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 world of Agile, and changes in technologies in the last [...]
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 Product Backlog Visual Markers What is the biggest advantage of [...]
ScrumDesk 5.7.31: Parking Lot Report. Release Planning
Parking Lot As a product owner, you often need to have an overview what is happening to your backlog. Parking lot (suggested by Mike Cohn) provides a very useful overview. The version 5.7.31 brings additional filters based on releases and sprints. Release overview in Parking Lot: Sprint overview in Parking [...]
ScrumDesk 5.7.30: Swimlanes, Story Details
Today's release contains more than 20 improvements we focused on. The main goal was to improve the editing of stories, planning, and provide better visibility of your Kanban boards. Swimlanes in Kanban board Swimlanes in Kanban board brings visibility in complex backlogs. Button displays menu from which users can choose [...]
ScrumDesk for Windows 5.6.25: Custom Fields Export & Import
Custom fields export and import have been added to the latest version of the ScrumDesk for Windows. This is helpful in case the Product Owner needs further analyze the product backlog. Custom fields are used to evidence the company's specialties as budgeting, software components, systems or dependencies on other [...]
ScrumDesk for Windows (retired) 5.6.21: Changes Synchronisation
Few customers running the ScrumDesk repositories on servers at different timezone reported problems while editing stories or tasks in ScrumDesk for Windows. The values were not saved and previous values were loaded from the repository. This behavior is fixed now thanks to the collaboration with Andrea, Shane, and Satiapriya. [...]
ScrumDesk 5.6: DropBox integration + WIP limits
Dropbox integration The latest version 5.6.20.101 brings the possibility to link files stored in the Dropbox cloud service. ScrumDesk uses the Dropbox application model which means that only files stored in Dropbox in Apps/ScrumDesk folder are. The files might be linked to projects, releases, sprints, stories, and tasks as [...]
How to link files from Dropbox to ScrumDesk
The latest version brings the possibility to link files stored in Dropbox cloud service. ScrumDesk uses Dropbox application model which means that only files stored in Dropbox in Apps/ScrumDesk folder are available. The files might be linked to project, releases, sprints, stories, and tasks as well. How to link a [...]
ScrumDesk 5.5.14.99: BurnDown Charts, Synchronization improvements
This version fixes v.5.5 published the last week: Burn-down charts were not displayed correctly in some cases (i.e. sprint backlog contains stories with a long history). Fixes of the synchronization in five different cases (the first update in a day, update of a story in case tasks are changed, [...]
ScrumDesk 5.5: Custom Fields
Notice This version requires an update of repositories. You will need SQL Server administrator account to finish upgrade. Custom fields In this version users have possibility to: keep custom data in custom story fields, fields are displayed in stories grid in the Backlog and in Sprint views, fields can [...]
ScrumDesk for Windows 5.4.13: Task Changes Synchronization
We published new ScrumDesk update that brings: Improved synchronization of story tasks [Fix] Cards are not displayed for newly created tasks [Fix] Negative values in burn down charts
ScrumDesk 5.4.12: Improved Background Synchronization
Thanks to all our customers who sent us very positive feedback on the last version supporting simultaneous editing of tasks. And thanks to customers who informed us about issues we did not identify. In the newest version 5.4.12, we continuously focused on improvements of background synchronization. Sync interval shortened [...]
ScrumDesk 5.4.11: Simultaneous editing
We have something cool today. Something unique. An Instant Board By this version, you have an instant & continuously updated task board allowing everybody to have the current backlog on a desk. Simply to say it means simultaneous editing of stories. Edit title or description. Estimate story. Move a [...]
ScrumDesk 5.3.11: Sprint Capacity Planner
New features Autorefresh of reports For all teams using LCD to display ScrumDesk reports we implemented refresh of reports every 5 minutes. It can be turned on or off on Reports page in the upper top corner. Capacity Planner Scrum teams often calculate capacity of the team by using [...]
ScrumDesk for Windows: All Features List
Ceremonies Project definition Product Planning Releases planning Sprints planning Parallel development of releases in one sprint Sprint execution Retrospective Estimation by Team Planning Poker® scale User Story Simultaneous editing Electronic Id Status Predefined + customizable workflow To do, Checked out, Solved, Completed Other details Title, Description, Acceptance criteria Planning [...]
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 [...]
Workshop Scrum in real life in Bratislava, Slovakia
Do you want to produce more quickly with better quality than your competitors? Do frequent changes make your life complicated? Scrum, an agile project management framework, changes the way how to develop and deliver products. It has a strong accent to adaptability towards requirement changes, shortening the development cycle, [...]
Set the stage in a retrospective
An agile retrospective is one of the most important ceremony in Scrum. There are lot of ways how to do it. We would like to provide to ScrumMasters and teams an overview how to do retrospective. And we are starting with Agile Retrospective: Set stage [...]
