Thursday, February 7, 2008

Working on an Online SCRUM Management program RallyDev

I am currently working in a grad program on a project for my final capstone piece of a Masters Degree in Software Engineering. One of the requirements of the course is to manage and run a software development project having some "significance" to the field. Of course significance is a very subjective word, but I think it is working out nicely. Since it is a shortened time period, 14 weeks, we are employing the SCRUM methodology to keep us agile. Organizing a group of working professionals as part time students is pretty tricky and having face to face meetings all the time is tough. We decided to use a tool that a friend of mine mentioned called RallyDev . I am not trying to shamelessly promote this site, but so far it has worked out pretty well.

It is fully online and they have a Community Edition that accepts a team up to 10 people with some missing functionality, good for cheap students (even part time students don't want to pay for stuff). We haven't gotten all the way through the project yet, so I can't say how it is to completion, but so far I like it.