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
However I don't think this is the key point about agile
methods. Lack of documentation is a symptom of two much deeper
differences:
Agile methods are adaptive rather than predictive.
Engineering methods tend to try to plan out a large part of the software
process in great detail for a long span of time, this works well until
things change. So their nature is to resist change. The agile methods,
however, welcome change. They try to be processes that adapt and
thrive on change, even to the point of changing themselves.
Agile methods are people-oriented rather than
process-oriented. The goal of engineering methods is to define a
process that will work well whoever happens to be using it. Agile
methods assert that no process will ever make up the skill of the
development team, so the role of a process is to support the
development team in their work.In the following sections I'll explore these differences in
more detail, so that you can understand what an adaptive and
people-centered process is like, its benefits and drawbacks, and
whether it's something you should use: either as a developer or
customer of software.
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.
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