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Can you recommend a free Task Board/Burndown tool for Windows?

There's not a lot to add to the subject really. I am after a free task board/ burndown reporting tool for Windows.
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Kanban/Scrum Boards

I'm curious as to what other people use for physical Kanban/Scrum boards in their companies. I appreciate that because of sensitive business information you may not be able to provide a photo of the board. I"m looking at to find out what does your…
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Managing the maintenance burden of unit tests

Coding test-first, I find that perhaps 3/4 of my code is unit tests; if I were truly extreme, and didn't write a line of code except to fix a failing unit test, this ratio would be even higher. Maintaining all these unit tests adds a huge amount of…
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Most suitable agile project management tool

I have been working with managing agile teams for quite some time. Now I'm at a company that no matter how hard I push for the fact that face-to-face is the way to go and that excel sheets works to get us going. But the company sees the…
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Agile Vs Spiral Model for SDLC

I believe that Agile is nothing but another implementation of Spiral Model. I am a big supporter of Spiral (The spiral model is a software development process combining elements of both design and prototyping-in-stages, in an effort to combine…
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What is the difference between Scrum and Extreme Programming?

A few years ago I have worked on a green field project where we did Extreme Programming. I also see a lot of people mention the Scrum methodology. Could someone tell me the main differences between Scrum and XP?
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What is the difference between the Agile, Scrum and CMMI TFS process templates

I want to ask you a very simple Question "What is the difference between the Agile, Scrum and CMMI TFS process templates from a developers point of view".. I am creating a project in Team Foundation Server and it is asking me to chose a Project…
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Basic steps for Agile software development methodology

What are the basic steps for Agile software development? And how you start a new project with agile methodology?
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How to charge/budget in agile software development projects?

How do you charge your customer in a project using agile methodology? Per hour? Then a great deal of trust has to been established before the project. Per iteration? There's gonna be a lot of budget decisions, which can take time. Per project?…
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How to stay DRY? Do Not Repeat Yourself!

I find that one of the most frustrating aspects to software development is finding a solution to a problem, forgetting it, then being faced with the same issue in the future only to forgot how you previously solved it. Or to write a useful bit of…
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Your Scrum definition of Done

While Scrum is easy in theory and hard in practice, I wanted to hear your definition of Done; i.e. what are the gates (unit test, code coverage > 80%, code reviews, load tests, perf.test, functional tests, etc.) your product has to go through before…
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How to stop Lean programming becoming Cowboy Coding?

My team has been progressively adopting more and more lightweight methodologies, moving from Scrum to Lean/Kanban where there is less and less formal process. At some point we will be back to Cowboy Coding; indeed I fear we may already be on the…
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Does Test Driven Development take the focus from Design?

I have mixed feelings about TDD. While I believe in testing I have a issues with the idea of the test driving my development effort. When you code to satisfy some tests written for an interface for requirements you have right now, you might shift…
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In Jira Agile when should I use a "Story" and when should I use an "Improvement"

We just started using Jira (with the Jira Agile plugin - Scrum template) for our issue tracker and agile planning. I am confused about the difference (or intended difference) between story and improvement. All our "stuff" is written as stories.…
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Difference between VS2010 Scrum v1.0 vs MSF for Agile software development v5.0 or the latter is the superset?

How significant are the differences between Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 & MSF for Agile Software Development v5.0 process templates? Has anyone used one over the other? We are currently using external tools (TRAC) for implementing Scrum in our…
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