success 25258 xcards 2008-10-07T17:11:52Z 2008-10-09T19:01:15Z This is a project that I've open sourced so that we can get a larger community base involved in building a simple, card-based planning and tracking tool. The project is written in Ruby on Rails and is intended to use heavy Ajax for an easy to use, rich user interface. Thanks to Josh Knowles, Karmen Blake, Barry Kaplan, Steve Bate (XPlanner author) and Stan Green for discussions over the years on the perfect Agile tool and to James Deville for putting a boot to our arses and getting this project finally started. We use xcards on itself, see (URL TBD) for a demonstration (and also for our officially hosted xcards project). I'm looking forward to see guys like Chance Anderson put a super professional user Ajax user interface on this simple tool. The primary motive of this tool is to provide a SIMPLE and EFFECTIVE agile planning and tracking tool. We have chosen the metaphor of a card. Each unit of estimatable work is written on it's own card. The estimates of the cards can be easily summed up and project duration/cost scenarios can be generated/edited and instantiated - tracking against multiple projects is a long-term goal of this project - using the notion of project scenarios to help cost and track projects. See also our discussion list at http://groups.google.com/group/xcards-developers. Let's try to put most of our design and development discussion onto this list as possible. Screenshots can be viewed at http://code.google.com/p/xcards/wiki/ScreenShots thanks, -- John Goodsen, john.goodsen@gmail.com Extreme Programmer & Coach Founder/President, RADSoft http://radsoft.com http://code.google.com/p/xcards xcards 0 0 281715 281715 25258 2008-11-08T03:51:11Z 2008-11-08T03:51:11Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-08-01T00:00:00Z 2 222944 12 Ruby mit MIT License