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diricia's picture

In response to several posts in this group.

Telamenta is a South African based Drupal Company. We are 2 1/2 years old. I have many years experience in coding and project management. We have worked very hard over the last 2 years to optimize our quoting for clients. I play the role of scrum master and lead developer in the company. We use the following methodologies and tools.

Scrum
For agile development we use Scrum as a methodology.
Why?:

  • It helps us make give accurate quotes for our clients.
  • Low overhead ito documentation.
  • Effective in keeping a project on track.

Mockups
We love using Balsamiq Mockup
Why?:

  • It's fast
  • It's easy to use
  • We love the cartoon layout.

Scrum Tool
The best and most affordable online scrum tool is definitely Banana Scrum I spent many many hours researching for a easy to use scrum tool that would not cost us an arm and a leg. Most scrum tools are ridiculously expensive.
Why?:

  • It's affordable
  • It's easy to use
  • We can track our project in enough detail, but not so much that the management overhead becomes unbearable.

Support Tickets
Atrium of course!
Why?:

  • It's free!
  • It's Drupal
  • Easy to use and simple.

We favor tools and methodologies that are low cost and simple to use. The more complex the tool the more management overhead you create.
I hope people find this useful. Hmmm maybe I should do a BOF session at DrupalCon Copenhagen.

Comments

Some clarification

Ole Martin's picture

I am a little unsure of what you actually offer.
On your website it says "Desktop ($ 79)" and here in this thread it says:
"Support Tickets
Atrium of course!
Why?:

* It's free!
* It's Drupal
* Easy to use and simple. "

which can easily be confused with the product who is free. But it is only "support service" which is free.

Also see that the "Banana Scrum" is made with Joomla 1.5. Then your drupal solution is not free to use and the most marketed product here is Joomla?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28development%29

Clarification

diricia's picture

I don't know which site you looked on.

Open Atrium is FREE. Download here http://openatrium.com/download

I can't find any reference that Banana Scrum is made with Joomla. I also did not say Banana Scrum was free. I said it was affordable. Code sprinters is the company that develops it and if you look at their job section they use Python Ruby and PHP5 as languages http://www.codesprinters.com/more-about-us/jobs

I look at

Ole Martin's picture

I look at
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups
and
http://www.bananascrum.com/ -->Look at the sitecode -->   <meta name="generator" content="Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management" /> I know Joomla very well, because I used it a lot before.

I know that open Atrium is free, because I testing it on
http://intranett.drupal.no/

Hello

diricia's picture

I think you are right that their 'store' front sites are Joombla. However the product itself is not Joomla. See their demo here. https://demo.bananascrum.com/login
The same for Balsamiq. Their website is Joomla but their product is a standalone application, thus not joomla.

It actually does not matter. We use the tools that work the best for us, weather Joomla, php, drupal etc etc. We love Drupal and build our products in Drupal, and at the same time acknowledge that there are lots of other good frameworks and products out there.

For a laugh".

I am so far agree with you,

Ole Martin's picture

I am so far agree with you, but I just wanted to emphasize this for all those who do not see a difference between the different cms. I also use a different cms by what the customer wants and needs, but when I promote this as I tell which systems I use. So my thread here was to solve the systems you use. Can be useful for readers to know this. And I do not look away from that I also want to test "bananascrum" to see how good it is.
So do not look at my thread like an attacks on you, but as a clarification, and the link you posted had a lot of good jokes, love it!

Following a sprint at CPH,

a_c_m's picture

Following a sprint at CPH, we've started creating a SCRUM tool for Open Atrium. We are very interested in getting more people involved and contributing, you can see the very early development code here : http://github.com/a-c-m/pondscrum

Agile tool

sunny_'s picture

i think so Yodiz is best agile project management tool

South Africa

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