What Project Management software do you recommend

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At the place I am working we are moving to a more agile approach to project management.

For tool support for project management I used MS Project and Target Process in the past. But I think they both have serious weaknesses:

• MS Project is not very intuitive and therefore hard to use especially for novice users. It doesn't really fit the agile approach
• Target Process seems only half done. E.g. users can set their own privileges to admin. Size of user stories is measured in hours instead of a unitless size which I think is really a bad idea. The UI feels bloated and overly complicated not really supporting usage by keyboard only.

We are also using Jira for Issue Tracking and I guess one could modify it and add some custom fields/reports to make it an agile project management tool.

So my question is: What software tools do you use for agile project management and what do you like or dislike about it?

Addition: I am aware that physical tools like a whiteboard or post-its are in a sense the perfect tool but if you want to get an overview about what is going on in the complete company it is kind of cumbersome to run from office to office to look at the whiteboards or to force people to copy it in a different kind of document. A similiar argument applies if you are working in a setting where the customer is not on site.

I'll try to list some features I'd consider interesting:

• easy accessible by management, customer, team potentially from different sites. This almost requires a web app.
• option to configure the app to fit the flavor of agile preferred by the team or company
• it should allow multiple people to access it in parallel. E.g. a developer marking a task/story as done, shouldn't block the customer from adding a new task. This pretty much rules out Excel.
• Nice usability for keyboard only usage, at least for things like updating a lot of stories or adding a lot of stories
• Ability to integrate with Jira (entries there should become tasks or something in the system, changes should get synchronized or at least be impossible if they don't get synchronized) and SVN (commit comments with a story id should appear in the tool)
• Ability to integrate with other systems using a Java API.

Answer 1

Axosoft's OnTime

Answer 2

There's a new tool - Bright Green Projects. It allows you to capture and prioritize requirements, build estimates, manage iterations, track issues.. etc. Nice interface and really easy to use: http://www.brightgreenprojects.com

Answer 3

My team is using Rally. I also used VersionOne a few years ago, but I think Rally is better. I am not an expert in all features, but I think it does most of the things you need. Don't even try MS project ...