[bgidley]

Agile peaked with Extreme Programming and paper story cards, since then all that seems to have happened is the adoption of more tools/process that missed the whole point of it. The most productive project I ever worked on followed that method - but it's very hard to scale up.

I worked somewhere where we dumped our (very complicated) 'agile' tracking tool and went back to cards, and productivity increased, people actually communicated. We did eventually add in JIRA, to support remote team members but banned 'customization', 'workflows' and all the things that actually get in the way of being an Agile team.

[AnimalMuppet]

XP says that cards are tokens/mementos of conversations. That's the problem with Jira - the conversations didn't happen. All you have is electronic versions of the cards, but what made the cards useful is missing.

[badgersnake]

I'm also a fan of XP, but it really wants everyone to be in the same room.

JIRA escalates quickly. You're smart to put things in place to prevent that.

[jrs235]

Trello is enough for remote notecards... IMO.