Serious Play – accelerate your Agile transformation
Couple of weeks ago we were asked by organizers of Agile Meetups at Budapest to provide Agile Games talk. It was great opportunity to bring not just a presentation, but to really show how and why agile is good way of work. Agile transition is very often the current case [...]
Prepare Definition of Done together
As you are aware, Scrum is based on values very nice summarized by Mike Vizdos's o this cartoon. All of them, however, requires to define working agreement supporting creation of these values. An adaptation is in Scrum done at different levels, mostly through collaboration. Teams have to have common [...]
Product owner briefly
Product owner is a key role in Scrum framework. Companies used to start with intorudction of agile in development team, but the biggest mistake is missing preparation of Product owners before scrum/agile adaptation. Following slides pprovides fundamental information about Scrum and agile to Product owner role. Product Owner Briefly [...]
Kano Model helps Product Backlog Prioritization
Product management is about searching for the most important requirement that needs to be delivered as the next. There are different prioritization practices. One such dimension that product owner should be aware of is expected customer satisfaction. Satisfaction with developed feature or story. Mr. Noriaki Kano developed Kano model as valuable technique helping [...]
Agile prioritization. What to build the first?
Product owner is often confronted with a large backlog. This post continues to explain how to consider priority of stories. See principles in previous post. Measuring risk and positive value allows to calculate the order in which stories should be developed. Very nice and simple visualization can be Risk vs. [...]
Business Value is not enough for Product Backlog Prioritization
Agile coaches teach teams to develop a business value that is delivered at the end of the sprint. But should be a value an indicator of the priority? Yes, but not the only one. There are many other attributes we often forget to consider. We suggest applying a different approach. [...]
Scrum training
Are you looking for some ideas what Scrum is about? Check our training lesson we provided for more than 1.000 people in different IT companies of multiple business areas as telco, insurance, financial, startups, ISV, project, and product houses. Our training is about real-life experience, not just a presentation. [...]
Scrum Checklist
Scrum is a lightweight process framework. As it is just a framework, you can find the same implementation in the world rarely. Even at the company level scrum implementation will be different project by project. To validate our coaching effort we use Scrum Checklist (originally written by Henrik Kniberg). [...]
Real life episode: Speed Boat game helps improve
Successful companies are looking for the ways how to improve processes all the time. Sources of improvement, in companies driven by traditional management, are mostly selected people from senior management and/or process engineers. The problem is, as we in agile community see, that source of improvements are not the people [...]
Real life episode: Product review
Sprint review (or demo, demonstration) is fundamental Scrum ceremony providing a visibility of results to a product owner, stakeholders or anyone invited. For an agile team, a review is a key event as commitment they agreed on must be demonstrated as a real functionality. We spent a couple of few days on-site [...]
ScrumDesk supports TEDx Bratislava
We are very proud to support TEDxBratislava conference. May 29th, 2010, Heineken Tower Stage, Bratislava, Slovakia. Let us use words of organizers about it: Riveting speakers, perceptive audience, diversity of topics, lively discussions among the participants – this is what you can experience at TEDxBratislava. If your mind is wide [...]
ScrumDesk supports OpenAgile Romania
We would like to invite you to learn more about agile during the Open Agile Romania conference that will happen in Bucharest at Hotel Golden Tulip Times. Conference is organized by Maria Diaconu and Alexandru Bolboaca. You can meet a lot of important speakers (Rachel Davies, David Hussman, Robin Dymon, Janet [...]
How to do Agile Estimation by Mike Cohn
How to do Agile estimation with story points? Agile estimation is based on simple principles: apply relative comparison as people are better in relative estimation not absolute, compare items with estimation references included in the estimation catalogue, use a simple scale based on the modified Fibonacci scale numbers of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We introduce ScrumImpulz 2018 speaker: Jan Majoros, eduScrum, the very real alternative for education process
Experienced Agile practitioner and active member of the Agile community. Jan has a long and successful career in management positions in corporates including Siemens. The enthusiastic person who uses Scrum for developing unique products, which helps to save peoples [...]
ScrumImpulz 2018: Martin Strigač, CEO Sygic, „Pracovať Agilne s rozumom“
Martin začal svoju púť v IT svete v Žiline ešte na škole, a neskôr, počas svojej kariéry, pracoval na rôznych pozíciách. Keď sa ako vedúci softvérových tímov a neskôr ako riaditeľ divízie dostal k Agile, produkt vyvíjaný pre zdravotné [...]
ScrumImpulz 2018. Agile in Slovakia in the next decade
Ten years seem like a lot of time but despite that, a lot of people claim that Agile practices are still very young. In 2008 we began to apply then-unknown Agile, and back then we had completely different concepts compared to today. [...]
The journey of one Scrum Master
About the life of the agile team, relations, Scrumastership, responsibilities, and some good practices. “KEEP CALM SCRUM MASTER IS HERE" When I started in one of the company’s development teams, I had no experience with Scrumastership. The team was [...]