I'm working on an investigation on the NLP field. Since software engineering and software documentation are not the primary concerns of my whole investigation I decided to do it using XP.My question is, can you recomend:Any tool you've used to manage XP projectsAny recomendation/link on how to manage investigation projectsI'm very biased with XP because I've used it before, but if anyone has a better methodology you can post it as well
Any recommendation to manage an investigation projects?
methodology;development methodologies;extreme programming
XPlanner is my favorite XP/Scrum planning and management tool. It isn't heavy on reporting, but it gives me what I need. I've also used Rally, which is more suited to large organizations and is a bit heavy for the daily team tasks. If you need detailed reports for upper management, it does a good job.As for how to manage investigation, I have my teams set definable goals. Tasks have definable success/failure/completion states and aren't vague. So we end up with tons of short tasks like Test REST interface for performance capabilities and Examine proxy/firewall restrictions for client rather than Explore REST. New tasks go up all the time and forces us to have very short sprints. In the range of 3-5 days. You just can't plan exploration out much further than that in the beginning because you don't know what you don't know.