agile & projectmanagement Gerd Saurer on 09 Sep 2007 02:24 pm
Agile JIRA
Several weeks ago i posted about “Making JIRA a little more agile“. Today I found a Company called Green Pepper Software that has developed a product called Green Hopper which extends JIRA with stuff that is more common in the agile world than the list views the product provides out of the box.
They added an very intuitive Dash board for planing releases and a possibility to generate Burn down charts. In comparison with Mingle I have to say that i would prefer Green Hopper. Mingle is just an agile project management tool, JIRA was original invented as Bug Tracking Tool but can be extended with Green Hopper to an project management tool. The second advantage of JIRA is that there are thousands of other Plugins available and you have the possibility to write some of them on your own.
on 09 Sep 2007 at 4:20 1.rupert said …
I’ve found this extension to JIRA/Confluence also and it is certainly a extremely useful extension to the Atlassian products if you already use them. But compare it to Mingle is a bit unfair because Mingle in it’s current state is simple a task management and -transition tool, as was JIRA in the beginning. The big advantage is that Mingle is simple, flexible and has a good metaphoric, cards, to visualize the current state.
The problem that I’ve with JIRA/Confluence is that you need someone who knows the tools and manage them otherwise it becomes a complete mess.
GreenPepperSoftare also provides another very interesting tool, called Pepper Server, which is a integration of JIRA/Confluence/Maven for testing. There is also a free version which could be found at http://www.greenpeppersoftware.com/en/greenpepperopen/GreenPepperOpen/.
on 09 Sep 2007 at 8:54 2.Gerd Saurer said …
I would not say that comparing the two products is a bit unfair. We have to decide every day which products an tools to use. Normally they should be easy to use, stable ….. but in the end every webtool that is used by more than 2 people (normally this is intended) needs attention and management.
Thanks for the link - this reminds me that i haven’t published any stuff about testing until now.