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About Dusan Kocurek

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

Agile Consultancy Services for Slovakia and Czechia

Spoločnosť ScrumDesk ponúka konzultačné služby počas posledných troch rokov. Naša viditeľnosť na Slovensku a v Českej Republike nebola výrazná, keďže sme sa viac zameriavali na spoločnosti sídliace v  zahraničí. Tento rok je našim cieľom výraznejšie pomáhať spoločnostiam, ktoré vytvárajú hodnoty v strednej a východnej Európe a predovšetkým v Slovenskej a Českej republike.  Krajiny, v [...]

February 29th, 2012|Categories: All|

ScrumDesk for Windows 5.2.8

This new version brings two important features: support of Windows Azure cloud data storage project-level impediments and auto-upload of changed attachments We continue to add additional rules into the integrated coach module you found usable to identify gaps in your agility. We also have started a collaboration with agile coaches to bring more knowledge [...]

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 or defect fixes. In our [...]

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 owners Purpose The purpose of [...]

February 12th, 2012|Categories: All, Events|Tags: , |

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 is focused on distributed and [...]

February 11th, 2012|Categories: All, Events|Tags: , , |

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 ceremonies with a focus on [...]

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

December 12th, 2011|Categories: Agile Knowledge Hub, All|Tags: |

ScrumDesk: Integrated Agile Coach, an instant Agile Assessment

Coaching of teams has been always a great source of ideas for us. Many features in ScrumDesk have been implemented because of daily touch with real-life teams. You can benefit from that value built-in into our solutions what differentiate us from other project management tools. In coaching sessions, we observed typical patterns that appear [...]

ScrumDesk 5.2.3: Agile Analytics, Agile Coach module

Database is not necessary to update, only client application needs to be installed. New features Agile coach WebAPI accessible in Repository dialog Fixes Status of  a sprint indicated in Planning sprint list by color Double-click on release attachment in Search results do not open release detail window Double-click on sprint attachment in Search results [...]

We support Heart of Borneo

ScrumDesk company is proud to support the non-profit organization  Heart of Borneo. The Heart of Borneo Rainforest is one of the most important and least studied ecosystems on earth, but it's disappearing at an alarming rate. Organization Heart of Borneo works to protect this rainforest from further destruction for the benefit of its inhabitants [...]

November 18th, 2011|Categories: All, ScrumDesk Web Edition|

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, you have to know the „size“ [...]

November 16th, 2011|Categories: Agile Knowledge Hub, All|Tags: , |

ScrumDesk for Windows: The Change log

Stay updated with the latest development progress nearly every week. This Preview edition is published to get your feedback earlier so we can improve the implementation of your requests before an official release. Installation is available here. Change log: January 9, 5.2.6.73 New features Rule: Impediments are not solved Coach - filter issues by [...]

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 be applied to smaller companies [...]

November 13th, 2011|Categories: All, Events|Tags: , |

Partnership program

ScrumDesk company is looking for partners interested in collaboration in following areas: Consulting partners for trainers, coaches or mentors experienced in Agile, Scrum, XP or Kanban willing to share knowledge through Agile Knowledge Hub sponsored by ScrumDesk company and theirs partners. Business partners for resellers or anyone able to sell licenses and gain share [...]

November 13th, 2011|Categories: All, ScrumDesk Web Edition|

ScrumDesk v.5.2: Filters, History, Emails

In newly released ScrumDesk we focused mostly on requirements of our users we gather in more than half a year. How to upgrade current installation Upgrade your database using the latest ScrumDesk Database Manager (for SQL Server 2008) Desktop client must be uninstalled first from Windows Control Panel/Add Remove applications Install desktop client application that is available [...]

ScrumDesk for Windows: API Attachments Limits

REST API is in Microsoft Information Server configured by default to transfer binary data of maximum size of 65KB. The size is configurable by parameter maxReceivedMessageSize in web.config file located in API directory. <standardEndpoints> <!--Defines a standard endpoint with a fixed <webHttpBinding> binding that automatically adds the <webHttp> behavior. Use this endpoint when writing a [...]

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 a possibility to see, hear, [...]

September 30th, 2011|Categories: All, Events|Tags: , , |

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 people asking questions related to [...]

September 25th, 2011|Categories: Agile Knowledge Hub, All|Tags: |

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, Marian and Dominik By coincidence, [...]

September 13th, 2011|Categories: All, Events|Tags: |

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, and meet wonderful people. See [...]

September 4th, 2011|Categories: All, Events|Tags: |