for Scrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Alessandra Cice</dc:creator>
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      <title>Tool Review</title>
      <description>Here's a well written review.

http://www.dreamsimplicity.com/saas-blog/business-application-review-project-management-software-planbox.html

Great product for all types of Projects.  A+++++</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/151</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/151</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Randy Mark</dc:creator>
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      <title>Review</title>
      <description>Thorough Review</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/150</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/150</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Girish  Deshpande</dc:creator>
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      <title>Review</title>
      <description>The tool needs to be reviewed thoroughly.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/149</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/149</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Girish  Deshpande</dc:creator>
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      <title>Very good SCRUM support for distributed student teams</title>
      <description>We are using Agilo Pro for several student projects with IT background. As Trac systems are one of the basic tools in our student projects we are very glad to have a plugin for SCRUM methodologies which was very easy to integrate in our given system architecture. Our student teams are very heterogeneous concerning their semester or their place of residence. Moreover, they are working to finance their academic studies. So they often do not work at the same site and need to have online access to SCRUM results produced during their weekly meetings. By using Agilo Pro we are now able to solve this problem thoroughly. Our students have become familiar with the tool very fast due to the easy to use and self-explanatory Trac-based user interface. As studentsâ€™ feedback was rather positive, we are willing to use Agilo Pro in various future student projects.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/148</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/148</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Nina Bougatf</dc:creator>
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      <title>First choice to manage agile projects</title>
      <description>At Lusini.de, we develop and operate one of the largest B2B e-Commerce platforms in Germany, aimed for the hospitality industry. 

When we started development in early 2010, TinyPM emerged as clear winner from an extensive evaluation of available agile tools. We were managing our huge backlog using the free version and only recently switched to the commercial product in order to use TinyPM for our whole organization.

We've liked TinyPM from day one for it's simplicity, feature set, polished user interface, and the resulting high productivity. Especially the integration for Mercurial and the support for Trac Wiki Syntax is neat and allows us to create a clean and simple environment, as we use Trac a lot. The nifty sandbox feature allowed us to open our backlog to the whole organization, everyone is actively encouraged to 'sandbox' his or her ideas.

TinyPM has proven productive, fast and stable, even with thousands of User Stories in a single Project. I can highly recommend TinyPM, it is my first choice to manage agile projects.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 05:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/147</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/147</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Karl Pitrich</dc:creator>
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      <title>BOM</title>
      <description>Bom</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/146</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/146</guid>
      <dc:subject>pmScrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Israel Mesquita</dc:creator>
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      <title>a</title>
      <description>a</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/145</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/145</guid>
      <dc:subject>pmScrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Le Tran</dc:creator>
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      <title>a</title>
      <description>ads</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/144</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/144</guid>
      <dc:subject>pmScrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Le Tran</dc:creator>
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      <title>VP Product &amp; Marketing</title>
      <description>What's very interesting about Planbox is that any type of team can use it. It's great for development teams, but also very useful for agencies and any type of small team who wishes to be more agile in their way of working.
Planbox does not impose a agile method, but any agile method, such as Scrum, can be practiced with Planbox. The tool also allows for great flexibility in order for teams to get more efficient.
I use it to manage my work and all the things I need to do outside of work. Since I've been using this great tool, nothing ever falls out of the cracks and things get done on time.
</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/143</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/143</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Magali Janvier</dc:creator>
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      <title>a</title>
      <description>a</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/142</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/142</guid>
      <dc:subject>pmScrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Moises Cruz</dc:creator>
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      <title>AGILE</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/141</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/141</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumPad</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Orion eSolutions</dc:creator>
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      <title>OPINIÃƒO</title>
      <description>BOM</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/140</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/140</guid>
      <dc:subject>Scrum for Team System</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Fabiola Vieira</dc:creator>
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      <title>This is the best tool to start your agile journey</title>
      <description>We move into agile methodologies in the last year or so. 
The first issue to solve was the tool to adopt. 
I already had experience in other tools, but I knew what the teams here needed to start to swim in the agile ocean: Simplicity, Clearness and Reliability. 
I found all this in TinyPM.





</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 03:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/139</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/139</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>marco castigliego</dc:creator>
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      <title>Very well thought out planning tool for small to medium sized teams</title>
      <description>Although it lacks great documentation gathering features and traditional requirement document management PlanBox is second to none on its ease of use around resource planning, burn-down tracking and time management.

It takes a bit to figure out the difference between each area of the app, so watch the videos and read the docs, once you get it, its magic.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/138</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/138</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Alan Wizemann</dc:creator>
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      <title>Loving it</title>
      <description>We recently transitioned all of our projects from Pivotal Tracker to Planbox and have been very happy so far. The Planbox team has been incredibly responsive and appear to be working hard to perfect their product and add new features. Looking forward to watching Planbox evolve.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/137</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/137</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Joshua Fialkoff</dc:creator>
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      <title>superb tool for group project management</title>
      <description>If you are looking for an agile, web based project tracker, planbox is currently the best.  It's reliable, flexible and easy to use, and the devs are amazingly responsive and helpful.  I tried pivotal tracker before switching to planbox- planbox's interface and workflow just feels better.

Do yourself (and your team) a favor and give planbox a try.

</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/136</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/136</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Nick M</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great project management tool</title>
      <description>Planbox is a great agile tool and let's you organize and prioritize your work with just a few mouse clicks. I recommend this to anyone who is looking for an online management tool for their projects!</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/135</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/135</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>J Parillo</dc:creator>
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      <title>Excellent and flexible project management</title>
      <description>Our team uses Planbox every day to manage our projects. It's a great product/service without any hassle. We use it between project managers, designers and developers in the office and off-site as well. The user interface is quite intuitive and logical so you don't have to learn it. Just start using it and everything will be there for you. Projects, initiatives, tasks, files and comments are just a few clicks away. The best thing is that you don't have to configure every detail, it is not bloated and just does the job. The Planbox team is devoted, listens to feature request and very flexible. Planbox makes our development more agile, our workflow smoother and our life easier.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/134</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/134</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>David Szilagyi</dc:creator>
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      <title>Using Planbox as a full management tool for developers and other teams</title>
      <description>A few months ago we committed to our development team that we would implement a hybrid-scrum system within our company to help us better manage projects.  We converted from basically an issue tracking-centric approach that was using Jira to Planbox.  We chose planbox because of the simplicity and user friendly interface.  The basic routine is that we use the (backlog / current / next) item system and iterations in a weekly meeting on screen and screenshare with local and remote members.  During the week, all members sync, and then go off to do their work. They use Planbox to coordinate and as a central information clearinghouse.  Because it is so simple, everyone is actually using it, and little training is required.  Our system is not perfect, but it is much better than any alternative that we have tried. People are actually using it, and seeing benefit, so we count it as a huge success.  We subsequently expanded using Planbox from only development team to the production and admin teams also.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/133</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/133</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Michael Jennison</dc:creator>
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      <title>An Agile tool for Agile projects</title>
      <description>Planbox is a true Agile tool : lightweight, simple, easy to use, efficient, straight to the point. Everythig is right there or a few clicks away. It allows us to manage our projects, instead of managing project management.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/132</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/132</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Simon BÃ©langer</dc:creator>
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      <title>A user-friendly system</title>
      <description>Planbox has really helped our small team work together as one. With offices in both Montreal and Toronto we found it difficult to stay on top of all projects, but using Planbox made things easier and was and still is a great solution! Furthermore, the support team at Planbox is great, they are constantly modifying their system to suit the needs of our business! Everyone at our company has been very happy with our Planbox experience.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/131</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/131</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Katie Knopp</dc:creator>
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      <title>A lightweight Agile management tool</title>
      <description>We started using Planbox to management our projects at CakeMail about 1 year ago. I was really impressed to see the adoption from our development team. Everyone were using it and they were up and running with the tool in no time. Planbox is not the typical management software. It's lightweight yet it has all the features a project manager needs. And, because it's simple, everyone on the development team enjoy using it!</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/130</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/130</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Vincent Lamanna</dc:creator>
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      <title>Simple and easy to use</title>
      <description>I've used Basecamp, Fogbugz, JIRA/Confluence in the past, and have now moved to Planbox for tracking my work.

