Re: Seeking Extreme Perl "Story Card" application

Has anyone ever built and released an online implementation of the "story card", advocated by Extreme Perl in Chapter 4, at: http://www.extremeperl.org/bk/release-planning which can be used by developers and clients who work together by phone, fax, email and web, but don't know what one another actually look like?

If I'm forced to have a distributed team and can't have everybody using cards locally then I just use a wiki with one-page-per-story. Kwiki does the job quite nicely.

If you want more sophisticated stuff take a look at tools like Xplanner. There's a list on http://xprogramming.com/software.htm.

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Re^2: Seeking Extreme Perl "Story Card" application by virtualsue (Vicar) on Apr 06, 2006 at 13:40 UTC
I work for a global company where distributed teams are the norm rather than the exception, and the groups which use 'agile' development practices also tend to use wikis for this purpose. They are already using them for documenting things and sharing information anyway, so it's a natural extension to use them for capturing stories as well.	[reply]
Re^2: Seeking Extreme Perl "Story Card" application by t'mo (Pilgrim) on Apr 07, 2006 at 03:21 UTC
My current team at work was using XPlanner for a while...but we didn't like it too much. We've since gone back to index cards (since the majority of us aren't distributed; for the rest we just let our manager move the cards around). One thing you might want to look at, though, is webnote. It's Python, not Perl, but it's so cool, who cares? :-) Actually, most of the cool stuff is JavaScript; the server-side stuff seems pretty simple, and if you've got your heart set on Perl, it shouldn't be too hard to port. Finally, I agree with the other posters that a wiki would be a good choice. And my favorite? The one I wrote, of course - sk - a (very) simple wiki. ...every application I have ever worked on is a glorified munger...	[reply]