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, request and kudos you sent [...]
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 and status Stories are typically [...]
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 can see customer's stories. Product owners [...]
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, colored, so teams can categorize [...]
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 something in common. Such a [...]
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 A new project is in [...]
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 beta). Send invitations Once you [...]
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 of multiple releases and sprints, [...]
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 to find your new job you will love to go faster. Together with Zuzana Sochova, a [...]
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. Do you have any problem [...]
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.
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 six years, it was much [...]
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 Agile? Based on feedback gathered [...]
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 but only trough real experience can you gain the deeper insight into the nature of [...]
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
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 success of agile methods, what to do towards the change of organizational culture and to [...]
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 the stand-up held? What time does the stand-up start? What is the duration of the [...]
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 that has taken place without any changes in a team room is the common mistake [...]
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. During our coaching, many people argue it is waste of time. Why is it so? [...]
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
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 is about principles, not technologies. It comes from industry and it has been adopted to [...]
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 cover your role in creating a successful product using Scrum. The Product Owner creates the [...]
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 Lot: Stories Overview Do you [...]
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 based on what story attributes [...]
Bratislava, Slovakia 13 May 2013 (till 14 May 2013) Join our highly-interactive two-day class from the Agile Eastern Europe leader - Alexey Krivitsky. Alexey has been mastering Scrum since 2004 as a ScrumMaster, an Agile Coach, and a Certified Scrum Trainer. Now he is a managing partner of SCRUMguides and Agile Eastern Europe Conference. Get ready for serious [...]
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 organization units. Changes: [New] Custom [...]
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.
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 well. For more information read [...]
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 file from Dropbox Click drop [...]
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, etc.). Minor visual improvements of [...]