Planbox is lightweight and simple to use, and it fits with how I work. And I know the development team is responsive if I need training or questions. I would definitely recommend this app if you use SCRUM, like to easily collaborate with teammates and like using a single dashboard that's flexible yet full-featured. Also check out Pivotal Tracker.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/129</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/129</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Al Mtl</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great Agile Mgmt tool</title>
      <description>This product has really helped the productivity of our team. 

Everyone is just more in synced,   I strongly recommend Planbox for any developing team.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/128</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/128</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ben Arch</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great Agile Project Management Tool!</title>
      <description>Planbox is a great product that we use to manage all phases of the development of our web-apps - using Agile methods.

It's intuitive, powerful and has all the features we needed. We looked at a lot of tools before choosing this one and I highly recommend it.

</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/127</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/127</guid>
      <dc:subject>Planbox Agile Tool</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Alex Gauthier</dc:creator>
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      <title>Ontime struggles with volume and remote connections</title>
      <description>We use OnTime at out company for almost a year now - it has a good workflow environment but be warned that it does not scale well at all. We currently have 35 licenses with only 10 to 15 users online at any one time and it struggles.

Also be careful of the sales pitch for using the web or "remote" servers for distributed environments - it works fine with the demo/eval database but slows to a crawl once you start getting a decent amount of items in the database. All you have to do is look at a SQL profiler and you'll see the number of calls made to the DB.

If you profile the web services you'll also see that the web and remote environments have not been optimized at all to batch calls, so as soon as you move to an environment where there is any kind of communication latency (we have users in Singapore and the US connecting to servers in London) it crawls.

Axosoft's support has been less than helpful on this - they strangely do not view these as bugs and instead view this as something we should expect in these environments. We have contacted their support over a number of other things as well and it is surprising how poor it is.

Axosoft's excuse is that we should have found these things out in the eval period, but I don't know how they expected us to scale the data to production environment levels within a 30 day eval period...

We have been forced to revert to using the WinForm client over Citrix for our distributed teams.

Overall - it is a nice application if you have a small team in a single location. But if you have larger teams or people spread out in multiple locations I would avoid it at all costs. 

After only a year in use here we are considering a move to Gemini or Jira which would mean a huge waste of $$ and time on our part, but I guess it is just a matter of "live and learn"!
</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/126</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/126</guid>
      <dc:subject>OnTime</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Bryan Dyck</dc:creator>
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      <title>Kunagi - we use it</title>
      <description>I use kunagi from begining of 2011. At first I used it to internal projects now it is also used in our company in commercial projects with success. We have tried other products like versionOne (very heavy, not intuitive and slow interface, lots of popups) and other heavy applications - but we have found Kunagi to be most simple, fast and effective Scrum focused tool. I like it most for intuitive user interface and SCRUM support. Kunagi helps much in team member collaboration with:
- comments mechanism - which is enabled for all managed elements (i.e. story, task, issue, idea, bug, sprint, release, quality etc)
- live chat
- forum, wiki
- calendar with possibility to set events and automatic start/end of sprints
- RSS notifiers for events
- great dashboard with information about who is working od what, last events, next work for each SCRUM role... 
- great impediments mechanism
- mechanism of themes (tags) for groupping purposes.

Interface has some drag and drop elements (in backlogs, whiteboard) which is nice
Input in most cases is autosubmit, with no popups
Interface is autorefreshable - after other user changes they are immidiately visible to others   without any hand work.
Kunagi has support for all SCRUM development phases (planning, doing, review, retrospective) and help to have real focus on work.
It has nice find text box which finds 
It is free and opensource - so if one wants to - can easy develop custom features (GWT).
Kunagi is WEB 2 application - users can send feedback (bugs reports or features requests) immediatelly from application. Kunagi team response is fast - they manage Kunagi project with Kunagi - so they use it continuosly. Development process is very transparent.
You can even generate your project site with development progress and other important information.
So these were beautilfull pages of Kunagi.
Now very few things that I do not like in Kunagi.
It has still problems with stability - sometimes small bugs occurs (hopefully there is automatic error handler which restart session). As I know Kunagi team is working on stability and it is high priority for them.
Lack of sorting and filtering (only product backlog can be filtered)
Lack of real splitting stories with estimation handling.
Kunagi is sometimes to much SCRUM pure and team is quite resist to add some features which do not fit their idea of Kunagi. So when your project is not developed in pure SCRUM you will lack of features which takes into consideration all project scope, i.e. product burndown/up chart, or product backlog done work (only current sprint work done is shown, and historic sprint PDF reports).
Nevertheless as I said we use Kunagi with success and we really like this tool. We have used it in teams not greater than 6-7 members. I can with no doubt recommend this product.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/125</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/125</guid>
      <dc:subject>Kunagi</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Krzysztof Karnaszewski</dc:creator>
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      <title>Good flexible product</title>
      <description>Mingle has a highly configurable tool. This can make it a little daunting to start with.

Starting with a really simple design and as few different properties as possible is a good starting point -you can always add complexity later. 

I have run both complex and simple projects in Mingle and have always found a way to configure it to support the way I want to .work.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/124</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/124</guid>
      <dc:subject>Mingle</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Brett Ansley</dc:creator>
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      <title>Vehicular Communication Project at Technische UniversitÃ¤t Berlin and Fraunhofer FOKUS</title>
      <description>We are using tinyPM for a while now, in a project with students from Technische UniversitÃ¤t Berlin. Due to the mixed structure of our team we only apply a light variant of the SCRUM method. So tinyPM gives us the flexibility to use our needed set of features, still with a comfortable way of editing. We also tried other tools, like a SCRUM plugin for Trac. But these tools tied us to strong to a certain workflow. Our favorite features of tinyPM are the multi-user assignment to one task and the upgrading of tasks to user stories. A further feature we want to try in the next future is the history plugin to monitor our SVN versioning.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/123</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/123</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Robert Protzmann</dc:creator>
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      <title>manager</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 05:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/122</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/122</guid>
      <dc:subject>Redmine Backlogs</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>alhadi arnaoot</dc:creator>
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      <title>System</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/121</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/121</guid>
      <dc:subject>iMeta Agility</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Juan Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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      <title>Proyecto Costes</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/120</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/120</guid>
      <dc:subject>AgileWRAP (WoodRanch Agile Projects)</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Jesus Jimenez</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great Product!</title>
      <description>Loved it!  Met all of our needs.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/119</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/119</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDo</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Jess Luks</dc:creator>
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      <title>No longer available</title>
      <description>This product is no longer available from iMeta</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/118</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/118</guid>
      <dc:subject>iMeta Agility</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Chris Moore</dc:creator>
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      <title>Not entirely free - and the free part is lacking some key features</title>
      <description>The description here isn't quite accurate.  It's not entirely free, there are a variety of "plans."  The "free plan" has limited functionality.  You have to pay a fee to get all of the features.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/117</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/117</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDo</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Chris Moore</dc:creator>
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      <title>Qualquer</title>
      <description>teste</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/116</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/116</guid>
      <dc:subject>TeamPulse</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Anderson Luis Ribeiro</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great Product</title>
      <description>Since we adopted Tiny PM it has really helped with our tracking and management of the multiple project and iterations that we handle internally. All in all a very good and simple to use product. RIP Post-it notes!

