Overview of virtual agile tools

Overview of virtual agile toolsKirill Klimov Agile Eastern Europe, Kiev, Ukraine, 24.09.2011

Universe of available tools

Lists of Agile tools• List of tools at Mike Cohn’s User Stories site (60+ tools)• Agile Management Tools list at (60+ tools)

Bad newsThere is no universal swiss-armyelectronic Agile tool of general purpose

or there is..?

Team distribution

Team distribution collocated team

Team distribution collocated teamcollocated team with off-site PO

Team distribution collocated team distributed teamcollocated team with off-site PO

Team distribution results distributed team collocated team 31% 36% 33% collocated team with off-site PO

Team size >15 2-4 28% 22% 11-15 9% 21% 21% 5-7 8-10

Features comparison

Features comparison 1 = not important 2 3 4 5 = very important

Features comparison Important stuff 200 150 100 50 4,2 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 = not important not very 2 important important 3 4 5 = very important

Features comparison Important stuff Unimportant stuff 200 200 150 150 100 100 50 4,2 50 1,6 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 = not important not very not very 2 important important important important 3 4 5 = very important

Features comparison Important stuff Unimportant stuff 200 200 150 150 100 100 50 4,2 50 1,6 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 = not important not very not very 2 important important important important 3 4 Does not really care 5 = very important 200 150 100 50 3,0 0 1 2 3 4 5 not very important important

Features comparison Important stuff Unimportant stuff 200 200 150 150 100 100 50 4,2 50 1,6 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 = not important not very not very 2 important important important important 3 4 Does not really care Either like a lot or do not like at all 5 = very important 200 200 150 150 100 100 50 3,0 50 3,0 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 not very not very important important important important

Features: web access 200 160 120 80 4,4 40 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: Scrum support 90 72 54 36 3,8 18 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: Scrum support 90 72 54 2-4 36 3,6 3,8 18 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: Kanban support 90 72 54 36 2,6 18 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: Kanban support 90 72 54 2,8 36 2,6 2,6 18 2,3 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: iteration planning 150 120 90 60 4,1 30 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: release planning 80 64 48 32 3,7 16 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: project planning 80 64 48 32 3,6 16 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: project planning 80 64 48 8-10 32 3,9 3,6 16 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: time management 70 56 42 28 3,3 14 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: time management 3,2 70 3,5 56 3,1 42 28 3,3 14 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: time management 3,2 70 3,5 56 3,1 42 282-4 3,3 3,0 14... 0 1 2 3 4 5 >15 not important very important 3,7

Features: integration with version control,bugtrackers, continuous integration systems, etc 70 56 42 28 3,5 14 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: integration with version control,bugtrackers, continuous integration systems, etc 70 56 42 3,3 28 3,6 3,5 14 3,4 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: simplicity vs complexity 90 72 54 36 3,1 18 0 1 2 3 4 5 simple and powerful and easy to use conﬁgurable

Features: simplicity vs complexity 90 72 54 2,9 36 3,3 3,1 18 3,1 0 1 2 3 4 5 simple and powerful and easy to use conﬁgurable

Features: customizable workﬂow 90 72 54 36 3,5 18 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: customizable workﬂow 90 72 3,4 54 3,8 36 3,5 18 3,3 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: reporting & analysis 80 64 48 32 3,5 16 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: reporting & analysis 80 64 48 2-4 32 3,0 3,5 16 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

Features: hosting 120 96 72 48 1,7 24 0 1 2 3 Hosted at 3rd party Self hosted (or at some cloud)

Features: low price or totally free solution 100 80 60 40 3,2 20 0 1 2 3 4 5 not important very important

collocated team with off-site PO

“Ideal” tool portraitWeb based self-hosted tool, with customizableworkﬂow, so conﬁgurable to some degree andstill simple to use. Should have support foriteration and release planning as well as forScrum. ved pro ap

Now we are using others 3% 10% 4% 4% 4% 33% 9% 33%

Now we are using (depending on team size)

