Tabletop AgilePlanner: A tabletop-based project planning tool for agile software development teams
Xin Wang, Frank Maurer · 2008
This paper introduces the Tabletop AgilePlanner, an advanced prototype that applies tabletop technology to support collocated and distributed agile planning meetings. By introducing the novel tabletop-based project planning tool, this paper contributes to the agile and tabletop research in threefold: First, it provides real world experience of using a digital tabletop to solve practical problems, not just a demonstration of tabletop capabilities. Second, it shows a multipart usability evaluation that exposes the benefits and limitations of using digital tabletop to develop project planning applications. Third, it expresses some trade-offs that impact the design of the Tabletop AgilePlanner. Since the design experience and trade-offs come from a real practice, this paper provides insights into the construction of real world tabletop applications.