</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/115</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/115</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Matt Aspinal</dc:creator>
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      <title>Highly recommended</title>
      <description>Strong product, if a little pricey.  Usable in almost any environment.  Definitely like the API support.  Didn't like the Admin capabilities, although they are getting better.  Could use a more granular permission model for the Agile configuration. </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/114</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/114</guid>
      <dc:subject>Rally Enterprise Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Chuck Bedekovich</dc:creator>
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      <title>Epiphany</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/113</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/113</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDo</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Mauricio Cajas</dc:creator>
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      <title>TinyPM Improved group communication - Mark Kopec</title>
      <description>I'm a Team Manager in a company of about 30 people.  

Every tool has it's strength. I've evaluated almost every PM tool out there: ScrumWorks, JIRA, MS Project, Pivotal Tracker, Rally. Each tool has a different strength.  Most importantly for us was the communication and collaboration aspect.

Lots of companies use a whiteboard and sticky notes in conjunction with some "other tools".  In this modern day of technology why are we using old fashioned tools like this when this can be digitized?

Esentially we project TinyPM on a wall and use the taskboard view most frequently.

At the heart of TinyPM is a TaskBoard that is essentially a virtualized whiteboard + sticky notes. This is all captured electronically in a DB that we can query to mine some powerful information.  We can control how often we back up and keep available that resource.

The tool can still use more improvement to satisfy more of our company needs.  That being said, we are still committed to the product.  Each release I've seen TinyPM get better and better.  The flexibility of having a DB centric model that we actually have access to gives it a huge edge over the other competitors.

For any process a company tries to implement there needs to be a tool to support it.   This tool certainly did it for us

We always hear the same thing from stakeholders when things don't go as planned: "We trust the dev team, but why are we behind, when can we release, what's blocking us"

The transparency and the ability to inspect progress as a group that the taskboard provides is tremendous. A lot of other tools seem to be oriented towards a single individual, not so much a group inspecting the progress day-to-day.


Some things I'm looking forward to seeing from TinyPM in the future:

- Ability to switch users associated with a task "on the fly", especially useful during daily standups when communicating our tasks for the day
- Improved burndown sprint and release burndown charts
- Improved release view so that I can incorporate multi projects for a release
- Improved performance dragging tasks 
- Ability to default to the taskboard when swapping between projects

I would increase the rating to 10, if it had those improvements.

-Mark

</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/109</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/109</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Mark Kopec</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>The product is free (opensource)</title>
      <description>I can guarantee that the XPTrackerPlugin for TWiki is completely free and GPL, I was it last maintainer. TWiki itself has two products, the Open Source community one and the commercial one. The commercial version is the same as the community one with sugar coat and some added applications.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/108</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/108</guid>
      <dc:subject>TWiki/ XPTrackerPlugin</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Rafael Alvarez</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>priema sangre</title>
      <description>xcvxxc</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/107</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/107</guid>
      <dc:subject>Kunagi</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Fernando Cisternas</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Easy to use, Powerful toolset. </title>
      <description>I am been using AgileWRAP for last 6 months. It is very easy to use and intuitive. Planning is very powerful. It is very well designed so that I can get work done with minimum effort and time.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/106</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/106</guid>
      <dc:subject>AgileWRAP (WoodRanch Agile Projects)</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ron Baron</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Review XPTrackerPlugin</title>
      <description>would to utilize to manage SCRUM</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/105</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/105</guid>
      <dc:subject>TWiki/ XPTrackerPlugin</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Unknown Unknown</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>RedMine</title>
      <description>hayd ay</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/104</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/104</guid>
      <dc:subject>Redmine Backlogs</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>cao khanh</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Good product</title>
      <description>Easy to use, flexible to extend ( custom tickets for epic, own fields etc)
Usability have some issues ( e.g. too much clicking) other vice nice and stable product. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/103</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/103</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Jukka-Pekka Sarjanen</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>deneme</title>
      <description>ddadsdsa</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/102</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/102</guid>
      <dc:subject>Kunagi</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>ersin kaya</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Awesome Software</title>
      <description>We are using this software to implement the SCRUM metodology in our university project, by now, we're fully satisfied with it, and with the 5* support we get from agilo, it couldn't be better !

We fully recommend it.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/101</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/101</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>silvio fernandes</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>eWorld project of the Hasso-Plattner Institute uses tinyPM successfully</title>
      <description>Really nice tool to manage small and medium software projects using the SCRUM method</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/100</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/100</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Bjoern Schuenemann</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Seccessfully used in action.</title>
      <description>I used rally for a scrum-based project with a team of 5.

It was generally good for keeping track of stories and has an exceleent drag &amp; drop fucntion to move stories from backlog to iteration and vica versa.  Can be slow.  Editing and viewing stories is relatively easy but printing was a problem.  We had to export to Excel and manipulate the columns to get printable information - V hard to get everything without it being a very long story!  There is alot of functionality around hours and tracking which might be useful on a big project but was way too much of an overhead so we stopped doing it within a week.

We were using the community edition which was perfect for the small team plus a couple of key users.  Having used it in anger, I would hesitate to recommend it as it is not very intuitive and seemed to have a few flaws, but these seem to be present in most of the other tools I have looked at and it is free, so does the job well enough!
</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/99</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/99</guid>
      <dc:subject>Rally Community Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ceedee Doyle</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>EASY! and great support</title>
      <description>I have reviewed a number of tools in detail for clients and internal use.  TinyPM has a great look and feel.  It is SCRUM-based so works in iterations and has a drag-and-drop taskboard.

It does nearly everything we wanted, and the one thing that wasn't there I put on the 'feedback' section and I can see it is underway in development for the next release.  Amazing support from these guys too - emails are answered overnight (which is understandable as we're on the other side of the world!).

Thoroughly recommended for any Agile Scrum-based project.
</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/98</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/98</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ceedee Doyle</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>what about the basics</title>
      <description>I was reviewing a number of tools and this one didn't even pass the starting gate because it requires a Postgress or Oracle database before you can load it.  that means I couldn't even evaluate it!

In many environments staff can not install applications without rigorous permissions so this tool will not be an option.
</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/97</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/97</guid>
      <dc:subject>Mingle</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ceedee Doyle</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Simpy good software</title>
      <description>Compelling piece of software. Agilers have succeeded where many have failed. 
We've been searching for an Agile tool for a while and found none better to suit our needs (I'm definitely not saying that none exist).
We have a Committee of Product Owners; dev teams distributed on multiple locations and essentially had to replace the whiteboard with some sort of online collaboration. If you know developers, you know that they tend to take any "management" software which they need to update as redundant and treat it as excessive work. With TinyPM, we've taken our collaboration online with least possible amount of "redundancy".</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/96</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/96</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Igor Cenar</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>DOS-based interface, Woh!</title>
      <description>I reviewed a 6 tools for a client project.  TRAC has very low usability, it is a text based UI.  It has great flexibility for coders but no good for anyone who is visual or trying to communicate to an entire team, not just the geeks.

