Hello, I''m pleased to announce the initial public release of eXPlain Project Management Tool. This is a GPL''d project to create a web-based project planning tool that supports eXtreme Programming and other agile methodologies. It is being developed on the Ruby on Rails framework. This tool is designed for those who wish to employ agile development, but either can''t or just don''t wish to keep track of index cards as one normally does when following XP. You can find out more about the project, view a live demo, and download the release from the project''s (not very pretty yet) home page at http://explainpmt.com . Please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions, and I would especially love to hear from others who would be willing to contribute to the future development of this system. -- Regards, John Wilger ----------- Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. "I don''t know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn''t matter." - Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
thats really nice. On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:01:12 -0500, John Wilger <johnwilger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hello, > > I''m pleased to announce the initial public release of eXPlain Project > Management Tool. This is a GPL''d project to create a web-based project > planning tool that supports eXtreme Programming and other agile > methodologies. It is being developed on the Ruby on Rails framework. > > This tool is designed for those who wish to employ agile development, > but either can''t or just don''t wish to keep track of index cards as > one normally does when following XP. > > You can find out more about the project, view a live demo, and > download the release from the project''s (not very pretty yet) home > page at http://explainpmt.com . > > Please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions, and I > would especially love to hear from others who would be willing to > contribute to the future development of this system. > > -- > Regards, > John Wilger > > ----------- > Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. > "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. > "I don''t know," Alice answered. > "Then," said the cat, "it doesn''t matter." > - Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- Tobi http://www.snowdevil.ca - Snowboards that don''t suck http://www.hieraki.org - Open source book authoring http://blog.leetsoft.com - Technical weblog
Very nice indeed. I''m especially intrigued by your interest in adding test tracking and SCM integration. For the latter http://rscm.rubyforge.org/ may ease the task. On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:10:29 -0500, Tobias Luetke <tobias.luetke-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> thats really nice. > > > On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:01:12 -0500, John Wilger <johnwilger-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I''m pleased to announce the initial public release of eXPlain Project > > Management Tool. This is a GPL''d project to create a web-based project > > planning tool that supports eXtreme Programming and other agile > > methodologies. It is being developed on the Ruby on Rails framework. > > > > This tool is designed for those who wish to employ agile development, > > but either can''t or just don''t wish to keep track of index cards as > > one normally does when following XP. > > > > You can find out more about the project, view a live demo, and > > download the release from the project''s (not very pretty yet) home > > page at http://explainpmt.com . > > > > Please let me know if you have any problems or suggestions, and I > > would especially love to hear from others who would be willing to > > contribute to the future development of this system. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > John Wilger > > > > ----------- > > Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked. > > "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat. > > "I don''t know," Alice answered. > > "Then," said the cat, "it doesn''t matter." > > - Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails mailing list > > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > > -- > Tobi > http://www.snowdevil.ca - Snowboards that don''t suck > http://www.hieraki.org - Open source book authoring > http://blog.leetsoft.com - Technical weblog > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
John-Mason P. Shackelford
2005-Mar-26 13:20 UTC
Re: [ANN] eXPlain Project Management Tool - 1.0
> Very nice indeed. I''m especially intrigued by your interest in adding> test tracking and SCM integration. For the latter > http://rscm.rubyforge.org/ may ease the task. Agreed. See also DamageControl http://damagecontrol.codehaus.org/. John-Mason Shackelford Software Developer Pearson Educational Measurement 2510 North Dodge St. Iowa City, IA 52245 ph. 319-354-9200x6214 john-mason.shackelford-uJfvbxoDSvxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org http://www.pearson.com/
The reason Agile methods call for writing user stories down on index cards is because it is quick and easy, but also aligns well with the Agile principle of being co-located (an effort to stop outsourcing perhaps?). Most people can type faster than they can write, so I don''t see how a great tool like this one can''t do anything but help. Here are some ideas: 1) Allow more than one owner for a card to facilitate pair-programming. 2) Maintain a team velocity graph for the project, broken down by iteration. 3) Add a way to "shuffle" cards so one can be picked randomly (another reason for index cards). Anyway, great project! Look forward to future versions! Shane Vitarana http://www.shanesbrain.net/ On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:20:02 -0600, John-Mason P. Shackelford <john-mason-Grinw8Jr/8zZYwk40xCobA@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > > Very nice indeed. I''m especially intrigued by your interest in adding > > test tracking and SCM integration. For the latter > > http://rscm.rubyforge.org/ may ease the task. > > Agreed. See also DamageControl http://damagecontrol.codehaus.org/. > > John-Mason Shackelford > > Software Developer > Pearson Educational Measurement > > 2510 North Dodge St. > Iowa City, IA 52245 > ph. 319-354-9200x6214 > john-mason.shackelford-uJfvbxoDSvxBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org > http://www.pearson.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
> Here are some ideas: > 1) Allow more than one owner for a card to facilitate pair-programming. > 2) Maintain a team velocity graph for the project, broken down by > iteration. > 3) Add a way to "shuffle" cards so one can be picked randomly (another > reason for index cards).shuffle cards? shouldn''t the customer define the priority of the stories?