Now we are using (depending on team size)2-4 3%3% 3% 3% others 5% 16% 11% 20% 38%

Now we are using (depending on team size)2-4 others 5-7 3%3% 9% 3% 3% 3% others 4% 5% 4% 16% 6% 11% 42% 20% 31% 38%

Now we are using (depending on team size)2-4 others 5-7 3%3% 9% 3% 3% 3% others 4% 5% 4% 16% 6% 11% 42% 20% 31% 38% others 15% 4% 6% 9% 42% 8-10 25%

Now we are using (depending on team size)2-4 others 5-7 3%3% 9% 3% 3% 3% others 4% 5% 4% 16% 6% 11% 42% 20% 31% 38% others 15% others 4% 36% 29% 6% 9% 42% 36% 11-15 8-10 25%

Now we are using (depending on team size) >15 others 21% 6% 36% 36%

Now we are using (depending on team distribution)

Now we are using (depending on team distribution) others 18% 3% 3% 6% 32% 9% 29%

Now we are using (depending on team distribution) others others 18% 3% 8% 3% 3% 3% 6% 32% 5% 5% 32% 9% 8% 29% 35%

Now we are using (depending on team distribution) others others 18% 3% 8% 3% 3% 3% 6% 32% 5% 5% 32% 9% 8% 29% 35% others 10% 3%3% 4% 6% 32% 11% 32%

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to 2% 2% others 3% 9% 3% 4% 6% 45% 25%

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to(depending on team size)

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to(depending on team size)2-4 others 20% 7% 31% 15% 26%

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to(depending on team size)2-4 others others 20% 17% 7% 31% 15% 31% 53% 5-7 26%

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to (depending on team size) 2-4 others others 20% 17% 7% 31% 15% 31% 53% 5-7 26%8-10 others 23% 8% 42% 8% 19%

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to (depending on team size) 2-4 others others 20% 17% 7% 31% 11-15 31% 53% 15% 5-7 26% others 31% 46% 23%8-10 others 23% 8% 42% 8% 19%

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to (depending on team size) 2-4 others others 20% 17% 7% 31% 11-15 31% 53% 15% 5-7 26% others 31% 46% 23% others8-10 others 7% 7% 23% 11% 8% 42% 44% 8% 30% 19% >15

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to(depending on team distribution)

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to(depending on team distribution) others 13% 4% 4% 4% 6% 47% 23%

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to(depending on team distribution) others others 13% 9% 4% 4% 4% 4% 4% 6% 6% 47% 9% 38% 23% 30%

In 3-6 months we are considering switching to(depending on team distribution) others others 13% 9% 4% 4% 4% 4% 4% 6% 6% 47% 9% 38% 23% 30% others 13% 4% 7% 48% 28%

Tool selection strategy

Tool selection strategy• Do You really need some tool? Sure?

Tool selection strategy• Do You really need some tool? Sure?• Pick 3-4 features most important for You! Don’t think of everything You might need some day at the future.

Tool selection strategy• Do You really need some tool? Sure?• Pick 3-4 features most important for You! Don’t think of everything You might need some day at the future.• Pick 2 tools covering most (80-90%) of your requested features.

Tool selection strategy• Do You really need some tool? Sure?• Pick 3-4 features most important for You! Don’t think of everything You might need some day at the future.• Pick 2 tools covering most (80-90%) of your requested features.• Try 1st of them. If it looks OK – forget 2nd one and just use it. Best is the enemy of the good.

Tool selection strategy• Do You really need some tool? Sure?• Pick 3-4 features most important for You! Don’t think of everything You might need some day at the future.• Pick 2 tools covering most (80-90%) of your requested features.• Try 1st of them. If it looks OK – forget 2nd one and just use it. Best is the enemy of the good.• If it’s really bad, stick with 2nd option.

Thank you! kirill@kserver.kiev.ua www.linkedIn.com/in/kirillklimov Blog: agileguy.posterous.com Slides: slideshare.net/f0g Twitter: @f0g

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