I would never recommend this for any client project for that reason.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/95</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/95</guid>
      <dc:subject>Trac Project</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ceedee Doyle</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Very strong project planning part</title>
      <description>in-Step has a really very  strong project planning part which helps a lot to the product owner. Useful it's also the grafical requirement modelling with objectiFinside. A lot of good templates for documentation and reporting make this tool strong.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/94</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/94</guid>
      <dc:subject>in-StepÂ® Scrum Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Beat Sigerist</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Very useful tool</title>
      <description>Good fuctionality and nice user interface. It's a recommendable tool for Scrum projects.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/93</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/93</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Beat Sigerist</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Great opensource product worthy of consideration as an Agile Scrum tool. </title>
      <description>Redmine (currently at release 1.0.2) as a collaboration tool is used by many opensource projects, for maintaining support forums, file repositories, bug tracker and wiki for projects. In addition there is a calendar and gantt charts, for tracking time. 

Recently the Backlogs plugin (currently at release 0.3.1) has received a lot of attention. Can easily create storyboards, and tasks. Monitor progress, and easily move tasks between stories and states. Can print stories and tasks, for displaying on the public storyboard. 

This was a relatively painless exercise to install and setup on a hosted Linux server.  For an opensource product, this shows a lot of maturity.  

BTW I have no affiliation with the product developers. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 07:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/92</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/92</guid>
      <dc:subject>Redmine Backlogs</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Michael Brennan</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>w</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/91</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/91</guid>
      <dc:subject>FireScrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>gcm gcm</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Vista</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/90</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/90</guid>
      <dc:subject>VisionProject</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>gcm gcm</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>i went to try this</title>
      <description>i went to try this</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/89</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/89</guid>
      <dc:subject>Redmine Backlogs</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>tong wei</dc:creator>
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      <title>Igor Seliakov</title>
      <description>I've looked through many Scrum tools and tinyPM is the one I would recommend to everyone. It is very easy to start and has an extremely friendly and clear user interface. What is also important support team responds very quickly in case you have any problems. tinyPM is growing very fast and new features are being introduced frequently.

</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/88</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/88</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Igor Seliakov</dc:creator>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Drag-and-drop</title>
      <description>I have been using VisionProject for more than a year now and have been quite frustrated that there were no drag-and-drop for prioritizing between issues. This has now been added in the release that came the other day and it works beautifully.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/87</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/87</guid>
      <dc:subject>VisionProject</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Jonathan Gustafsson</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Easy to use</title>
      <description>Using it as project management system in our development department. We are working with scrum  and are really happy with how it works. Easy to follow with the burn-down charts and the kanban-board (we use that as more of a planning board) as well.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/86</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/86</guid>
      <dc:subject>VisionProject</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Martin Andersson</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Using Helpdesk module</title>
      <description>I am using the Helpdesk module in our company. We are working with ITIL and the processes Service Desk, Incident, Change and Problem. We are really happy with how VisionProject works for our needs. Something that also works fine is the customer portal, where the customers can follow what is happening for their issues and also are able to put in information.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/85</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/85</guid>
      <dc:subject>VisionProject</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Matthew Vincenti</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>A lot of functionality with a good User Interface</title>
      <description>I have been using VisionProject for 1 year and am really happy with it. The best part is that it is really easy to use and that they are releasing around 6 updates every year. Somehow it seems that the updates are all pointed towards the work I am doing, because I always get so happy with the new functionality.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/84</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/84</guid>
      <dc:subject>VisionProject</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Yvonne Karlsson</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>The only complete software for Project Management, Document Management, Helpdesk and Time Reporting - all in one</title>
      <description>After evaluating a lot of Project Management Tools we finally found VisionProject. It wasn't easy to find in the jungle of a lot of systems. But after evaluating it, there was really no competition. 
We installed it 6 months ago and have been using it all over the organisation and also with the built-in portal towards our customers. 
The problem we had in finding a good system was that we wanted to use it in a lot of different areas and therefore needed a lot of functionality. Some systems had this, but they were really hard to work with. 
VisionProject was the only system with the user experience in focus. Of course it has some weaknesses, as any system, but the ease of work in the system, having everybody understanding how to work with it, it really works perfect for us. 
Also to add as a big plus for them is the newly implemented drag-and-drop feature. This really made it much easier to prioritize the items.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/83</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/83</guid>
      <dc:subject>VisionProject</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Matpro Matpro</dc:creator>
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      <title>An excellent product with great support</title>
      <description>This is an excellent product for small to medium agile projects. As our team has evolved (splitting locations, adapting to home working) this product has slotted in and replaced our home-built tools. It has supported our Scrum processes, easing some of the admin burden and giving us some simple-to-use tools to manage our iterations.

We had some problems getting parts of the system to work, but the support we received from the TinyPM team was outstanding. I'd recommend this product to anyone thinking of moving away from paper and spreadsheets, or just trying to simplify the governance of an Agile project.
</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/82</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/82</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>David Anderson</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Very good tool</title>
      <description>After evaluating quite a lot of different agile-project-management tools, we finally settled with TinyPM, and I must say that we're very happy with our choice. I does exactly what it's supposed to do, and does it well. We've quickly switched all of our projects to use it. One big advantage is that it's easy-to-use both for the developers and the project/business owners, who aren't necessarily very tech and agile-aware.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 01:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/81</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/81</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Adam Warski</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Sudheer</title>
      <description>Very user friendly and the pace at which you can develop products the agile way with a very very intutitive user interface is great. Impressed.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/80</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/80</guid>
      <dc:subject>OnTime</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Sudheer Raju</dc:creator>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Great Tool</title>
      <description>Agilo satisfies our needs perfectly. It's supporting Subversion + Track + Sprint Backlogs + Whiteboard. We are using Agilo for off-shored teams and it keeps us in sync.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/79</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/79</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Leandro Garcia</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Great tool to support Scrum</title>
      <description>I used Agilo for 2 years now in a productive environment and I have to say that this tool offers a great support for Scrum especially in distributed environments. Every Scrum role is well covered. Whatever a Product Owner needs to do in Scrum - it's possible. Whatever a team needs to do in Scrum - it's possible. And for the few things a Scrum Master needs electronic support for - this is also possible. And one of the highlights of Agilo is the interactive whiteboard - check it out, you'll really like this one :o)

Agilo is based on Trac so it provide every feature from Trac as well. Only the usage of some plugins is not working...but the most valuable ones. And Agilo is shipped with a better UI than Trac ;o) Give it a try - you won't be sorry.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 01:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/78</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/78</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Bjoern Jensen</dc:creator>
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      <title>Excellent lean approach</title>
      <description>I can only highly recommend this product. It has exactly the right features you need to run a lean project. </description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 07:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/77</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/77</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Piotr Zolnierek</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>review</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 14:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/76</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/76</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumNinja</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>German Braun</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great Product and very helpful for the Scrum Process</title>
      <description>I'm using Agilo Pro for Scrum in an Open Source Project (http://www.oksimo.org) and also at the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt am Main, in research projects together with students, professors and laboratory engineers. The feedback from them is very positive. This tool supports excellent the Development Process of Scrum. Agilo for Scrum is well documented in the online help. It's easy to install and the administration interface is good, and almost everything can be configured to individual flavor. The extend functionality of the Pro Version (like the Whiteboard) are very helpful to understand the Scrum Process and working with the Sprint in the Sprint planning and daily scrums. The new tickets, like User Story, have reasonable properties and are very useful to describe an requirement in the Scrum Process. The Product and Sprint Backlogs has nice different views of the acual development state and a good overview to their tickets with good sorting possibilities. With these views, it is very easy to handle the project management process with Scrum. The Burndown Chart and other graphical outputs, which displays the development state are excellent, but I didn't found how to configure the dashboard and these views. During the complete setup, configuration and handling I hadn't any problems and found no bugs. 

