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About Dusan Kocurek

ScrumDesk product manager. Passionist agilist, coach I like to help organizations to transform into an Agile environment.

ScrumDesk Windows 3.6.2: Planning Poker

Planning Poker ® Planning Poker ® window provides access to all unplanned stories with support for: move around the backlog stories that are not started yet timer for poker round Fibonacci numbers + customer effort value view on smaller, equal, and bigger stories Planning Poker ® can be used during the estimation meeting. Team members select the [...]

ScrumDesk Windows 3.6: Product Backlog in Treemap

Release date: August 19, 2008 Version 3.6 is a major upgrade. This version makes version 3.5 changes available to the public +  new features listed below. We focused on a better visualization and features requested by our customers. If you are using a local database installation, then a database upgrade is required. Only database [...]

ScrumDesk Windows 3.5: Microsoft TFS Synchronization + Excel

Version 3.5 is a major upgrade. The most important reason for this build is support for ScrumDesk Synchronization Hub. If you use a local database installation, then database upgrade is required. Ask us for updated ScrumDesk Database installation tool, please.Synchronization and tools integrationScrumDesk supports synchronization with 3rd party tools (such as Microsoft Team Foundation Server). [...]

ScrumDesk for Windows 3.1: Team Capacities Leveling

Infrastructure upgrade The main reason for a new version is an infrastructure upgrade. We moved licensing server to a new provider with higher capacity. Unfortunately,  this change requires an update for all ScrumDesk demo or local installations. Users are not required to update the locally installed database. User assignment In previous versions, a task [...]

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 open, enquiring and looking for [...]

September 29th, 2010|Categories: Events|

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 Gregory, Michel Goldenberg) and interesting [...]

September 29th, 2010|Categories: Events|

The Spanish Society of Rheumatology (SER)

The Spanish Society of Rheumatology (SER) is a scientific association aiming to promote the study of rheumatic diseases, musculoskeletal system and connective tissue diseases, dealing with problems related to the medical specialty always focused on the benefit of rheumatic patients. Currently, the SER represents about 1,500 professionals in Spain. SER develops works, studies and [...]

ScrumDesk is used by Advanced Electronics Company

We are proud to announce a new reference for our tool: Advanced Electronics Company. AEC is leader in high technology engineering and manufacturing in Saudi Arabia Kingdom. AEC is involved in a number of significant national defense, telecommunication, Civil & Industrial projects and providing its products and service to leading international companies. Advanced Electronics [...]

ScrumDesk for Windows(retired): Step 1 – Create a new project

ScrumDesk for Windows(retired): Step 1 - Create a new project This articles series is an example of how to start using SCRUM in your projects with help provided by ScrumDesk. Our example project will be an RSS Reader, an application that will provide easy access to RSS articles provided by many websites. And we [...]

ScrumDesk for Windows (retired): Team Management

ScrumDesk for Windows (retired): Step 2 - Define a team Who Product Owner Work that needs to be done can be easily distributed in more development teams. ScrumDesk connects teams in one virtually connected social community. This community is notified by the ScrumDesk notification system about any change. Teams can be distributed over the [...]

Step 3: Define user story templates

In Step 3 we will define story templates according to company process requirements. If your process is not requiring precisely defined steps, go directly to Step 4. Who Scrum Master Story Templates Are story templates required? No. But they are great when you have defined the required development process steps. This is the typical [...]

ScrumDesk for Windows (retired): Step 4 – Planning Releases in Agile Project

In this step, the Product Owner and development team will try to plan project releases. Who Product Owner Scrum Master Planning in SCRUM SCRUM is based on development in timeboxes called Sprint. Sprint is the time needed to complete selected stories (features, bugs, requirements, tasks,...). The length of the sprint is typically 30 days, [...]

Step 5: Plan sprints

In this step product owner and development team will try to plan project sprints. Who Product Owner Scrum Master Planning in SCRUM In Step 4 Planning product releases we defined sprint as time box for developers to complete selected stories. Product Development Product Backlog Release A Release B Sprint 1 Sprint 2 Sprint 3 ScrumDesk: Planning [...]

Step 6: Backlog Stories

In this step product owner and development team are going to plan project sprints. Who Product Owner Creating stories The target for this step is to create backlog stories. Product Development Product Backlog Stories in scrum are mainly created by the product owners. As a first step let's log in as product owners. The product [...]

Step 7: Planning Poker®

In this step development team is going to estimate stories. Who Scrum Master Developers Planning Poker® Our backlog contains all known stories which has to be developed for product. Team sits down together around the table and they starts to discuss size of each story. Product Development Product Backlog Every developer will get cards [...]

ScrumDesk for Windows (retired): Step 8 – Sprint planning meeting

In this step product, owner and development team will plan sprint. Who Product Owner Scrum Master Developers Visitors Sprint planning meeting Development team meats with the product owner on sprint planning meetings. The product owner shows the team his plan for the first sprint. Product owners chose stories by top importance (priority). Planning View [...]

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 which are known as the [...]

September 23rd, 2010|Categories: Agile Knowledge Hub, All|Tags: , |