ScrumDesk 6.36.1: Project Status Overview
Project Status Overview Charts Product owners need to have an understanding of the overall status of the product backlog from multiple perspectives. Especially when it needs to be discussed with stakeholders and sponsors. With Project Status Overview chart, ScrumDesk now allows to see: The status of backlog items as [...]
ScrumDesk 6.35.2: Project Control Lead Time Chart
Project Lead time (control) chart The Project Lead Time chart (also known as Control chart in other tools) is helpful to Scrum Masters who take care of one of the most important metrics for an agile company - the lead time. Measuring it, an agile team can answer the [...]
ScrumDesk 6.34: Treemap and Analysis Reports for Product Owners
New reports Backlog Treemap The most important job of the product owner is to understand the product backlog at any point in time. The product owner needs to know what to plan as the next, what was delivered and when, what is blocking backlog items, and who. You will [...]
ScrumDesk 6.33.2: Minor changes and fixes
This time we published a few fixes and minor changes improving the usability of the ScrumDesk application to help you manage your projects easier: Dialoge Unfinished backlog items displayed when is not necessary. Work by task type, time perspective, numbers on X-axis divided by 60. Projects are still displayed [...]
Find what is important to develop with new reports
Finish sprint faster. Decide on incomplete items at once. It is an end of the sprint and Product Owner needs to complete the current sprint, but there are still incompleted items. It is necessary to go over the Kanban board and find all of them, click all of them [...]
ScrumDesk 6.32: Objectives and Key Results + Dependencies
New features in ScrumDesk v. 6.32 Objectives and Key Results Dependencies tracking Faster time tracking Filter improvements Billable work Change hierarchy in the STORY MAP Measure spent time vs. capacity planned Recurring payments Objectives and Key Results (OKR) — track goals with ScrumDesk Agile is a great tool for [...]
ScrumDesk 6.31: Convert Backlog Items to Epics
Convert backlog item to a feature or epic Sometimes might happen that the user story is bigger than thought originally. In such a case the Product Owner had to create a new epic, enter necessary details and move backlog items to it. For such a situation, we added a [...]
ScrumDesk 6.30.1: Clone Tasks
Clone task After few years, the agile squad used to find a structure of subtasks that are repeated for every backlog item. ScrumDesk offers the possibility to define story templates in such case, but sometimes quicker action is necessary. Clone subtask Now it is easy to clone a [...]
ScrumDesk 6.29.1: Improved Root Cause Analysis Editor + Kanban
Root Cause Analysis Editor We are glad to see more and more (and especially experienced) agile teams use the Root Cause Analysis editor to build a shared understanding of the reasons for their impediments. This way agile teams can focus on the true cause of the problem instead of [...]
ScrumDesk 5.27.2: Archive Epic. Bring transparency into the product backlog
Archive epic From this version, you can archive not just release, but epics as well. ScrumDesk is used by customers in multiple ways. Some customers prefer epics as long-term containers of user stories. This is especially useful for product development where epics represent bigger functionality. Some other customers prefer [...]
ScrumDesk 5.27.1: Free Guest Accounts for Stakeholders
Guest accounts for free Do you want to play fair & transparently in front of your clients, stakeholders, or managers? Invite them to your organization account and then assign them to projects as guests. Guests are able: to read everything, to actively comment tasks, be mentioned and notified via [...]
ScrumDesk 5.26: Roadmap Editor improvements
Roadmaps Editor Real start and end These fields are calculated based on the progress of nested backlog items once their subtask were started. New Delta fields They indicate how much late or earlier the feature has been developed comparing to plans specified in a roadmap. Other changes of the roadmap [...]
ScrumDesk Roadmaps are here!
Do you take care of the complex agile project developed with one or more scrum teams? Are your teams dislocated? Or do you manage product portfolio with the help of ScrumDesk? Now you can do scheduling of the project in ScrumDesk not just with releases or sprints. ScrumDesk Roadmaps are an [...]
ScrumDesk 5.25.1: Archive old Releases
ScrumDesk is available for more than three years already and many customers finished dozens of releases and sprints. Now is the best time to forget them! With this version, you can archive release, its sprints, and backlog items so they are not loaded anymore in BACKLOG, PLAN or WORK views. [...]
How to work with Kanban board
Agile teams track their tasks on a Kanban board that visualize the status of work with help of multiple columns. Every column means some status. The team member should move task cards between these statuses to indicate on which task he works. Which tasks have been done and which [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Education track
Did you know that Agile can help students to learn in a more fun, collaborative and results-oriented way? How? More than 100 schools in Slovakia apply eduScrum already in the learning process. That definitely help grow our future colleagues ready for future innovative products that have to be built [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Willy Wijnands, eduScrum
Does the education system prepare our children and young generation for future needs? A lot of people have a feeling that there must be a different way how to educate. Of course we are not teachers and therefore we do not want to state how it should be. But [...]
Why are Agile Manifesto Principles so important?