A nice to have feature will be the export of tickets to csv files or a complete backup solution for a whole project. I didn't figure out how to delete a ticket, or why this feature is not implemented yet. Only delete tickets from csv files is supported. But if I have no export possibility that feature is not very usable for me. But I think these requirements are issues for trac.

I have also experiences in working with other tools like Mingle from Thoughtworks, but finally I prefer to work with Agilo fro Scrum!

Great commendation to the the agilo42 team! These acknowledgments goes also to the Trac development team, which do a great work to build the basic system for Agilo.

Thanks a lot for that tool!</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 10:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/75</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/75</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Volker Lerch</dc:creator>
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      <title>Used in open source project</title>
      <description>I'm using Agilo for both, a charity project (http://www.healthcare-it-africa.org) and for student projects. Agilo helps us to structure our projects very easily and trac progress. it is also perfect for teaching students the basics of agile development. It also is THE tool for everyone who has read the bood "Head First - Software Engineering", since the white board is exactly reflecting the images in the book.
It took me only a bit to install and figure out how to support multiple-projects. But now it works like a champ!</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 12:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/68</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/68</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Christian Johner</dc:creator>
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      <title>Good comprehensive tool for remote agile teams</title>
      <description>Highly recommended (especially the pro version, which includes the drag-and-drop whiteboard. Loved it!)

The platform provides all the functionality you would expect from an online collaboration tool for agile development. The tool supports multiple backlogs each with multiple teams, provides a basis for online team collaboration, and delivers insight into the effectiveness of the agile delivery process through tracking changes across different development sprints, releases and even teams. 

Agilo has proven to be an excellent online tool for sharing information between remote scrum teams, and providing a single platform for coordinating multiple scrum teams across multiple locations.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 08:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/67</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/67</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Dave Sharrock</dc:creator>
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      <title>CUD</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/65</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/65</guid>
      <dc:subject>Scrumy</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>nawa bedda</dc:creator>
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      <title>My first impression, the hosted configuration is too complex</title>
      <description>Summary:
I chose this product because of reviews by others and the hosted version is free with less than five users. I have a Mac development shop but run Microsoft Windows in VMWare Fusion. I found the setup to be too complex for a hosted product because the user has to configure a database connection to a SQL Server. I expected a hosted version to not expose the datastore details to a user. In any case, after a software upgrade released today, 4 Apr, 2010, Iâ€™m unable to connect to the application database.

Chronology:
On 3 Apr, 2010, I first installed the product prerequisite: NET Framework 3.5. Then installed ScrumDesk using a link in my registration email. I entered the SQL Server host info, username and password, logged in as the administrator and added users. 

Then I setup a another user on a different computer. To do this correctly the administrator needs to remember to send the database connection info to the user using a button in the user interface. I installed an instance of ScrumDesk on the userâ€™s computer and loaded the database connection info as described in their instructions.

After setting up a few users, I transcribed my user stories from sticky notes. Incidentally, I like the backlog view, it's a nice emulation of a wall of notes. I closed the app and finished for the day.

On 4 Apr, 2010, I opened the application and updated to a new version released on the same day. After the update, I was no longer able to login to the hosted version because of a SQL Server connection error. I hope I havenâ€™t lost my work.

Anyway, in my opinion, I think this could be a much better product if the hosted version removed the direct database connectivity dependency and refactored the user interface using something like Adobe Air or HTML 5.

Conclusion:
Given my experience, I would not recommend the current version of the product to a friend or colleague.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/64</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/64</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>John Boyer</dc:creator>
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      <title>Use it!</title>
      <description>Very easy tool not just for management of the team, but also keeping it on the best way how to implement agile and Scrum. Guys did great progress since it was published here. We run it in enterprise company in distributed environment and we really liked it.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/63</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/63</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>martin tarasoviÄ</dc:creator>
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      <title>This is a GREAT tool and worth a try! </title>
      <description>I almost didn't evaluate BrightGreen, because it didn't have any previous feedback.   I'm VERY GLAD I decided to give due diligence to my evaluation and took a look at BrightGreen.    Once you get into this tool it's very intuitive and easy to understand.    I was able to get up and running in minutes.   

They EXCEL at support and the live chat feature is phenomenal.   The product backlog and sprint planning features are very intuitive and easy to navigate.   I understand they're updating some of the charts and the wall.    
This tool is DEFINITELY worth checking out.    </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/62</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/62</guid>
      <dc:subject>Bright Green Projects</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Glorious Wright</dc:creator>
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      <title>Prueba</title>
      <description>Prueba </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/61</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/61</guid>
      <dc:subject>Scrumy</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Blanca Perez</dc:creator>
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      <title>Nealy have all features I want</title>
      <description>Frankly speaking, the look-a-feel of Banana Scrum does not look professional. The demo project also confuse people who don't understand Spanish.

However when I login the web site, I am impressed as it contains:
* Satisfaction criteria for each story.
* Customizable sprint name and number.
* Your own domain.

It has nearly every features I want, except:
* Lack of Post-it view
* No intuitive way to add/assign user when you are in splint planning:
   I know users can be added in admin, but novice user may take some time to find it.
* Web site is somewhat slow.
 
Nevertheless, Banana Scrum is one of the best free scrum sites I tested so far.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/60</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/60</guid>
      <dc:subject>Banana Scrum </dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ding-Yi Chen</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great looking and easy to use UI, but lack some feature</title>
      <description>Pro:
  Great looking and easy to use UI
  Having your own domain name
  Rate backlog items by points and values.

Con:
  No post-it view.
  Cannot find a way add tasks, thus cannot indicate the status (e.g. todo, in progress, done) of tasks.  

  </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/54</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/54</guid>
      <dc:subject>PangoScrum</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Ding-Yi Chen</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great tool</title>
      <description>We've been using tinyPM in our projects for the last 10 months. It simply does what you need for management of an agile project. Not only is the application intuitive and user-friendly, but also stable and fast. Even our client after having used the application in our project has decided to buy it.
Great job tinyPMers!</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/53</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/53</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>PaweÅ‚ LipiÅ„ski</dc:creator>
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      <title>Good Product, minor issues</title>
      <description>As I will be posting in my blog I had a little trouble with the installation, but it was trivial to fix once I found out what the trouble was. The documentation was a little lacking, from Trac and Agilo. Otherwise it worked find.

Here's the link to the trouble I had, and fixes:
http://specialbrands.net/2010/01/12/agilo-a-scrum-tool-agile-scrum/</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/52</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/52</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Daniel Crompton</dc:creator>
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      <title>Serena Agile On Demand--Easy To Get Up-And-Running, Fast!</title>
      <description>I've been using Serena AOD since an initial preview, and I've always loved it, but with the latest changes in the current release...it's great! 

In a nutshell:
The interface is easy to use and slick looking which makes it a snap to get new Agile users involved in projects.

The background:
I first used AOD to manage product marketing sprints with the product marketing team I was on. Being able to capture all items in the backlog (i.e. any idea that the field, execs, customers, etc.) provided, and then work with the team to prioritize and assign was priceless. No idea is ever lost. Plus, it is easy to show management both the work that was completed, and the work planned, and this visibility helped foster communication with the teams we were delivering content to. 

If you're sprinting, I highly recommend checking out AOD.

