Agilo: Scrum plugin for Trac

12 Jan 2011

We use Trac as project collaboration space[1] within our company. We have been trying out agile-methodology (specially Scrum) for projects, but recently we went more formal with the approach using a software to manage the whole process.

I evaluated some software for agile project management and found good ones including ThoughtWorks' Mingle, but it's not open-source and I believe, we can't afford it (licensing, subscription).

We found 'Agilo', a plugin for Trac, is easy to setup and was intuitive enough to get us started, considering our (no) experience with formal agile-methodology.

Do you want to get started with Scrum and don't want to invest time learning a complicated software? You don't need a software to do Scrum. However, if you like managing projects using a software and you are comfortable with Trac, try Agilo.

You might want to check <a title="Scrum in five minutes - crash course" href=""http://www.softhouse.se/Uploades/Scrum_eng_webb.pdf">Scrum in five minutes</a> [PDF]

BTW! This is yet another post to spread the word about the software and tools, we find useful and have been using.

[1] project management, bug tracking, documentation, wiki and version-control browser