Finally, we have an XPlanner installation working on Linux. We are starting a new sprint, so I thought, hey I should try this. I happily entered data into XPlanner, putting in our story estimates, and then putting in our task estimates. Little do I know in current version of XPlanner, there’s no disjoint unit for story estimates and task estimates. As soon as you enter in tasks, their estimates are totalled and override the story one. This is really bad for us as it provides no way to track story points.

As a developer stated in their forum, XPlanner right now is good for iteration tracking. However, it can’t be used for release planning right now, which is really what story points are supposed to help you. He did say in the newer version (0.8), they have much better release planning support. Until then, it’s back to ScrumWorks Basic for my team. It doesn’t have the bells and whistles that I liked in XPlanner for iteration reporting, but it works for now.

I will still be keeping my eyes on XPlanner though. Afterall, it’s still not version 1.