On Agile briefly Agile methods are methods that apply iterative and evolutionary development. 12 agile principles employ adaptive planning, promote incremental delivery, and include other values and practices that encourage agility. What does that really mean for software development? What are the implications for daily business? Let's analyze these [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Karel Smutny
Four years ago, I spent a couple of months in Prague, a beautiful city in Czechia. We supported the agile transition of the big insurance company for a few months so I had a lot of time to spend there. What is natural behaviour for agile enthusiasts? To look [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Marcus Hamrin, Spotify
Spotify. Well know the name of the company that has changed our behavior how we do listen to music. Not so many years ago we were used to listening to CD, later to MP3 or Internet radio. We were buying albums. Of course, this movement has started to be [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Martin Kubik
The first time I met Martin Kubik, I was a little bit curious about how he is going to react to the agile transformation program he wanted to talk about. I expected a formal speech, questions that will make him feel comfortable and questions regarding our experience. Well, the [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Andrea Provaglio
The first time I saw Andrea Provaglio, I was quite new in Agile. Andrea shared of kinds of stuff that were pretty 'high-soft-system-level' for me at that time. But man, one year later I realized what he talked about. It is not usual to see a speaker whose speech [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Peter Benkovič
ScrumImpulz conference is not just about speakers from abroad. Since the first year of the conference, we offered an opportunity to speak to local people who experienced Agile some way and had stories to share so we, who still fight with agile mindset and transformations, can learn from their [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Silvana Wasitova
It has been ages since we, from ScrumDesk, attended and sponsored the first year of Agile Prague conference. Dozens of speakers, hundred plus people and a lot of knowledge and energy. The day before the conference sponsors went out for dinner with speakers. In a very friendly atmosphere, I [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Jorgen Hesselberg
Eight years ago I had a super great opportunity to help NAVTEQ (today is known as HERE) company go through Agile Transformation. Well, it didn't start with BigBen approach. In the beginning, it was more driven in guerilla tactic in Europe without formal approval. Starting in Kosice, on vendor's (Ness Technologies [...]
ScrumImpulz conference about Agile practices on May 30th in Bratislava
We would like to invite you to attend the 7th year of ScrumImpulz conference, the only conference about Agile practices in Slovakia. The conference is going to happen on May 30, 2019, in the Hotel Vienna House Easy in Bratislava city. ScrumDesk company is, outside of Slovakia, known as [...]
Certified ScrumMaster course, December 11-12, 2018, Bratislava
Course Certified Scrum Master, Bratislava, 11-12.12.2018 Scrum training with a practical approach. Develops necessary knowledge and experience to deal with the most common challenges. The most popular of Agile training. This two-day training prepares for performing the role of a Scrum Master and the Scrum team mentor. It is conducted [...]
Write User Story correctly
A few years ago, Mike Cohn promoted a user-story format of requirements. Since then, every requirement has become accustomed to being a user story in Scrum. Even then, when it is not considered to be a good one and even if it is not written in this format. User [...]
19 ideas to help improve agile KPI
At the turning point of the year, it’s time for the interviews in companies. Favorite review of last year’s work and proposal of new goals. Plus, their KPI. Key Performance Indicators. At the given time, it was a topic of the week for me. I saw interesting KPI: Your [...]
Progress Measurement in Agile Product Management
Oh, that's a great idea once again. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%. Apparently, the feature is 79% done. Round of applause, that’s a nice number. Nicer than 78%. Masturpercentobation. But what Jeff has to do with that, yes, that user Jeff. Team: ‘Ugh nothing we can do now, we have to wait 3 [...]
Manager and Agile
A story about a leader and management motivated to actively support Agile. Just the title sounds like an oxymoron to those of us, who apply Agile principles. Yes, I have to affirm that Agile is often perceived by management as another toy for the developers. That’s why the implication [...]
Definition of Ready example from a real-life
The Definition of Ready helps save a lot of money on development for little effort. Or, why define requirements properly. The Punkers team The Punkers have been the worse team for a client and their management for several years now. Their requirements are constantly stretched, and even if they [...]
Too many requirements. Just too many…
Lots of requirements. Lots and lots and lots A story about what will your ‘Yes’ answer cause in the long run. Lots of work. If it was about fire being once here and once there. But the fire burns always, everywhere and every single day. We develop a number of [...]
How to build a great agile team when everybody is an expert?
Yet another week of mentoring is over; the next team is ready, and another one is prepared. This time, it was, as always, quite unique and exciting. As I always say. We met a new team of people, working in a successful company, and even though they’ve been sitting [...]
Timofey Yevgrashyn, Agile Transformations, ScrumImpulz 2018
The keynote on Agile Transformations by Timofey Yevgrashyn at ScrumImpulz 2018 conference on Agile.
We introduce #ScrumImpulz 2018 speaker: Stanislava Pendziviaterova, Navigating Disruption – Why is integrated risk critical in Agile environments?
Stanislava Pendziviaterova is Certified System Information Auditor (ISACA), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Controls (ISACA), an organizational agile coach, and a global speaker. She has over 10 years of business risk management and coaching experience across domains such as IT service delivery, business controls, internal audit, and organization [...]