Tim Zonca

Certified ScrumMaster, Product Owner</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/51</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/51</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agile On Demand</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Tim Zonca</dc:creator>
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      <title>A great tool for Scrum</title>
      <description>We found this software by searching for a good Scrum tool for our project at university. Agilo for Scrum is easy to install and to setup  teams, backlogs and the user permissions. It is necessary for our project to have the possibility to change the user story points. Another great feature is the nice Whiteboard. In conclusion, a great Scrum tool!</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/50</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/50</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Markus  Keppel</dc:creator>
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      <title>A Scrum tool how it should be</title>
      <description>I liked to use the analog whiteboard, but since we are more teams those Scrum Tools are not supporting us enough. We found Agilo Pro with the interactive digital whitboard and we are really happy with it.  Agilo supports Scrum in every detail and you can see that the guys from agile42 know agile and Scrum very well.
Laura
</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/49</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/49</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Laura Prinz</dc:creator>
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      <title>Very nice all around tracking tool</title>
      <description>This is one of my two favorite story-tracking tools for non-co-located teams. Nothing beats BVCs, but if you have to use an online tool, this is one to consider.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/48</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/48</guid>
      <dc:subject>Banana Scrum </dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Paul Klipp</dc:creator>
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      <title>What missing features?</title>
      <description>Full disclosure: I am one of the developers of Agilito

@Pete Boon: I use it every day, so my experience counters yours, but if you would care to outline which pressing features you miss I'd be happy to look them over. Feel free to add feature requests at http://agilito.googlecode.com/. As the review stands, it is neither helpful nor informational, neither for us developers or for prospective users.

@UserStories: it would be great if there was a way to respond to reviews without opening a 2nd account, or at least a way to contact reviewers. I'm rating it a '5' because I can't submit a blank rating, and I don't want to unfairly skew the ratings, but I'm not going to rate my own product (which I think is the best of the open source tools available) a 1.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/47</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/47</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilito</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Emile Heyns</dc:creator>
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      <title>Review</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/46</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/46</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Pete Boon</dc:creator>
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      <title>Not mature enough </title>
      <description>Many features are missing to be useful.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/45</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/45</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilito</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Pete Boon</dc:creator>
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      <title>Agilo Online Whiteboard  - One of the best Scrum Tools</title>
      <description>We are using Agilo for Scrum since 11 iterations with many distributed teams and projects. The new online whiteboard is supporting us perfectly during the sprint planning and the daily Scrums. 
Agilo is the best Scrum Tool we found on the market.
</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/44</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/44</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Peter Stacho</dc:creator>
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      <title>Developer</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/43</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/43</guid>
      <dc:subject>in-StepÂ® Scrum Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>naveen kumar</dc:creator>
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      <title>Simply the best project management tool I've used.</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/42</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/42</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumNinja</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Rich Aston</dc:creator>
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      <title>Perfect for Off-shored teams</title>
      <description>We've been evaluating many scrum tools, but this one satisfies our needs perfectly. It's supporting both, the project management's issues as well as the developer team on a daily basis with it's integration to Subversion and Eclipse. We are using Agilo for off-shored teams and it keeps us in sync.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/41</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/41</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Jeaqn Pierre Berchez</dc:creator>
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      <title>Very useful Tool</title>
      <description>We have chosen agile42 to implement Scrum and have been very happy about the result. After we have known Scrum better, we made the decision to use the Scrum Tool Agilo for Scrum to support us on a daily basis.  Agilo helps us to handle our backlogs, requirements, user stories and tasks.

I can strongly recommend Agilo for Scrum. It supports all Scrum Roles and helps following the Scrum Process.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/40</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/40</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Andreas Bytzek</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great Product</title>
      <description>The principles of scrum are easy - using scrum is not! You cannot preach daily visability of your progress without having the right tooling. This requires burndown charts on the one hand but this is not sufficient. The right user interface to motivate your team to use and update tasks/tickets is required. The effort to care for the tickets has to be minimal for acceptance reasons. This was the main reason for us to introduce Agilo and we are really happy with the result.
</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/39</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/39</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Dirk Stueker</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great ALM for Agile teams</title>
      <description>Great application lifecycle management tool that allows Agile organizations to manage the complete process from planning, developing, testing, and deploying. 

We choose Rally's Enterprise Edition over VersionOne and XP Tracker after a thorough evaluation almost two years ago. While the products were functionally similar, my team found the Rally interface to be more intuitive and responsive. Recently updates (Rally consistently deploys every two months or so) have streamlined the GUI even further, improved overall performance, and greatly expanded test management capabilities. community-contributed plugins help integrate Rally into our development environment (VS 2008) and automated build environment (CruiseControl.Net).

Search is an opportunity for improvement -- would be very nice to have additional filtering capabilities as mentioned in an earlier review.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/38</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/38</guid>
      <dc:subject>Rally Enterprise Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Chris Babcock</dc:creator>
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      <title>Experienced CSM chooses Rally!</title>
      <description>I evaluated many products to support my Scrum focused projects and Rally was far and away the best.

It is one of the best examples of the SaaS (Software as a Service) model in action.

I don't have to worry about equipment to maintain, I simply log on to my Rally account.

Managers are blown away with the insight they get into the health of a project when they see the Rally burn down charts.

Developers are empowered when they go in to the system and update tasks they have taken on and see the progress reflected in the burn down chart.

Sprint planning and maintenance is a snap through the advanced web 2.0 interface.

My clients see the value very quickly in using the enterprise edition. It is well worth the fee.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 15:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/37</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/37</guid>
      <dc:subject>Rally Enterprise Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Micah Silverman</dc:creator>
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      <title>Clumsy, poor search</title>
      <description>The UI is clumsy, and the search is by keyword only, which means you can't quickly and easily find all unfinished stories with the string "foo". </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/36</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/36</guid>
      <dc:subject>Rally Enterprise Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Margaret Olson</dc:creator>
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      <title>The right tool for our Scrum teams</title>
      <description>We use agilo for several months now and we really like it. Agilo provides the flexibility to adapt the tool to our process, not the other way round. There a lot of small things that make Agilo really useful: For example, the ideal burndown line decreases proportional to the capacity - if 1/2 of the team are on vacation in the next week, the ideal burndown won't decrease as fast as in the other weeks where the whole team is present.

Also we can add our own ticket types+backlogs so that the Scrum Master can have his own impediment backlog.

Installation was bit tricky previously but in the latest versions, it became way easier.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 01:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/35</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/35</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Robert Jenssen</dc:creator>
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      <title>Outstanding Product</title>
      <description>VersionOne is easy to use and has so many incredible features at your fingertips, right out of the box.  The tool provides so much information by default, we haven't had a need to do any customization.  Taking advantage of the hosted model saves my company time and money in maintenance and we haven't had any issues with this arrangement.  After having personally used 2 of the major competiting tools, VersionOne is the clear winner in my mind.  I can't imagine using another tool to manage/plan/track my agile projects.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/34</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/34</guid>
      <dc:subject>VersionOne </dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Stevie Borne</dc:creator>
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      <title>å¹³å¦ä¸–ç•Œ</title>
      <description>è¯•ç”¨å·¥å…·æ¥ç®¡ç†åŸºäºŽscrumçš„é¡¹ç›®</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/33</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/33</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilito</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>zhuo bin</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great Tool To Explore the Ticketing system</title>
      <description>Hi ,

I   have been using agilo for the past 6 months. It has given more knowledge about the ticket system and agile methodology. The only one problem I have faced in this is issue in IE browsers. Other wise its a great tool to work


Regards
Vela.Velappan</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/32</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/32</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>velappan velappan</dc:creator>
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      <title>Amazing tool</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/31</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/31</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Maciej Gajek</dc:creator>
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      <title>Great visual metaphor</title>
      <description>One of the best things about Mingle is its visual metaphor.

You can set it up so that it looks just like your story wall.  Of course, you can create multiple views, so that you can view the cards in whatever ways you like, using various sorting and grouping options.

