ScrumWall

ScrumWall. Scrumwall empowers agile teams to manage scrum using virtual walls and index cards. Scrum wall is a complete scum management tool. List of features:

• Virtual Index Cards
• Burndown reports
• Real time feedback
• Iteration management

What are advantages of Agile over a traditional "Waterfall" apporach?

Waterfall process is heavy and relies in rigid palnnning and rigorous practices to 'predict' the future. Ultimaltely, this requires locking down of requirements to fullill the prediction. This creates bureaucracy leading to a widening gap of what the user wants and what the software actually does. Agile eliminates these pitfalls by:

• Continual adaptaion
• Iterative development
• Working software deliverables
• Transparency in process
• Stakeholder invovlement

Agile Methodology

Agile prefers individuals and interactions over processes and tools. It prefers customer collaboration over contract negotiation. Agile is designed to elimintate iissues in rigid development process such as the 'Waterfall' model. Most often, in rigid development processes, business users are asked to recite requirements for software and signoff before the lengthy development process. Stakeholders are compelled to come up with requirements a task for which most of them are not professionally trained. In addition, a constantly changing marketplace makes part or all of the requirment obsolete while the development process ensues. Agile addresses these with a core set of rules or principles 

Agile Principles

• Customer Principles
• Deliver valuable working software through early and continual releases.
• Change is valued and accepted not frowned upon.
• Release in short cycles to get customer feedback.
• Business and development team collaborate daily for the common goal
• Management Principles
• Project progress is identified only by working, releasable software
• Sustainable pace is key.
• Use lightweight tools facilitating constant and open communication
• Development Principles
Simple design, less documentation.
• Focus on quality. Use test driven design, development and continous integration to promote quality
• Continually adapt and realign to feedback