We introduce #ScrumImpulz 2018 speaker: Timofey Yevgrashyn, Agility as the way to survive – not just another fundamental study.
An experienced Agile thinker with project management, consulting, coaching and training expertise. His personal experience in IT industry is since 1997, from which more than 12 years he had been managing effective software teams with Agile methods. Over the decade, he is sharing the knowledge and experience as a [...]
We introduce #ScrumImpulz 2018 speaker: Antonin Moravec, COO Kentico, Agile transformation – from developers to CEO
https://www.scrumimpulz.sk Tonda is a creative person who is happy when facing new challenges. Having worked in various roles, he has always been guided by the same question: “How can we make things better?” He is eager to help others to find a solution for tough problems or answer tricky [...]
We introduce #ScrumImpulz 2018 speaker: Fernando Colleone, Distributed teams and Agile – does it work?
https://www.scrumimpulz.sk Fernando helps globally distributed teams to become more Agile and deliver value to customers. Senior Project Manager with 13+ years of experience working with Information Technology and Services. Proven demonstration of client relationship building as well as leading global teams from all around the world. He is a [...]
We introduce ScrumImpulz 2018 speaker: Dany „Danko“ Kovatch about the right Agile culture!
The first Certified Scrum Trainer in Israel. Well recognized international speaker with unique ways of presenting. 5 years of service in the Israeli army in a special elite program. Served as VP of R&D in several companies. Danko is best known for his great enthusiasm for Scrum. ABOUT THE [...]
Bugs, incidents, problems, and service requests in Agile
It happened once again. 2nd level support teams (outside of scrum/agile) raised new incidents towards the scrum teams (3rd level support). How to prioritize work between business requirements and non-business requirements where the Product Owner is focused primarily on [...]
ScrumDesk now on ProductHunt
We've just added ScrumDesk on ProductHunt! ScrumDesk has supported more than 40 000 teams since 2007. This together with agile coaching helps us understand what is really important for an agile mindset. A lot of [...]
Frequently Asked: Story points in team of experts
Should you use story points for a team of developers developing multiple systems? The situation This question was asked by scrum masters who's teams are not ideal agile teams as the company introduces agile in multiple steps. Their team [...]
How To: An Online Backlog Refinement
Online meetings are the new reality of our everyday lives. Most of us have already been to an online meeting with a difficult agenda or maybe you’re just planning one. But achieving demanding goals in the online world is [...]
Don’t give KO to your OKR: 25 don‘ts and 5 do’s
Review your OKR Company Objectives and key results (OKR) impact more people than just the development teams, they affect everyone working in or with the company. In theory, coming up with good OKR might seem easy enough, but when [...]
ScrumDesk 8.44: Microsoft Teams notifications + Custom fields types
Microsoft Teams notifications Is your Agile team distributed? Does your company use Microsoft Teams as collaboration tool? Stay informed on project changes in your agile team even without ScrumDesk. Integrate ScrumDesk with MS Teams application via incoming webhook [...]
ScrumImpulz conference on Agile practices on May 27th in Slovakia – CANCELED
UPDATE: We are very sorry to inform you that due to safety concerns regarding the spread of coronavirus we decided to cancel the #ScrumImpulz 2020. For more information please visit the ScrumImpulz Conference pages. We thank you for [...]
ScrumDesk 8.44: Track Objectives and Key Results Progress
Objectives & Key Results Overview - track OKR interactively An understanding of the current status and progress of objectives and key results is quite tricky. Especially if you have multiple Objectives and Key Results. With the new Objectives [...]
Scaled Agility Meetup #2, Košice, 12.3.2020
Eben van Ellewee The Challenges of the Product Owner in a Corporate world To be the product owner in the corporate world is challenging. Huge pressure from your stakeholders, you are far from your end user, there [...]
Every product needs an elevator statement
Previously, we’ve shown you how to write a great elevator statement and some real-life examples. In this post, we’ll show you why you should start writing an elevator statement right now and how it can help you not just [...]
Elevator statement: Real-life examples and similar tools
We focused the second part of our elevator statement series on working with real-life examples and showing you similar tools. Learn how to improve an elevator statement by using our tips and asking the questions we discussed in the [...]
How to write a great elevator statement
What value your product brings? Can you explain in 30 seconds? You want to build a meaningful product that brings value to customers. But how can you do your best to stay on the right track? To focus on [...]
The History of Scrum: How, when and why
Understand the reasons, not just the process. Scrum's been around for over two decades and is helping many people successfully develop new products faster and more efficiently. This framework was officially first introduced to the public in 1995 by [...]
How to split user stories? Part 3: By business rules variation
How to split user stories properly? In previous articles you could read more on the split by workflow steps and by operations. This article brings examples on the user stories splitting by business rules variation. Business rules [...]
Became a great Scrum Master
Agile and Scrum have become widely used in IT and even though the advantages of this framework are numerous, some people don’t like it. A lot of them had their own experience with Scrum, particularly with bad Scrum. Attending [...]