I also like that I can drag and drop a card from one column (Development) to another (Testing) and have certain triggers fire to change data. While this was lacking in early versions, it's there now and very valuable.

Overall, I find it easy to set up and configure, and easy to use.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/30</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/30</guid>
      <dc:subject>Mingle</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Steven "Doc" List</dc:creator>
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      <title>Senior Software Engineer</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/28</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/28</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Simon Wang</dc:creator>
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      <title>Combine this with Episerver's scrum dashboard and you have what you need</title>
      <description>If you're already using Team system and need a digital tool for handling your backlogs, I would recommend using Scrum for Team system. The work item definitions are clear and really useful. The help website (www.scrumforteamsystem.com) gives you all the information you need. The only thing I really missed from start was a good dashboard which visualized the sprints. By installing EPISERVER's Scrum Dashboard from Codeplex, I had what I and the team needed.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/27</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/27</guid>
      <dc:subject>Scrum for Team System</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Anna Forss</dc:creator>
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    <item>
      <title>Title tese</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/26</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/26</guid>
      <dc:subject>Scrum for Team System</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Notrevelc atsoc</dc:creator>
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      <title>Easy to Use Helpful Tool</title>
      <description>We have been using tinypm for a few months now and we really find it useful. We looked at many tools, most of which we found to be overcomplicated and irritating. Since we are trying to work in an agile as possible fashion, we were looking for an agile straightforward tool. Well, this is definitely it. We highly recommend it.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/25</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/25</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Maureen Padgett</dc:creator>
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      <title>Cool tool</title>
      <description>We have been using tinyPM as our main tool to coordinate our work on 

www.susuh.de

for more than one and a half year by nowâ€“and we neither could nor want to do without it. :)
 
As we are working in distributed locations (Berlin and Wroclaw) and using the agile development methodology at the same time, most of our work project-wise is based on tinyPM. I particularly like the possibility to set up new user-stories for discussion and estimation so easily. </description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/24</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/24</guid>
      <dc:subject>tinyPM</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Stefan Wolpers</dc:creator>
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      <title>Very nice tool</title>
      <description>KBB looked at various Scrum tools at the end of 2007 and brought in two vendors for demos and evaluation. We decided to go through a trial with V1 after which we went and acquired the product (local installation, not hosted). (We presented on this at the Agile 2008 conference; see http://www.renerosendahl.com/docs/Migrating%20From%20SharePoint%20to%20a%20Better%20Scrum%20Tool%20-%20small.pdf).

We now have about 200 users on the system and for the most part our users like it. The tool is intuitive, flexible and supports the most common (and some not so common) Scrum practices. Major new features get added every quarter and the product is actively evolving. Like every product, there are areas that are stronger than others, but overall I think this is a great tool for Agile development teams. 


</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/23</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/23</guid>
      <dc:subject>VersionOne </dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Rene Rosendahl</dc:creator>
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      <title>Simple, Useful, and Uncluttered</title>
      <description>Too many tracking tools become tracking toil.
ExplainPMT remains my favorite because it is Simple, Useful, and Uncluttered.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/22</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/22</guid>
      <dc:subject>eXPlainPMT</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Mark Windholtz</dc:creator>
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      <title>Review</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/21</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/21</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>vasundhara JM</dc:creator>
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      <title>Team Collaboration as I feel</title>
      <description>Very handy and easy to use tool which supports development needs. ScrumDesk is useful through the entire life cycle of a product. Provides all important and real-time information about your projects (progress, statistics, teams,...) on very handy dashboard. </description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/20</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/20</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Monika Kantorova</dc:creator>
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      <title>Nice and easy to use!</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/19</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/19</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Daniel Ferenc</dc:creator>
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      <title>Instant productivity</title>
      <description>I found this product by accident when looking for something to better manage our product backlog which I'd previously been doing using Excel.  The transformation was near-instant.  Even though we were mid-sprint at the time, within a morning I had entered the entire backlog into the product.  The next morning we had automated burn-down charts and management reporting on stories and project progress.  The only discipline we have had to enforce is for the team to update their progress but this is very simple using drag and drop graphical task boxes which are moved between states (not started through to done).
We opted for a local installation of the MS SQS Server database once we'd tried out the remote ASP model for performance reasons (but we are in Australia).  The application itself is .NET and has slotted into our existing SQL server Windows environment without any problems or issues.
Thoroughly recommended.
The product itself is growing all the time and the guys supporting it seem very receptive to user-suggestions for improvements or enhancements and the quality of support received to date exceeds that of the many much larger organisations I work with on a daily basis.
In short, this product gives us everything we need to manage our Scrum deliveries.  The product has some 'extra' capabilities outside formal Scrum but these don't have to be used if you don't want to use them.  (such as using phases for delivery as well as sprints).
Our business clients like the product too and we had them sitting round the same table using the online Planning Poker to plan and estimate stories for the current sprint.  We achieved a 200 story point sprint for a team of sprint in 2 hours which I just know that previously we wouldn't have been able to do.
I have not thoroughly reviewed other Scrum products but just don't feel the need to do so having used this one.  It does everything we need, it works and the people who wrote and support it are only an email away if you ever need help.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/18</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/18</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Rob Hale</dc:creator>
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      <title>Complete End to End Solution</title>
      <description>Great application, new features delivered every 6-8 weeks. Can integrate with many other applications such as Salesforce.com, JIRA, CruiseControl to name a few. Highly recommend if you have the budget. </description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/17</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/17</guid>
      <dc:subject>Rally Enterprise Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Brendan Flynn</dc:creator>
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      <title>Agilefant 1.5.2 released</title>
      <description>Hello,

Just wanted to let you know that Agilefant 1.5.2 has just been released for testing and development purposes!

Although not an official 'stabile' release, we recommend this upgrade since the improvements made (see below) - though rather small - do a lot for Agilefant's usability. Get it from the Downloads-page or test drive the Demo.

Changes from Agilefant 1.5.1:

    * Themes can now be added when creating a backlog item
    * It is now possible to save changes to a backlog item without closing it
    * Backlog items now know when they were created and by whom
    * The default timescale of the product roadmap changed to one year
    * Theme can be deleted in the edit theme tab

Best regards,

Jarno VÃ¤hÃ¤niitty
Agilefant's Business owner

P.S. Yes, I agree that my rating of Agilefant is probably biased :-)</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/16</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/16</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilefant</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Jarno VÃ¤hÃ¤niitty</dc:creator>
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      <title>A very lean tool with a bit of spice and some rough corners to smooth, but really effective!</title>
      <description>Agilo is based on Trac, which alone as an extremely wide user base, and is one of the most used ticketing system in the agile community. Agilo adds to Trac a couple of significant improvement, that alone, without even considering the specific Scrum features are worth of a look: ticket typing, csv import and ticket linking.

These three feature which deeply change the core usability of the tool, allowing to implement in a very easy and natural way, "just enough" structure on top of trac, to make it able to better support your way of working are extremely valuable. Moreover the new version of agilo 0.7 offer a set of very interesting feature specific to scrum, and still allow you to personalize almost everything, making it as lean as you like. The look &amp; feel has also greatly improved, even though there are still some rough edges, for example the ticket handling, still in the "traditional" trac way is not fitting anymore with the advanced and configurable backlog handling.

I am confident that these aspects: inline ticket creation, better drag &amp; drop support, and other "intuitive" transformations will occur pretty soon, the tool as an active community (http://groups.google.com/group/agilo) where scrum related issues and features are discussed and supported by the development team, that collaborate intensively with everyone encountering problems in the tool installation and configuration.

