XPlanner and Distributed XP Teams

XPlanner was originally developed to support a distributed XP team. This team had been using note cards successfully for over a year but a key stakeholder had been required to travel extensively and they wanted to monitor the development progress. Later, we used XPlanner as part of a larger tool suite to support distributed developer [...]

XPlanner Tip: Multiple Backlogs

Have you worked on a project with multiple customers representing multiple customer roles? For example, there may be a product manager role, a customer support role, a system operator/administrator role, and so on. I’ve seen this happen several times. The stories might also be conceptually organized into new features and technical debt (including refactoring and [...]

Ruby on Rails: Experimental XPlanner Port

I’ve been hearing so much about Ruby on Rails lately that I wanted to try it for myself. As an experiment I decided to port the XPlanner planning tool for XP/agile teams. This was only a partial porting effect focused on the core XPlanner functionality. I experienced a few minor challenges at the start of [...]