After investigating a little bit scrum and kanban, I finally read this answer and decided to start using kanban, picking something from scrum (note that I'm working mostly by myself, and I do have read this question and its answers).

Now, my question is: which tool would be best to get started?

1. whiteboard and postit
2. agilezen.com
3. JIRA with greenhopper
4. a spreadsheet (possibly on Google Docs)
5. brightgreenprojects.com
6. Agilo
7. Target Process
8. something else (please specify)

Notes about each:

1. I would lean towards the whiteboard, but there are several drawbacks (e.g. cannot make automatic charts, time measurements, metrics, and sometimes I work from home - where I need it most - and it's not convenient to carry :-)

2. I don't want to remember another username/password (I promised to myself to signup only to OpenID-enabled services)

3. My employer has JIRA but my group doesn't use it - I might ask for an account (it shouldn't require another password) and maybe later involve the rest of the group. But I don't know if they are using greenhopper and if it's a big deal installing it.

4. I generally hate spreadsheets

5. maybe overkill?

6. I'd be happy to have a localhost instance, but it could be problematic to give access to the whole group (per network/firewalls) - not a deal-breaker but surely a concern

What I'd like to get from this?

• being more productive
• tracking how much time I spend in any given task, possibly discussing the issue with my supervisor
• tracking what "blocks" me most often
• immediately see where I am compared to my schedule
• manage in a better way my long todo list (e.g. answering faster to the "what I should do next?" question)

Do you have any suggestion?

Note on the scrumish tag: read the Henrik Kniberg's PDF. He first introduced the definition of scrumish on page 9.