Summary Review: TinyPM has been very well designed to meet what the product owners believed it to be as "Tiny Effort, Perfect Management". I guess the tool blossoms with this very concept irrespective of which ever role the end user is into, be it a project manager, scrum master, product owner or development team members. In a nutshell TinyPM offers one of the best agile experience with Ideas sandbox, backlog management, iteration and release planning, a robust taskboard, project/budget/resource management along with a powerful information radiators, good integrations, tracking and knowledge management (wiki) capability. What makes it really different is how it hangs all of them together as a workflow driving the user on next steps with a brilliant visual presence. The product is best fit for small to medium project/program landscape with improving Kanban features.

The biggest challenge gaining acceptance of the tools implementing Kanban, Agile or Scrum is acceptance of the tool itself by all communities with in the enterprise. While Kanban is not just gaining wider accetpance at an enterprise level to deliver software but also being embraced by management at the top including CEO's as a way to track and achieve their targets with control. With such context LeanKit has managed to design a Kanban board which differentiatingly is the best up there, a step ahead of the rest. Would like to briefly share what i have seen in Kanban Board within LeanKit and the intellect with which it has been designed. 

Scrum is a great framework for building systems, it is simple, elegant and effective. However, it has one limitation that most teams quickly run into: small team size. Invariably, most major initiatives and programs require more than 7, plus or minus 2 people, in order to complete the work in a reasonable amount of time. Or, some organizations face the flip side of this where they run so many projects that the idea of dedicating half a dozen people full time to one initiative is overwhelming. In either case, these organizations are facing the challenge of managing a product pipeline. Let’s take a look at some of the techniques available to manage this within an Agile program. 

Its been a good experience to speak to various agile product suppliers and get their interesting views on journey deveoping the product, the outlook and vision into shpaing the products and the key trends. While its easy for us to get carried away with what you think and read on next trends in agile tooling, i was caught with a thought provoking insights speaking to Michael Dubakov, founder of "TargetProcess" about next key trend, TargetProcess focus and whats new in current release v.2.22