IceScrum is an J2EE application for using Scrum while keeping the spirit of a collaborative workspace. It also offers virtual boards with post-its for sprint backlog, product backlog and others.
The tool offers everything that is in Scrum :
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The role management: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Team member and StakeHolder
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The product backlog management with advanced features for prioritizing stories
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Scrum lifecycle including a roadmap view
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Release planning
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Sprint backlog, as a task board facilitating the Scrum ceremonial
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Management of impediments
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Chart production such as burndown charts, velocity charts, cumulative flow diagram
Icescrum offers others agile practices like :
* Roadmap
* Vision
* Features
* User stories
* Acceptance tests associated to stories
* User roles
* Planning poker
Mit Unterstützung des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) erarbeitet eine gemeinsame Initiative von Universitäten und Unternehmen einen neuartigen Ansatz für den systematischen Aufbau webbasierter Anwendungen. Ziel ist es, Methoden und Technologien für die hocheffiziente Entwicklung komplexer, dynamischer Web-Applikationen bereitzustellen.
Das auf einen Zeitraum von drei Jahren ausgelegte Forschungsvorhaben WISE - Web Information and Service Engineering ist ein Projekt der Initiative „Software Engineering 2006“, mit der das BMBF die technologische Wettbewerbsfähigkeit auf dem Gebiet der Software-Entwicklung erhalten und ausbauen möchte.
Studies (eg Standish, 1995 et al) show that poor requirements are a prime cause of project failure or insufficiency, yet commercial requirements tools are very expensive. There exists no full-featured Open Source Requirements Architecture tool. This project intends to fill that gap, integrating with other Open Source CASE tools to provide a complete Open Source CASE environment.
Very interesting article, seems to be an extract of the author's book on rapid sw development from 1996 (sic). Many points (especially #4 e.g.) look quite familiar to me.