Lorenzo Barberi posts this story of a guy trying to introduce agile methodologies into a traditional corporate 'Waterfall' management culture. What's really interesting in this story are the 'lessons' he mentions: 1) I wasn't very good at defending agile practices, which probably made me seem less competent and less professional than I would have if I had been able to rattle off responses to challenges immediately. That's partially a matter of education, an area where I have gotten better, and partially a matter of my personality (INTP) where I almost effortlessly try to adopt the frame of reference of my...
As I posted previously, the company I work for is looking at improving out development process, with this in mind we're currently trying out SCRUMÂ - thing is, I've yet to find a tool perfectly suited for managing projects using this method. My criteria are - free (or as near to it as possible), ideally .NET based and able to use the SCRUM process (so, Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, possibly some integration with VSS).; So how about it, anyone know of a tool that can do this?