Are there specific agile tools?
Yes, there are specific Agile tools, but they aren’t required to use the Agile methodology. However, not all traditional project management and other tools work well with Agile. “Traditional project management, requirements management, test management and test automation tools are, however, generally a bad fit for Agile teams,” cautioned Hendrickson. “They make too many assumptions about workflow that are based on a waterfall model, they are too cumbersome, and they get in the way more than they help.” Some companies configure their own existing tools in an Agile way. And others use index cards and sticky notes to follow the methodology. “We use a lot of open source tools for implementing Agile,” said Matsumura. “They tend to go hand in hand.” For example, Matsumura’s development group uses JIRA software to help with things like requirements management, collaboration and unit testing. Service-now.com has an ITIL-based tool that includes release management and feature management tools t
