http://www.userstories.com/ What your site is all about. en-us 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. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:39:27 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/62 http://userstories.com/reviews/62 Bright Green Projects Glorious Wright Prueba Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:28:57 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/61 http://userstories.com/reviews/61 Scrumy Blanca Perez 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. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:46:59 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/60 http://userstories.com/reviews/60 Banana Scrum Ding-Yi Chen 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. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:12:56 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/54 http://userstories.com/reviews/54 PangoScrum Ding-Yi Chen 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! Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:48:15 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/53 http://userstories.com/reviews/53 tinyPM Paweł Lipiński 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/ Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:42:11 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/52 http://userstories.com/reviews/52 Agilo for Scrum™ Daniel Crompton 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 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:32:32 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/51 http://userstories.com/reviews/51 Agile On Demand Tim Zonca 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! Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:13:53 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/50 http://userstories.com/reviews/50 Agilo for Scrum™ Markus Keppel 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 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:09:04 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/49 http://userstories.com/reviews/49 Agilo for Scrum™ Laura Prinz 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. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:00:33 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/48 http://userstories.com/reviews/48 Banana Scrum Paul Klipp 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. Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:14:56 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/47 http://userstories.com/reviews/47 Agilito Emile Heyns Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:47:43 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/46 http://userstories.com/reviews/46 ScrumDesk Pete Boon Many features are missing to be useful. Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:28:01 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/45 http://userstories.com/reviews/45 Agilito Pete Boon 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. Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:05:38 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/44 http://userstories.com/reviews/44 Agilo for Scrum™ Peter Stacho Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:27:08 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/43 http://userstories.com/reviews/43 in-Step® Scrum Edition naveen kumar Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:22:07 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/42 http://userstories.com/reviews/42 ScrumNinja Rich Aston 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. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:36:03 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/41 http://userstories.com/reviews/41 Agilo for Scrum™ Jeaqn Pierre Berchez 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. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:18:38 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/40 http://userstories.com/reviews/40 Agilo for Scrum™ Andreas Bytzek 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. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:27:59 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/39 http://userstories.com/reviews/39 Agilo for Scrum™ Dirk Stueker 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. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:37:25 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/38 http://userstories.com/reviews/38 Rally Enterprise Edition Chris Babcock 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. Fri, 29 May 2009 15:44:23 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/37 http://userstories.com/reviews/37 Rally Enterprise Edition Micah Silverman 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". Thu, 28 May 2009 14:05:26 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/36 http://userstories.com/reviews/36 Rally Enterprise Edition Margaret Olson 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. Fri, 15 May 2009 01:47:27 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/35 http://userstories.com/reviews/35 Agilo for Scrum™ Robert Jenssen 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. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:57:25 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/34 http://userstories.com/reviews/34 V1: Agile Enterprise Stevie Borne 试用工具来管理基于scrum的项目 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:05:42 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/33 http://userstories.com/reviews/33 Agilito zhuo bin 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 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:20:01 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/32 http://userstories.com/reviews/32 Agilo for Scrum™ velappan velappan Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:33:41 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/31 http://userstories.com/reviews/31 tinyPM Maciej Gajek 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. Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:04:28 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/30 http://userstories.com/reviews/30 Mingle Steven "Doc" List Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:01:10 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/28 http://userstories.com/reviews/28 tinyPM Simon Wang 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.dom) 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. Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:33:19 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/27 http://userstories.com/reviews/27 Scrum for Team System Anna Forss Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:41:46 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/26 http://userstories.com/reviews/26 Scrum for Team System Notrevelc atsoc 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. Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:32:19 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/25 http://userstories.com/reviews/25 tinyPM Maureen Padgett 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 now–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. Sun, 11 Jan 2009 09:05:32 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/24 http://userstories.com/reviews/24 tinyPM Stefan Wolpers 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. Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:36:44 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/23 http://userstories.com/reviews/23 V1: Agile Enterprise Rene Rosendahl Too many tracking tools become tracking toil. ExplainPMT remains my favorite because it is Simple, Useful, and Uncluttered. Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:14:04 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/22 http://userstories.com/reviews/22 eXPlainPMT Mark Windholtz Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:35:33 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/21 http://userstories.com/reviews/21 ScrumDesk vasundhara JM 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. Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:37:47 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/20 http://userstories.com/reviews/20 ScrumDesk Monika Kantorova Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:35:31 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/19 http://userstories.com/reviews/19 ScrumDesk Daniel Ferenc 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. Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:07:06 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/18 http://userstories.com/reviews/18 ScrumDesk Rob Hale 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. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:54:38 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/17 http://userstories.com/reviews/17 Rally Enterprise Edition Brendan Flynn 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 Vähäniitty Agilefant's Business owner P.S. Yes, I agree that my rating of Agilefant is probably biased :-) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:45:31 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/16 http://userstories.com/reviews/16 Agilefant Jarno Vähäniitty 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 & 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 & 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 & adapt effectively. Thanks for the great tool :-) ANdreaT Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:54:06 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/15 http://userstories.com/reviews/15 Agilo for Scrum™ Andrea Tomasini 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. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:24:25 -0600 http://userstories.com/reviews/14 http://userstories.com/reviews/14 Agilo for Scrum™ Garbrand van der Molen 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! Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:29:06 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/13 http://userstories.com/reviews/13 Rally Enterprise Edition Donny Jackson 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. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:09:15 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/12 http://userstories.com/reviews/12 Agilo for Scrum™ Marion Eickmann 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 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:29:59 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/11 http://userstories.com/reviews/11 ScrumWorks Pro Brad Chinn 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. Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:00:44 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/10 http://userstories.com/reviews/10 V1: Agile Enterprise Gary Marcos 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. Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:06:43 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/9 http://userstories.com/reviews/9 ScrumWorks Pro John Cornell 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. Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:07:30 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/8 http://userstories.com/reviews/8 ScrumPad Fuad Omar 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. Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:41:50 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/7 http://userstories.com/reviews/7 ScrumDesk Peter Prokopcak 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. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:18:09 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/6 http://userstories.com/reviews/6 Scrumy Robert Brend 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 we’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. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:39:01 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/5 http://userstories.com/reviews/5 ScrumWorks Pro Chas Bailey 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. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:58:49 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/3 http://userstories.com/reviews/3 eXPlainPMT Jeff Langr 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. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:22:00 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/2 http://userstories.com/reviews/2 eXPlainPMT Jake Dempsey Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:06:35 -0500 http://userstories.com/reviews/1 http://userstories.com/reviews/1 ScrumDesk Fero Ivanic