Agile Tools - Taking Your Agile Practices To The Next Level

About this Presentation

Tools and practices as subscribed by the XP methodology are reasonably well known and used by the majority of agile project teams. As agile teams become more mature, so does their thirst for tools to push them to the next level of productivity.

In this talk, we will walk through a number of project tools used by some teams we work with. In some cases, we will explain how we hacked tools that you may already be using to make them more efficient or useful. In other cases, we’ll describe new tools designed by teams we have been working with who are trying to move to the next level.

• Lightweight storycard tools - Hacking tools like Jira + GreenHopper and XPlanner
• Collaboration tools - getting the most from tools like Confluence and Sharepoint
• Continuous Integration tools - using Hudson for build and environment management, using Scoreboard for visual and audible monitoring
• Testing tools - using WebTest, Groovy and DSLs to take testing to the next level
• Development Environments - testing your development environment, keeping development environments consistent, scripting your machine builds
• Deployment tools - using tools such as Tableaux, testing your deployment scripts
• Development tools - hacking your IDE, plugins, visualising your version control system
• Monitoring tools - live dashboards for better understanding characteristics of your production systems in real time
• Tools backlash - examples where computerised tools failed us and we reverted to other means