ScrumDesk 3.4.2: Attachments plus #Slack integration
Backlog item attachments ScrumDesk now supports keeping documents, UX designs and other assets related to backlog item (aka user story) in Amazon S3 cloud integrated with ScrumDesk Files can be uploaded in the side view when you click on a card. The usage is similar to many other applications on [...]
ScrumDesk 3.4: Velocity Chart, Analytics, Comments, Emails
A message from you A few days ago we received on our support page the following message from Dave: Don't add anything!!! The problem with many versions of agile software is they pack them with so many tools that the core functionality gets muddled. ScrumDesk desktop is so beautifully uncluttered [...]
AGILE ToolboX, daily standup and Poker Planning cards
AGILE ToolboX is a set of simple tools that agile team can use to support agile planning, daily standups or retrospectives. Agile ToolboX runs in the web browser on any platform. Cards Different card sets for backlog grooming, planning, team estimation or retrospectives. AGILE ToolboX supports multiple scales to estimate business value, [...]
Scrum Project Management Tool with All Scrum Practices in One Package
Two days before Christmas we have published an update of ScrumDesk. We hope your teams will find it valuable once they will plan the first release of the year 2015. The Goal The main goal for release v.0.3 has been a supporter of all core Scrum practices used by agile teams. From the improvement of [...]
Restart an Iteration
ScrumDesk has been updated again. Thanks to all our customers who asked for new features we have implemented in this release. What we changed: [NEW] Release and Sprint can be restarted once it has been closed. [NEW] Password reset functionality in the login screen. [NEW] Password can [...]
ScrumDesk is updated
We are happy to announce an update of ScrumDesk which is available for more than two months now. For more than two months about 800 active companies and universities have been using this simple, web-based, solution to manage Scrum or Kanban projects. Also, we are very thankful for a lot of comments, [...]
Daily life with Kanban board
Daily life The Kanban board is a primarily visual tool for the self-organized team. Kanban board is split into multiple columns and rows (swimlanes). The main goal is to visualize work and its status. ScrumDesk board provides access to user stories and tasks selected for a particular sprint. Tasks [...]
Release planning with ScrumDesk
Planning in Agile Our aim is to create a tool very similar to the physical board on which team members are working with cards in different corners of the planning board. The board that can be split into more panes and swim lines representing either backlog, different releases or sprints. The board on which you [...]
Agile Product Backlog Management with ScrumDesk
An index card for user story Fundamental XP practice is to keep requirements written on an index card. The index card should be: small, therefore requirement has to be written clearly, movable, so the product backlog is visually clean, resizable, so the size of cards can help to organize backlog, [...]
Manage epics and themes with ScrumDesk
Epics and Themes Products are typically described by hundreds of requirements which are organized in the product backlog and represented by index cards. Large requirements, epics, cannot be completed in one sprint so they are broken into more user stories. Epics are then delivered in releases. But even small user stories from different epics can have [...]
ScrumDesk: Add new project
A lot of agile teams work for different clients. Projects are typically owned and managed by client and teams are contracted as developers who need an access to requirements and work tracking. ScrumDesk, therefore, supports a concept of projects listed by organizations for which you have been invited to work. Project details [...]
ScrumDesk: Invite team members
In ScrumDesk you can track a work for one or more organizations. Organization account An organization account is created automatically based on information entered in Sign Up form. For this organization your user, the account will be assigned as an administrator which gives you privilege to manage user accounts plus other details (not available in [...]
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 Scrum practices focusing on: visual product backlog management, fast planning [...]
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 availability of a newer version upon ScrumDesk for Windows start. [...]
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.
Free webinar: Agile on their own for Russian speaking customers
We see a lot of people in Europe eager to know more about Agile. We see people who would like to know what does it mean to be agile, how to start with it and how to evolve into an agile company. ScrumDesk company actively supports agile transition in the [...]
Webinar Agile Estimation of requirements and objectives by Tim Yevgrashyn
The next part of Agile Knowledge Hub is presented by Tim Yevgrashyn, an agile coach who works for Ciklum company. This part is focused on the agile estimation of requirements, why to do it and how to do the estimation. We hope you will enjoy this webinar. [...]
Organize the Product Backlog. The Tree of Requirements
You know that probably. Requirements are coming, coming and coming. There is no time to stop and think about them. There is no time to organize them. There is no time to analyze your backlog so you know which requirements should be developed next. Even more, many customers ask you about new functionality [...]
Scrum Practice Day, Bratislava April 4th
Come to learn Scrum by practice. Let's develop a product using all Scrum ceremonies including Agile practices with help of experienced Agile coaches. Language: Slovak, English When: April 4, 2012, 9:00 AM Where: Bratislava For who Agile teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Leadership roles, Project management, Product management, Business [...]
Webinar: Agile Estimation of requirements in planning
Agile projects apply different estimation approaches compared to traditional project management. Even there is the discussion of estimation is necessary, agile teams are estimating requirements as clients often want to know effort. Timofey Yevgrashyn is an experienced Agile Coach, who supported the agile transition of many teams. Currently, he [...]
Free Scrum Guidelines
While being in agile transition, teams look for information on how to do agile correctly. Often the question sounds 'How to DO agile?' We prepared Scrum Guideline that we hope might be helpful to shorten your Agile transformation and stabilize the agile environment sooner. The paper describes all Scrum [...]
