August 14, 2003

Web XP iteration planning tool

XPlanner - Looks nifty, although I bet JIRA will eventually have most (if not all) of these features. That’s an aspect of buying software for your developers that I never see mentioned: try to buy from a vendor somewhat like your own so the dogfood features the vendor needs will overlap with your own. As a corollary it may be worth a second thought buying software from a company radically different than your own – companies with a thousand employees generally have different needs than those with twenty.

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