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I would like to write reviews of several Agile tools that will help people to choose the best one tool according to their needs. 

We, a team of Ainstainer Group, believe when managing distributed teams the choice of the right tool is vital.

So, we decided to create a new poll via SurveyMonkey.

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Kanban is a scheduling system and thanks to it you can easily monitor your team’s workflow. It tells you what should be done, when and by whom.  In software development it is a board with a number of placeholders for work to be done. You and your team create separate tasks and place them on it. When the task is completed, you just relocate it to the “done” column.

Among the main advantages of Kanban boards are their simplicity and visualization of the working process.  You and your team always know what others team’s members do just now without asking them about it.

A lot of teams use ordinary whiteboards with stickers as Kanban boards. It really works, but not in case of distributed teams, when members are located in different offices, cities or even countries. One more point against ordinary whiteboards, is that it is not convenient to use it when your team is more than 5 members, as you should have several boards to place all the tasks. Moreover, you should take a photo of the each status’s change of the tasks to analyze the team’s workflow.

If you are reading this article, probably you know what is Scrum about and for what it is used. Since it invention in 1993 many things has happened, the world has endured several crisis, we were witnesses of sound bankruptcies, merger, acquisitions etc. The 21st century world is constantly moving forward. And, in order to catch the wave and be on the spot of any industry, we should evolve constantly, especially high-intellectual businesses such as Information technologies (IT) companies.

IT Sourcing Europe (http://www.itsourcing-europe.com/) in its white paper:

"Myths and Truth Every European SME Should Know About Software Development Outsourcing": A White Paper by IT Sourcing Europe  (you can download it here for free) explains what benefits small sized companies can gain when outsourcing to nearshore countries (Ukraine).

One of the best known tools for agile project management is VersionOne. This tool in the Enterprise edition is the first one that we review in our agile tools review series.

VersionOne as Enterprise edition is a very mature and powerful tool for managing agile teams.