Scrum Resources
Do you need to learn more about Agile and Scrum fundamentals? We suggest starting with the following books. For beginners Slovak translation If you are agile already Presentations about Scrum
Agile helps Startups
This presentation has been presented during StartUp Camp in Kosice, east of Slovakia. View more presentations from ScrumDesk
Agile estimation explained: Story points vs. Hours
When defining a story, one can fill out an ‘effort’ and a ‘duration’. What is the difference between them? What is the story point? Let's start with the story point. Scrum is „a little bit“ different than other classic project management techniques. When you want to develop some feature, [...]
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe): Applying Lean-Agile to the Enterprise by Drew Jemilo
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a proven, publicly available framework for applying Lean-Agile practices to the enterprise. It will soon be available to the general public in a structured format on an interactive website. SAFe has been scaled to over 140 teams and 1,000 people, yet can still [...]
An evolution of software industry with Agile & Scrum
As part of our coaching activities we did presentation in Slovakia about agile as the next step in evolution of software industry.
Scrum Basics, Mike Vizdos, Sustainable Software Development, part I.
Michael Vizdos from Agile Renovation, explains Agile principles focusing on Scrum project management framework. Presented on 29. September 2011. Sustainable Software Development (Part I.) - Scrum Basics from ScrumDesk on Vimeo. Agile Knowledge Hub is supported by ScrumDesk company. With help of partners, coaches, speakers, and practitioners Agile Knowledge Hub provides [...]
ScrumDesk Basics Webinars
We would like to announce a new regular ScrumDesk Basics webinar in which you will learn how to start with ScrumDesk quickly. Webinar will covers management of scrum project and teams using ScrumDesk. You will learn how to plan releases and sprints, how ScrumDesk is helpfull in sprint execution [...]
Agile Knowledge Hub
After four years of scrum project management solutions development, working in an agile environment, and coaching agile in organizations, we would like to announce our new approach to help our community to learn more about Agile. Doing support of our solutions we have heard a lot of questions. Despite [...]
A story of Agile Lean Europe #Retroflection T-shirts
As soon as we heard about the Agile Lean Europe un-conference, we immediately decided to provide some support to organizers and participants. Options were opened after the first discussion with Olaf Lewitz. Who is behind the idea? We were lucky to get following people on board. Yves, Dusan, Olaf, [...]
Agile Prague and our special offer
The Central Europe region doesn't provide a lot of chances to visit conferences focusing on agile. But September 2011 is different. Finally. Zuzana Sochova and her team have prepared an Agile Prague conference that will provide more light to agile. Spend 2 days in beautiful Prague, share your experience, [...]
ALE 2011 conference: 50 Euro discount for ScrumDesk users
Let us spread information about the possibility we are able to offer to users of ScrumDesk regardless if you use free or charged licenses. ScrumDesk as the sponsor would like to offer a discount of 50€ to ScrumDesk registered users attending Agile Lean Europe unconference that will be held [...]
Agile adaption gaps identification
Doing agile are many obstacles identified. It is not easy to check what does well implemented agile means. A scale of changes that agile transition has brought is often big and related to more areas - to product, project, leadership, team, tools, development practices and organization as well. The [...]
Where you should be beginning September? We suggest Agile Lean Europe Berlin!
We know the best place where to spend a few days beginning of September.On September 7th - 9th you have to be in Berlin!If you love Agile. If you like to learn about Agile. If you like to share knowledge and experience across Europe!Because you will remember Agile Lean Europe Unconference for a quite [...]
User Stories Relations and Dependencies
The customer asked us an interesting question regarding the relations of stories in ScrumDesk. What ScrumDesk supports now is simple relations tracking solution, the possibility to track, see and print out it in documents. For the first look, some basic functionality in ScrumDesk is missing. The functionality similar to [...]
Discounted Certified Scrum Developer Training for ScrumDesk users
Are you interested in engineering practices that emphasis the speed and quality of your agile project? Agile Renovation, Scrum Alliance registered education provider, provides Certified Scrum Developer training in Budapest in September. Most of Scrum certification training are focused on Scrum practices forgetting little bit development perspective of agile transition. This [...]
Scrum Glossary: Scrum Roles
Pig & chicken Metaphor that helps to distinguish people actively involved in development of the product and people who should not interrupt the team in an iteration. Product Owner Father of the product. Responsible for product success. Provides a vision to the team. Communication channel between the team, stakeholders [...]
What does your BurnDown chart say?
ScrumDesk analyzes agile practices applied by teams and helps ScrumMasters to identify gaps quickly. These tips and findings of BurnDown charts are based on our 14+ years of agile coaching. Check additional metrics that ScrumDesk helps to track. Burn Down Chart is a primary scrum metric used to track [...]
Agile Lean Europe Unconference
ScrumDesk, Agile Retroflection channel, and ALE un-conference organizers would like to ask you to help us to choose 4 coaching questions for 100 T-shirts as a gift for active participants. Bring questions to your teams to improve them! Vote for questions Help us to make ALE un-conference more interesting [...]
Start Agile Transformation of your teams with The Drawing Game
The transition of teams to agile is always challenging. People have expectations, habits, and beliefs about Agile. We worked with teams they were saying We are agile already. Because we are time boxed. Well, yes, you are right. Partially. The agile means a much wider range of practices. An [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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) — [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]