Tabletop AgilePlanner: A tabletop-based project planning tool for agile software development teams

Abstract

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.