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Welcome to Agilefant's one-stop knowledge hub for things lean and agile!

This page is being renovated from our old Related work page; we will be more careful in the future to post here only the (in our opinion) juiciest bits, the old contents are kept below for now.

Also, you can find a load of fresh presentations of Agilefant and its background below!

Your presentation / project / research group / paper / tool not listed? Contact us () and we'll add the link.

Presentations

2012.03.30: The blind and the product backlog - towards understanding lean/agile requirements engineering: Jarno Vähäniitty's presentation slides at SoberIT's Lab Seminar (download from SourceForge)

2012.03.28: Towards Agile Product and Portfolio Management: Jarno Vähäniitty's lecture at T-128 Management of a Software Venture at Aalto University, 28.3.2012 (download from SourceForge)

2012.03.27: The blind and the product backlog - towards understanding lean/agile requirements engineering: Jarno Vähäniitty's slides at Cloud Software Program Q1/2012 review at Alexandra Jyväskylä, 27.3.2012 (download from SourceForge)

2012.03.22: Jarno Vähäniitty's slides at Introduction to Software Engineering at Aalto University, 22.3.2012 (download from SourceForge)

2012.02.10: Jarno Vähäniitty's slides at lectio precursoria on 'Kohti ketterää ohjelmistotuotehallintoa ja -tekemissalkun hallintaa' at TU1, TUAS building, 10.2.2012 (download from SourceForge)

2012.01.24: Jarno Vähäniitty's slides on 'The Blind and the Product Backlog - Towards Lean/Agile Requirements Engineering' at Agile & Project Management Conference 2012 (download from SourceForge)

2009.10.16: Jarno Vähäniitty' slides on Agilefant at Scan-Agile 2009

2009.03.17: Dean Leffingwell's presentation on Agile Portfolio Management (link to PDF).

Other electronic tools

Agilefant's Big List of tools for project, backlog and development portfolio management is the most comprehensive one on the Internet that we know of. The list is freely editable, you can add your solution or update its info as needed. Be as neutral as possible, for the copy-written ad-like stuff put a link to your site instead
A list of open source Scrum tools and solutions hosted by TinyPM (a commercial vendor)
http://borisgloger.com/en/2009/03/01/scrum-tools-2009-2/
A list of RE tools at http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~iany/other/vendors.htm
John of Irie Inc. has blogged quite extensively on what he thinks the ideal backlog management tool should be capable of doing, and also compared how several existing solutions handle his requirements
A list of requirements management tools at Volere.co.uk maintained by the Atlantic Systems Guild
A "guide to selecting an agile management tool" by VersionOne (a commercial vendor). A more complete listing of features can also be downloaded from their site.
A review of "the most compelling open source options for agile project management tools" by Brad Swanson (posted 21.9.2009); contains Agilefant, IceScrum, Agilo, eXPlainPMT and XPlanner
Guide to project mgmt software by Chris Maxcer; contains many more listings of project mgmt software...
http://trailridgeconsulting.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=99:agile-tooling-survey-2006&catid=27:surveys&Itemid=60
TopTenReview's top ten list of online project mgmt software; contains a nice breakdown of features, probably something we will improve on concerning the area of managing the development portfolio
List of project management software in Wikipedia
Mike Cohn's site UserStories.com where those who work hands-on with the various product backlog / user story management tools can provide opinions. We recommend subscribing to its RSS feed.
Cameron Chapman's Online Business Toolbox at Mashable.com (especially the Task Lists, Planning & Project Management section)
TargetProcess's (a commercial tool vendor) site Agile Tools listing & evaluating several open source and free tools.
Rick Cogley's blog post listing several tools, including Agilefant.

Research

Research groups

Software Process Research Group at Aalto University

Research projects

The Cloud Software Program (2010-2013) is studying lean, agile and scaling them up.

The ATMAN research project by SPRG @ SoberIT, TKK

Selected publications

(under renovation)

Podcasts

Johanna Rothman on Agile Portfolio Management at the Agile Toolkit podcast

Books

Johanna Rothman's Manage Your Project Portfolio

Other material

Top books for scaling agile by Jarno Vähäniitty (flyer handout at Cloud 2010/Q4 review)