I am thinking of developing software to facilitate home and small businesses in developing applications using the agile methodology.
Do you know of any good resources to support my research; or even of an application that exists already?
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I don't think agile methods are necessarily about software; they're more about describing the interactions of a team amongst themselves and with their customers.
If you Google "agile software" you'll see that there are a number of tools on the market already for estimating, tracking, managing, etc. I don't know what you'll add over and above those.
There is some research about the value of agile methods, but I'm not sure how scientific any of it is. The biggest problem you have when developing software in general is metrics: How do we measure productivity? No one knows or agrees. Any study will have to pretend that it knows. Your work will have this problem as well.
duffymo
2010-03-21 19:38:21
I should add that I understand what you are saying and accept it. However, I was asking about finding/writing software that facilitates those interactions. You are spot on in your third paragraph.
Kurucu
2010-06-08 14:57:01
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Rally is one of the first products I know of that comes to mind. Perhaps even Fogbugz too, though that tends to be more geared towards stricter time recording of tasks.
That's agile for management of projects.
Chris S
2010-03-21 19:42:50
Your answer is good, but I can only choose one. I will have to stick to the point in my question re small businesses; whereby the answer referring to Mingle is slightly more appropriate as the software can be scaled in cost as well as performance to suit smaller teams and budgets.
Kurucu
2010-03-26 18:57:25