ASAP: A LIGHTWEIGHT TOOL FOR AGILE PLANNING

Rasmus R. Petersen, Uffe K. Wiil

2009

Abstract

Supporting planning tasks of agile teams is a challenge. In this paper, we present a lightweight planning tool. ASAP is inspired by concepts and principles from spatial hypertext, which support information analysis tasks. ASAP runs on a large interactive vertical display on which electronic task cards can be organized into iterations and releases using card hierarchies and separators (a novel visual concept). Several views of the evolving plan are automatically generated to assist the agile team with overviews of tasks, estimates, and assignments. Views are instantly updated to reflect changes to the plan.

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Petersen R. and Wiil U. (2009). ASAP: A LIGHTWEIGHT TOOL FOR AGILE PLANNING . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-674-010-8, pages 265-272. DOI: 10.5220/0002240202650272


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft09,
author={Rasmus R. Petersen and Uffe K. Wiil},
title={ASAP: A LIGHTWEIGHT TOOL FOR AGILE PLANNING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2009},
pages={265-272},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002240202650272},
isbn={978-989-674-010-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - ASAP: A LIGHTWEIGHT TOOL FOR AGILE PLANNING
SN - 978-989-674-010-8
AU - Petersen R.
AU - Wiil U.
PY - 2009
SP - 265
EP - 272
DO - 10.5220/0002240202650272