Effective use of Agile-Trac for Agile Development

Note this is a reposting of some older material. The article has been given a date that reflects the time that this event occured so it will appear chronologically in the articles list

I was very lucky to be invited to speak at the the inaugural JAX London event back in 2010 by Jutta Eckstein. Having crossed paths with Jutta many times at previous ACCU conferences and also at Agile 2008 we knew we shared a common interest in distibuted agile and approaches and tooling that could enable it. My talk was to present Agile-Trac and demonstrate how we could more with the correct tooling.

Having been a fan of the Trac Open Source Project which provides source code managment, issue tracking and a wiki to allow development teams to "get work down without the tooling getting in the way" I set about developing a fork called Agile-Trac.

Agile-Trac was developed over a year or so while commuting to work on the train. Originally intended as a plugin for Trac the changes were too extensive and it ended up being a fork instead. In summary though Agile-Trac added agile focused concepts to Trac such as Iterations, User Stories, Relativing Sizing and Estimated Completion Dates based on a team's Iteration Completion Rate, and so on. To learn more check out the slides!