Agile Development Process



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• Mingle <http://www.xplanner.org/>
• Extreme Planner http://www.extremeplanner.com/>

• Creating User Stories

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• Pivotaltracker <<http://www.pivotaltracker.com/>>

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  Tools:
  Planning Poker<< http://www.planningpoker.com/>>  is best technique to define and refine your estimate

  Stand-up meeting

  Stand-up meeting is daily short meeting between development team to briefly describe what I completed yesterday, what I am going to complete today and current status on assigned task. Occasionally business user and domain expert could also join the meeting as well which give more visibility and confidence to them.

  It is not status meeting its just to give everybody a rough idea of where the team is which give more visibility and coordination across the team and give right direction for the day plan.

  Tools: I feel Whiteboard is very effective for stand up meeting

  Project Monitoring Technique

  Velocity:

  Velocity is an extremely simple, powerful method for accurately measuring the rate at which development teams consistently deliver business value. Velocity is a measure of productivity that project managers sometimes use in Agile software development. You calculate the velocity by counting the number of units of work completed in a certain interval, which is determined at the start of the project.

  To calculate velocity , end of each iteration, the agile team looks at the requirements it has finished and adds up the number of story points associated with those requirements. The total number of completed story points is the team’s velocity, or work output, for that iteration. After the first little iteration, you’ll start to see a trend and will be able to calculate the average velocity

  Tools:  Below are some tools could be used to track the velocity

  • TargetProcess<< http://www.targetprocess.com/>>
  • Pivotaltracker <<http://www.pivotaltracker.com/>>
  • Timetracking << http://slimtimer.com/>
  • VersionOne

  Burndown Reports:

  Burndown report is another metric to track the measure project progress. Burndown reports track the number of points completed and are used for monitoring single iterations, releases, and the entire project backlog. Burndown reports show progress, reflecting both the value delivered (in points) and the team’s velocity

  Tools: Below are some tools could be used to measure Burndown reports

  • TargetProcess <<http://www.targetprocess.com/Product/agile_tour.aspx>>
  • XPlanner <<http://xplanner.codehaus.org/>>
  • Pivotal Tracker  <<http://www.pivotaltracker.com/>>
  • ScrumWorks  <<http://danube.com/scrumworks/basic>>

  Summary: In this article i explained about the key agile process and what are the some of the tools could be used.

  References:

  • The Art of AgileSM -James Shore<<http://www.jamesshore.com>>
  • http://martinfowler.com/agile.html