ScrumDesk for Web is available
ScrumDesk, web edition for small Agile teams, is available now. With this edition we focused on small teams that do not need huge tool with lot of features, but need to accomplish the results quickly. Such teams typically apply fundamental [...]
Certified ScrumMaster workshop in Bratislava, Slovakia
Even summer has just started, do not forget to think about your future career. The demand of the market for great ScrumMasters is increasing in the last years. Even certification doesn't mean you will be great ScrumMaster, it can help you [...]
ScrumDesk 6.0.32.118: Improved stability
Few customers informed us this week about crashes of ScrumDesk for Windows once it has been started. As prevention, we added additional validations at places where we assumed the code might crash. All users will be informed about the [...]
ScrumDesk 6.0.32.117: Minor fixes
Changes: [Fix] Effort of user story incorrectly increased by 1 when task is added Few visual and user interfaces improvements Send us your additional request to support@scrumdesk.com.
ScrumDesk Project Management Web edition. Back to the Agile roots
Back to the Agile roots ScrumDesk is for Windows. Yes, with the Desktop edition until now. But not anymore. Because ScrumDesk Start edition will be born officially soon. When we were discussing ScrumDesk history, the development of product backlog since 2007, the [...]
ScrumDesk Windows 6.0: Backlog Markers, Kanban plus Agile Coach
Top features of version 6.0 Product Backlog Visual Markers Boards Due dates for stories and tasks New design of story side view Themes for story templates Kanban boards improvements Kanban statistics and cumulative flow chart Project related retrospective ideas [...]
Daily Stand-up IV. Scrum Master and scrumastership
ScrumMaster is baking the daily bread on the daily stand-up. During these meetings his abilities and knowledge are uncovered. There is a possibility to pick up some useful information about the Scrum Mastership during the certification or specialized trainings [...]
Agile Tips #1: Ideas for Scrum Master
The suggestions for this week are as follow: Top Five Tips for Starting Agile Talk: Jeff Lawson on Software Development Adopting Agile When Your Management Style is Mostly Command and Control Getting started with Acceptance-Test Driven Development [...]
Scrum and Agile tips
The suggestions for this week are as follow: The article on the importance of modeling in Agile times, especially when development is built on multiple teams and shared understanding 40 minutes long talk about the correlation between safety and [...]
Daily Stand-up. Forgot the rules!
Although Agile looks chaotic in practice at first glance, good agile teams take heed to the rules agreed upon in a team. Rules for the daily stand-up Rules for the daily stand-up should cover the following: Where will be [...]
Daily Stand-up done well II.
We approached the reasons for the regular meetings of the team in the first post. Another issue ScumMaster should consider is where the daily stand-up would be held. This topic is obviously more important for the non-distributed teams. The stand-up [...]
Daily Stand-up done well I.
The daily stand-up is an essential Scrum ceremony that is (luckily) often applied without any further official formalization, especially in small companies where cooperation is still based on conversation. Suddenly these meetings turn down in intensity after several months. [...]
ScrumImpulz 2013, the Agile conference
Proces a agile (pre ScrumImpulz 2013) from ScrumDesk Agile in large organizations from Zuzi Sochova Ján Masaryk, Zavádzanie Agile vo veľkej spoločnosti Fix price-with-scrum eng from agilesk Roman Jurkech - Agilne na testing v Agile from agilesk [...]
James Heidema, Agile for sales & non-IT teams workshop
IT companies apply agile principles and methods to intensify the speed of delivery and its cadence while increasing the business value delivered to customers. But can be agile implemented in non-IT companies as well? The answer is yes. Agile [...]
Certified Product Owner course in Bratislava by Robin Dymond
The next event in our Become Agile Leader serie is certification of product owners that will be provided by Robin Dymond. The course will be held in Bratislava (Slovakia) on May 7-8th. About course In this two-day class we [...]