How does agile development work in TeamForge?

TeamForge helps you maximize your agile team's effectiveness by keeping you in close touch with the multiple moving targets facing your project.

In an agile development project, each piece of the picture constantly changes in response to changes in the other parts. As you continue to iterate through the process, a feedback loop like this takes shape. (Click a node for more detail.)

What is a product owner?The product owner works with the users, or customers, to define how a product can address their needs and wishes. What is a project leader?The project leader takes user stories created by the product owner and works with the project team to manage the process of analyzing, scheduling and executing them. Project teamAs a member of a project team, you implement product features according to user stories created by the product owner and planning input from the project leader. Define scopeDefining scope is an iterative, interactive process. As you go through it, you'll find elements of your scope expanding, shrinking or changing shape in response to feedback from analyzing and planning out the work. Plan workCreate and populate all the planning folders you need to capture the work you are planning. Monitor resultsRegularly test and measure the features your team produces, involving real users as much as possible. Watch burndownBurndown is the estimated amount of work that remains to be done in an iteration, compared with the work that was originally estimated. Feature treeA feature tree is a way to look at planned product features hierarchically, so you can quickly understand the relationships among product features you have specified. Planning foldersA planning folder is a virtual container that helps you organize and plan the work that goes into delivering a product. Watch burndownUpdating the information in tracker artifacts is one important way that project members can work together effectively.
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