Best Agile Tools for Software Development

Keep your user stories, tasks, and bugs, updated with the latest information with ease. Prioritize using hashtags, add detailed information using markdown descriptions, and upload files to give your team the entire context to stay agile.

Derisk:

• Misaligned teams
• Working on low impact features

• Advanced Filters
• Hashtags
• Descriptions
• File attachments

Zepel has deep integrations with GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. With this, you can link an item of any type with a:

1. Branch
2. Commit
3. Pull Request

Once linked, Zepel can automatically update the status and keep everyone updated of the progress. This allows developers to stay focussed on the work without having to worry about keeping the tool updated.

Eliminate:

• Out of sync teams
• Delayed progress updates

• GitHub Integration
• Bitbucket Integration
• GitLab Integration

Not every kanban board software is an agile software tool. Kanban Boards in an agile project management tool enables you to gain complete visibility into what's happening within your team at any time.

Zepel's Kanban Boards allow you to view what's next in every single team involved.

Eliminate:

• Misaligned team members
• Unclear path to what to work on next
• Confusion towards who owns a specific piece of work

• Multiple Kanban Boards
• Kanban Cards
• Columns as Statuses

Burndown reports help you and your team to know exactly how much work is pending in the sprint. With Zepel's burndown chart, you can see:

1. How your team is making progress throughout the sprint.
2. Understand if you will complete all the work items in the sprint within the deadline.

With Zepel's real-time burndown charts, you can sleep better knowing you can identify roadblocks within your team before it's too late.

Derisk:

• Delay in shipping the feature
• Not achieving the sprint goal

• Burndown chart in Sprints

Story points are at the centre of an agile project management tool for scrum teams. Using story points, teams can estimate, track, and view reports to become more efficient in furture sprints. With its help along with advanced filters, teams can manage workload of individual members.

Derisk:

• Reduce unpredictability
• Overloading teammates

• `/e` shortcut command
• Aggregated estimation points
• Agile reports

A cumulative flow diagram shows you how many work items are present in each column at any given time. This allows teams to identify roadblocks by seeing the number of work items in a specific column stagnate for a long time or when the work items increase in a column specific column.

Eliminate:

• Roadblocks

• Cumulative flow diagram
• Kanban Boards

Scrum board helps you gain visibility into your team's progress. And enables your team to visualize all their work in the Sprint.

Since every team has their own way of working, Zepel enables you to customize the scrum board to fit your team's needs. And the best part is, you can do all of it without having to go through a configuration nightmare.

Derisk:

• Never stay in the dark on your team's progress
• Eliminate the possibility of being out of sync

• Scrum Boards
• Advanced filters in scrum board

Advanced Filters enables you to find the exact work item you're looking for with just a couple of clicks. With the right filters set, you can:

1. Manage workload
2. See what a specific person is working on
3. Track progress of a specific team and many more!

Eliminate:

• Roadblocks
• Overworking your teammates

• Filter Board by Assignee
• Filter Board by Sprints
• Filter Board by Hashtags
• Filter Board by Item Type

Burnup reports are essentially the opposite version of a burndown chart. They help you and your team to know exactly how much work is completed in the sprint.

Using Zepel's burnup chart, you can know if you'll complete the sprint on time even before deadline and sleep better knowing you can identify roadblocks before it's too late.

Derisk:

• Delay in shipping the feature
• Not achieving the sprint goal

• Burnup chart in Sprints

Every agile team runs a standup meeting. Zepel, as an agile tool, enables you to run it efficiently.

With the combination of scrum boards, advanced filters, and agile reports, Zepel enables you to get a quick snapshot of the progress and have an effective scrum standup meeting.

Derisk:

• Unable to keep the team in-sync

• Sprints
• Scrum boards
• Advanced filters
• Agile reports

Write rich, formatted descriptions using Markdown and provide your team with complete context easily.

Zepel's markdown description enable you to share detailed information using:

• Headings
• Bold & Italics
• Images
• Code Blocks
• Lists
• Blockquote
• Links
• Pre-formatted texts
• Horizontal rules

Story cards enable kanban teams to view all the information related to a particular work item in their agile tool without any hassle.

Zepel's Kanban Board shows you the most relevant information for every work item. In a glance, know the work's status, who it is assigned to, how many comments it has, and even a preview of the attached image. And if you've integrated Zepel with GitHub, Bitbucket, or GitLab, with one just click you can also see pull requests.

Derisk:

• Building features without full context
• Having out-of-sync team members

• Kanban Boards
• Kanban Cards
• Descriptions & Comments
• File Attachments
• Git Integrations

Every team works uniquely. That's why it's essential that the agile project management tool you use allows you to build custom, flexible workflows without having to go through messy configuration setup.

Zepel allows you to create multiple Boards within your project, so you can easily build custom workflows that is tailor-made to fit your team's needs. This also allows you to move any work item from one column to another AND from one Board to another with none of the hassle.

Eliminate:

• Unnecessary complexity
• Configuration nightmares
• Learning a cluttered software
• Slow onboarding

• Multiple Kanban Boards
• Columns
• Board Statuses

Sprint planning is an essential agile tool for scrum teams. It sets the tone for what the team will build during the sprint.

Zepel's dedicated Sprint view makes it effortless for teams to view how many estimation points worth of work is added to the sprint. This enables teams to adjust their sprint scope and reprioritize their work in real-time.

Derisk:

• Over-loading your team
• Building low quality features

• Sprint overview
• Estimation points
• Aggregated estimation points

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