Tooling system
Agile recommends interactions over any process or tooling. Indeed, no team needs any tooling system, but using a tooling can help teams tremendously. Any tooling system we opt for should help the team to adapt to the Agile process and help in team collaboration and continuous improvement to increase productivity.
There are plenty of tools available in the market to start with Agile. On a first look at the Agile team requirements, some of the quick features you would like from a tooling system to help you are:
Easy setting up of the Agile project
Quick backlog creation
Intelligent and easy backlog grooming and ranking
Team collaboration between single and multiple teams
Intuitive task creation and status updates
Clear top-priority task visualization and impediment flagging
Clear and deep reports or charting for data
Each team member's day-to-day individual task tracking
Easy customization and flexibility for hybrid Agile process teams
Easy integration with business and testing teams
Easy integration with different development and testing tools
Easy and smooth fit for the distributed teams
Ability to enable team to continuously improve in process and new technology integration
We will further cover how such an Agile tool like GreenHopper best fits here, mapping to all your Agile team requirements.
