[teampractices] Scrum-y tools based on BZ (was Re: Scrumbu.gs)

[Chris McMahon]

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Toby Negrin <tnegrin at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
> Yahoo's bugzilla instance was heavily patched so even if the source code
> was available, it probably wouldn't work with out of the box bugzilla but
> it definitely proves the concept.
>

I've used most of the Agile PM tools out there, (Jira + GreenHopper
anyone?), and the more easy it is to tweak the workflow within the tool,
the more successful teams tend to be with the tools.  All these similar
tools should offer this wide configurability, but as Steven noted, some are
more expensive to tweak than others.

This makes sense given the Agile values of "responding to change" and
"regular adaptation" [1], and it is a logical consequence of effective
retrospective:  you have to be able to adapt the way you work to the
circumstances under which you would like to work.  If your PM tool won't
let you do that, then it is the wrong tool.

-C
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
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