Interactive Project Planning and Management Tool for Agile Software Development Teams

Abstract

Agile software development emerged in the late 1990s, as an iterative and incremental approach to develop software exibly in a collaborative team. Scrum has now become one of the most popular Agile methods for supporting project planning and management. The main objective of this project was to develop a touch-based project planning and management tool for Scrum software development team. Currently, traditional paper-based tools and desktop-based applications contain several issues and weaknesses which in uence the effectiveness and e ciency of project planning and management, such as proneness to loss and damage, and loss of tangibility respectively. Therefore, a software tool that combines the advantages and overcomes the weaknesses of existing tools needs to be developed. The software should be able to preserve the tangibility of paper-based tools and the systematic nature of desktop-based application as much as possible. We analyzed existing tools and applications to gather initial requirements for our proposed tool. We then used iterative and incremental development methodology to implement the proposed features on a touch table. A touch table allows natural manipulation of artefact and also preserves the digital advantages of previous desktop-based tools. To assess the usability of this touch-based project planing and management tool, a usability study was conducted. Several re nements were applied to the software following feedback from participants. Results and analysis of the usability evaluation study provide insights into the usability and usefulness of our tool, how it compare to previous work, as well as provides implications for practice and future work.