How-To Guides

Quick tips on implementing Agile project management with ExtremePlanner.

• Agile Requirements Gathering
  How to capture your customers needs without knowing all of the details up front.

• Agile Release Planning
  Collaborating between customers and developers to deliver the most important features in a timely manner.

• Day-to-Day Agile Project Management
  How to stay on top of changing project risks, obstacles, and opportunities.

Articles

This section lists articles on agile project planning, software development, and other related topics.  We hope you'll find these useful in planning and running your software development projects.

• Agile Project Planning
  An overview of the problems with traditional software project management, and how an agile approach to project planning can help. By David Churchville.

• 3 Surefire Ways to Meet Your Software Project Deadline
  Three tips on how you can meet your project deadline without working overtime or reducing quality. By David Churchville.

• The Seven Properties of Running an Agile Project
  A chapter excerpt from the book Crystal Clear Applied on the properties observed on successful software teams, and how these can be applied to running agile projects. By Alistair Cockburn.

• The New Methodology
  Good coverage of the "agile methods" being used today, and comparing and contrasting these to traditional methods.  Discusses the reasons for using such methods, along with references to the different flavors available, and how they might fit your environment.  By Martin Fowler.

Resources

• Agile Project Planning Blog
  Thoughts on agile project management, software development, and testing.