What is the downside of an online tool? Mostly reduced flexibility compared to cards. A physical
taskboard is a much more effective Information Radiator than a web page and cards are extremely
productive for the kind of group work that occurs in Scrum — brainstorming stories, sprint planning and
the retrospectives. A program structures information the way it was designed to. If your needs are
different or simply not envisioned by the tool, then you have to figure out a work around.
Pros Cons
• Works for distributed teams
• Works for large teams
• Real-time reporting
• Integrated solution, provide connectors to
source control, but tracking, etc.
• Limited visibility
• Sometimes hard to adopt for existing
development process
• Significant learning curve
• Maybe quite expensive