User:KTucker/My Sandbox/Agile Tools

The following illustrates a template useful in issue trackers and for any projects aspiring towards agile production/development.

Issue Tracker/ Progress monitor
For any issue the colours indicate the effort required to resolve the issue, the issue's priority and progress. In my years as a software developer I had an interest in agile methodologies (among other things, like patterns, object-orientation, ...), the work of people like Alistair Cockburn, Martin Fowler, Peter Coad, Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, et al. Over the years the teams I worked with applied variations on Extreme Programming (xP), SCRUM, and Feature Driven development (FDD) (to name a few approaches). This issue tracker is reminiscent of FDD but may be for anything requiring monitoring of progress and discussion.

The template itself may be found here: Template:Issue, and the colour key here.

Samples:

WE WG Issue Tracker Description
Colours of issue headers indicate: Top left cell (priority): high, medium , low Title cell (effort): none/done (/), trivial, easy/routine (/), tricky , unknown or known to be difficult. Right column (status/progress): done, not started , on hold , ahead , on track , behind , in trouble.

Sub-test: