Anyone using AgileZen with a more detailed project management system (like Redmine)?
Sylvain Carle
I am trying to conceptually see how I could map "tickets" as "tasks" under stories (with URLs). Anyone tried something like that? Did it work? Too much overhead or still useful? I want to use a Kanban for a high level overview while still managing detailed tasks elsewhere (in the system I already use). Curious to hear about your experience.
2 Posted by Andrew Lindesay on 24 Aug, 2011 12:13 AM
I am also interested in this question. I am specifically interested in how one might go about managing an AgileZen kan-ban board together with Jira and as a result maintaining the software-release version management capabilities and change-management capabilities of Jira. Has anybody already worked through these issues or have people found that the concepts of version-management/ticketing are irreconcilable with a kan-ban board?
3 Posted by JBB on 18 Sep, 2011 01:01 PM
Hi Andrew,
I'm a UX team manager currently evaluating AgileZen. Our development teams use Jira and Greenhopper and are in Scrum. However, we've tried and failed to work with them in Scrum (using both Jira and another tool at the time), so have gone to Kanban instead. Kanban itself it working well for us - we've been using it for about 6 months.
However, we don't use any digital tools at all at the moment other than an Excel sheet to calculate our metrics. So that we can refine our Kanban process better, I'm now looking at ways we can automate it with AgileZen, while also trying to see if we can "integrate" in some way with Jira/Greenhopper. Right now, it'll be enough to put a link in the AgileZen story to the corresponding story in Jira. But one of things I need to establish is whether we can use AgileZen's API to help us with that. I'll see if I can keep you posted on my progress.
I'm not sure what you mean by "the concepts of version-management/ticketing" - can you explain that a bit? They appear to me to be process agnostic so I'm not sure why you are concerned.
(BTW the Greenhopper Kanban plugin appears to be a waste of time, but I've yet to fully establish that.)