Good Scrum application for OS X?

Question

Can anyone recommend a good Scrum application for Mac OS X?

Basically, I need:

• product and sprint backlog tracking
• story cards
• burndown chart support

If there are web-based alternatives, those work too.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Don't you have Excel support on Mac OS X? If you do, I'd suggest:

• Henrik Kniberg's Index card generator - version 2! and a wall for the spring backlog - OR -
• Petri Heiramo's advanced product and sprint backlog template (video tutorial here)

Excel is really an extremely powerful tool, especially for the product backlog, and it has my preference¹ if suitable: just share the product backlog on a network drive and there you go.

_{¹ My biggest concerns with web based tool are that I find them too much click-intensive, less responsive, in one word slow. So, unless I really have to use a web based tool (e.g. with distributed teams that don't have access to the internal network), I prefer a spreadsheet.}

Answer 2

You should check out the web demos at http://rallydev.com. I tried a lot of open source packages before I tried this one. Just check out the demos and see if it fits the way you work.

Answer 3

You could try, http://agility.imeta.co.uk