I posted a bit of research I did for some externally hosted tools previously. Here is a quick rundown of some self-hosted tools.

• VersionOne Community (free - I've used it and I like it, 5 user limit)
• XPlanner (free OSS, seems good, hasn't been updated since 2006)
• RedMine (free OSS, not really agile, more of an issue tracker like Jira)
• ScrumWorks Basic (free, pro version has more features)
• AgileTrack (new to me, seems to cover the bases - didn't see any burn down charts)
• VersionOne Team (like V1 Community except you get support)
• Project Cards (new to me, seems to cover the bases - didn't see any burn down charts. The UI looks a little MS Access)
• OnTime Express (not agile out of the box, but can be customized to support, similar to
  JIRA+Confluence in that underneath it is an issue tracker and a wiki)
• ExtremePlanner (nice simple system)
• Trichord (more lean than agile, kanban + burndown - interesting)
• OnTime Pro (more features than OnTime Express)
• TargetProcess On-site (new to me, seems similar to V1 and Rally)
• Jira Enterprise (an issue tracking system, but combined with GreenHopper can be very agile)
• VersionOne Enterprise (unlimited users)
• ScrumWorks Pro (more features than Basic)

There are several free options here 2 commercial and 2 OSS. If I only needed 5 users I'd pick V1 otherwise I'd go with XPlanner. There seems to be a sweet spot around $2000. In this range I'd pick either Trichord or ExtremePlanner.

Update: See the list of self hosted agile PM tools

I've been researching agile PM tools to decide if we want to continue using our existing tool, switch to another or go 100% manual.

There are a few vendors that provide a hosted service:

• Rally Community (free, but limited to 5 users, a single project and minimal charting)
  
• BaseCamp (not really agile, but widely used)
• VersionOne Team (nice system I've used before and like. The Team version is limited to 5 users)
• Acunote (new to me, seems very complete)
• Jira/Confluence Enterprise (an issue tracking system, but combined with GreenHopper can be very agile)
• ExtremePlanner Live (nice simple system)
• TargetProcess On-demand (new to me, seems similar to V1 and Rally)
• VersionOne Enterprise (unlimited users)
• OnTime Pro (not agile out of the box, but can be customized to support, similar to JIRA+Confluence in that underneath it is an issue tracker and a wiki)
• Rally Enterprise (unlimited users & projects)
• Mingle (seems to cover the bases - agile tracking + wiki, but very expensive)
  
• Wrike (new to me, seems similar to Acunote with lots of support for distributed teams)
  

There are 3 clear groupings for me. Free or nearly free which includes Rally Community, BaseCamp and VersionOne Team. The middle group ranges from $2,400-$3,200. Starting with Extreme Planner Live you are looking at from $7,500-$17,000.

If I had a very small team I would look at Rally Community or V1 Team. For a larger teams I think AcuNote hits the sweet spot. If I had a distributed team Wrike would be worth checking out.

This is not to say that I am refuting our move away from iterations etc. into the "Post Agile" world, rather I am releasing the results of work I did leading up to that decision.

Scott Hanselman has started a podcast called HanselMinutes to talk tools and utilities. Episode #4 on Continuous Integration caught my attention because of 2 names mentioned during the discussion of the Ruby Watir library. Both Dustin Woodhouse and Travis Illig got mentioned because of tools they have written to integrate the Watir functionality at development or test time. Travis wrote RubyTestExecutor which hooks Ruby/Watir scripts up with NUnit. Dustin wrote WatirNUt which is a utility that creates a portable, testable NUnit binary wrapper around Watir test scripts and supporting files.

These two individuals and their tools are interesting to me because they both work on teams I manage and I'm excited to see my guys pushing the envelope.

Scott was also kind enough to mention me as one of the local XP experts (my 30 seconds of podcast fame).

Borland has released a version of Together Developer that integrates into VS.NET. Check out the screen casts. I'm thinking that Together combined with ReSharper from JetBrains could be one killer combination.

I've come to rely on this great little utility from Steve Miller.

Have you ever copied some text from a web page, a word document, help, etc., and wanted to paste it as simple text into another application without getting all the formatting from the original source? PureText makes this simple. Just copy/cut whatever you want to the clipboard, click on the PureText tray icon, and then paste to any application.  Better yet, you can configure a Hot-Key to convert and paste the text for you.  The pasted text will be pure and free from all formatting.