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Other tools and solutions

• Agilefant's Big List of tools for project, backlog and development portfolio management is the most comprehensive one on the Internet (170+ tools listed 28.11.2008). 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
• 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

Publications

(listed starting from the most recent)

2009

Jokelainen: Vaatimusten jäljitettävyys Scrum-prosessissa. B.Sc. (Tech), Helsinki Univ of Technology.

Heikkilä, Jadallah, Rautiainen & Ruhe: Rigorous Support for Flexible Planning of Product Releases - A Stakeholder-Centric Approach. Forthcoming in the proceedings of HICSS-42.

Vähäniitty, Lassenius, Rautiainen & Pekkanen: Long-term Planning of Development Efforts by Roadmapping - a Model and Experiences from a Small Software Company (PDF, presentation slides). In the proceedings of Euromicro 2009 Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)

Vähäniitty, Rautiainen & Lassenius: Small Software Organizations Need Explicit Portfolio Management. Revised draft; forthcoming in IBM journal of Research and Development, Fall 2009

Lehtola, Kauppinen, Vähäniitty & Komssi: Linking business and requirements engineering: is solution plannning a missing activity in software product companies? Requirements engineering journal, Special issue RE'07 best papers, Volume 14, Number 2 / June, Springer-Verlag 2009

Lehto & Rautiainen: Software Development Governance Challenges of a Middle-Sized Company in Agile Transition. Accepted to: International Workshop on Software Development Governance (SDG2009).

Ahlemann: Towards a conceptual reference model for project management information systems. International Journal of Project Management Volume 27, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 19-30 (PDF, picture: overview of the reference model)

2008

Heikkilä: Tool Support for Development Management in Agile Methods. Master's Thesis, Helsinki Univ of Technology (PDF)

Pekkanen: Tiekartta tuoteomistajan tukena Scrum-prosessissa. Bachelor's thesis, Helsinki Univ of Tech 2008. (PDF, in Finnish)

Vähäniitty & Rautiainen: Towards a Conceptual Framework and Tool Support for Linking Long-term Product and Business Planning with Agile Software Development. International Workshop on Software Development Governance (SDG2008). (PDF)

2005

Vähäniitty: A Tentative Framework for Connecting Long-Term Business and Product Planning with Iterative . In proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Economic-Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-7) at ICSE 2005, St. Louis, USA, 2005 (presentation slides)

Research projects & groups

The ATMAN research project by SPRG @ SoberIT, TKK

Presentations

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).

Podcasts

Johanna Rothman on Agile Portfolio Management at the Agile Toolkit podcast

Books

Johanna Rothman's Manage Your Project Portfolio