The tool offers some unique and handy features, that helps the team in better understanding what the status is (not only through the burndown chart) as well as speeding up some operation at specific Scrum cerimonies. As an example automatically calculating (on a set of well defined user stories and tasks, selectable by the team) the ratio of Story Points/Ideal Hours (Days) that gives the possibility to the team to have a quick check with the capacity set by individual team members and see if the initial commitment is fitting (more or less) in the team available hours. Well is a click instead of a lot of Excel work, and the results is reflected also in the burndown chart. The tool also stores metrics on the team performances, that help the team in monitoring its efficiency and historical data, and see the improvements. 

Very handy is also the Timeline view, that is enriched with informations related to Sprints and other specific Scrum cerimonies, that allows a very fast wrap up at the Retrospective, allowing the team to inspect &amp; adapt effectively.

Thanks for the great tool :-)

ANdreaT
</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/15</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/15</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Andrea Tomasini</dc:creator>
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      <title>Experience applied</title>
      <description>Agilo is a very handy tool for daily development needs. I found it useful through the entire life cycle of a product, from shaping the vision, to prioritizing requirements to creating work packages all the way down into issue tracking. The fact it is based on Trac helps in this aspect, there are a wealth of plugins to truly embed Agilo into your workflow. 

You can tell the developers have real-world experience. It is a proper "tool", not an abstract project view aimed at managers.

Highly recommended.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/14</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/14</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Garbrand van der Molen</dc:creator>
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      <title>Good tool, great service and support</title>
      <description>We have a small shop (three developers), and this software lets us get 'er done. It doesn't get in our way, and allows us to easily collaborate. We found the startup training to be excellent, particularly so because all of us were brand new to agile development. We're still not experts, but I think we have a good grasp, mostly thanks to the Rally coach who walked us through it. Highly recommend!</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/13</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/13</guid>
      <dc:subject>Rally Enterprise Edition</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Donny Jackson</dc:creator>
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      <title>Scrum tool based on real project experiences</title>
      <description>The Tool works great. It has all the features you need in a tool to support the Scrum process: 
- daily stand-up
- burn down charts
- product backlog
- sprint backlog
- etc.
A nice and very useful feature is the ability to link items together. This bi-directional traceability allows you to create useful relations between requirements and user stories, user stories and task etc.

You can see, that this tool is based on real scrum project experiences. </description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/12</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/12</guid>
      <dc:subject>Agilo for tracâ„¢</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Marion Eickmann</dc:creator>
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      <title>Mike Cohn's - Alternative Release Burndown Chart</title>
      <description>ScrumWorks provides a useful and intuitive agile management product that you should evaluate and consider before making your purchase decision.  The agile tools available on the market today do many similar things, some better than others, but ScrumWorks offers a feature that distinguishes them from the rest:  ScrumWorks appears to be one of the only, if not *the* only, product(s) to implement Mike Cohn's Alternate Release Burndown Chart.  This chart is an excellent tool for estimating and projecting the release date/range for your agile project and ScrumWorks generates it for you!

Mike Cohn - Alternative Release Burndown Chart
http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/alt-releaseburndown 

ScrumWorks - Enhanced Product Burndown
http://danube.com/docs/scrumworks/pro/latest/reports.html#prodburnenhanced</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/11</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/11</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumWorks Pro</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Brad Chinn</dc:creator>
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      <title>V1 Works Well for Distributed Teams</title>
      <description>In 2007 I evaluated multiple Scrum tools for a start-up with geographically distributed teams.  Several tools were eliminated because they could not support the concept of multiple Scrum teams.  V1 was robust, easiest to install (SaaS), and was the easiest to learn.  V1 was used successfully for multiple sprints (until the start-up went kaput).
Note that I do not work for V1.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/10</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/10</guid>
      <dc:subject>VersionOne </dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Gary Marcos</dc:creator>
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      <title>ScrumWorks Pro works well for our distributed teams</title>
      <description>We have development teams in multiple locations throughout the world and all are now successfully using ScrumWorks Pro.  The combination of ease of use and comprehensive documentation have allowed our teams to easily make full use of the product.  Our single ScrumWorks server provides more than adequate performance for these teams and is of little burden to our administrators.

Project stakeholders are able to view team progress from a single location even when those teams are distributed.  All in all, we are very happy with ScrumWorks and plan to continue to expand its use within our organization.
</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/9</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/9</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumWorks Pro</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>John Cornell</dc:creator>
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      <title>An excellent scrum project management and collaboration tool</title>
      <description>We can create product backlog, plan for sprints, track time of individual and see the burndown chart, report bugs, post message , chat online, print task card and many things with the same tool! It's really awesome.  would strongly suggest to use this tool.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/8</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/8</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumPad</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Fuad Omar</dc:creator>
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      <title>ScrumDesk rules</title>
      <description>We've been trying and using several scrum products, but this one satisfies our needs perfectly. I do not think you  will need to search another once you install ScrumDesk.

Peter.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/7</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/7</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Peter Prokopcak</dc:creator>
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      <title>A Simple Solution for Simple People</title>
      <description>We created Scrumy with the purpose of helping organize ourselves and stop the sticky notes from falling off of the wall.  After using it we realized that we had actually created something useful and we built the production version.  Everything in that version is simple, clean and made to be usable without ever being expensive.  It serves our purpose and think it will do the same for others as well.  </description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/6</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/6</guid>
      <dc:subject>Scrumy</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Robert Brend</dc:creator>
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      <title>dev</title>
      <description>I first tried Scrum Works Basic and thought the interface made sense and was easy to use. When my company was ready to commit to an agile tool, I recommended we try Pro. Everyone was able to get up to speed in a week or so and weâ€™ve never looked back. It helps new employees learn the Scrum process and, for veterans, it becomes an integrated part of the process. This is an awesome management tool.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/5</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/5</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumWorks Pro</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Chas Bailey</dc:creator>
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      <title>solid foundation for an open source tool</title>
      <description>eXPlainPMT provides the fundamentals for agile project planning. After using the product off and on for over a year, we found virtually no defects in the product. The best part is that it's open source (free!) and Ruby, and I hope to see the community contribute to the tool. The potential is absolutely there for this to be on par with high dollar agile project management products.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/3</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/3</guid>
      <dc:subject>eXPlainPMT</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Jeff Langr</dc:creator>
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      <title>Fair review from project owner</title>
      <description>I stumbled on eXPlainPMT in 2005 and began using it as a sandbox to learn rails. At the time, my role at Sabre was an agile mentor and we used a myriad of tools for managing our agile projects.  I thought eXPlainPMT could be beneficial to many of our teams who were struggling with distributed teams using excel or other types of tools.  After showing the tool to a few folks, the feedback was clear: "Its a good starting point but it doesn't do ..." My thought of course was "Yeah, but its free!" I forked the official version of eXPlainPMT and started incorporating all the requests from our teams in my spare time and the tool began filling out.  I eventually became an owner on the official version and began merging my features into the main trunk.

Sabre currently manages several hundred projects which include 10's of thousands of stories.  Are there products that do more...yup.  Are there products that are better at some pieces of functionality...yup.  eXPlainPMT is for the team who wants something lightweight, very easy to use, web based, and of course....free.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/2</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/2</guid>
      <dc:subject>eXPlainPMT</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Jake Dempsey</dc:creator>
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      <title>Awsome!</title>
      <description></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>http://userstories.com/reviews/1</link>
      <guid>http://userstories.com/reviews/1</guid>
      <dc:subject>ScrumDesk</dc:subject>
      <dc:creator>Fero Ivanic</dc:creator>
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