So recently in my travels around ye old www.informationsuperhighway.internet I came across a awesome new agile development tool and project management portal called Assembla. They have allot of the usual agile tools like trac, svn, milestones, scrum reports, file/image uploads, wiki etc.

Now thats not revolutionary (see unfuddled.com) by any stretch of the imagination but they have a couple of other good things going for them. One thing is that they offer allot for free. The cheap bastard in me loooves that. Unfuddled for instance offers a free service as well with allot of the same features but you are limited to one project, one user and a small amount of disk space for svn. Assembla is allot more giving. They don’t put a limit on the amount of team members or “spaces” (projects) that you can set up. They also give you 200 mb of disk space for svn which is very generous. On top of all that they have a interesting social aspects where you can set up public spaces which cater to distributed development teams and open source development approaches. There are some cool tools for doing staffing through the site.

They offer a premium service as well which adds in a ton of disk space, phone/email support, ssl and amazon s3 backups (very progressive). I haven’t gotten that deep into it to require that but I would think hands down this site would be worth it should the need arise.

Bottom line:
Assembla offers a really awesome service with a ton of powerful tools and approaches it in a very forward thinking manor and I applaud their efforts. Keep it up guys.