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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 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: |

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 on September 7-9 in Berlin. [...]

August 17th, 2011|Categories: All, Events|Tags: |

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 long time!Meet great speakers who would [...]

August 16th, 2011|Categories: All, Events|Tags: |

ScrumDesk discount for startups

We would like to announce we decided to support startup companies. Requirements We will appreciate your reference that will helps us to keep our solutions updated constantly. We offer All our solutions (ScrumDesk desktop application, iPhone/iPad client, Subversion, BitBucket, FlowDock, Yammer and other 3rd party integration, Microsoft TFS synchronization) All features without data limits [...]

July 28th, 2011|Categories: All, ScrumDesk Web Edition|

Using Yammer?

An email integration (to be available in the next version) allows all customers using Yammer (free private social network for companies) to share changes through it. All it is necessary is to put an email address into CC field of email configuration: post to network networkname@yammer.com post to group      +networkname@yammer.com post to [...]

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 Gantt chart way of relations [...]

ScrumDesk and FlowDock integration

Do you like to use  FlowDock, the platform that turns the conversation into knowledge, as your notification platform? We, at ScrumDesk, like an idea to have a conversation of an agile team to be stored in one place. There are a lot of benefits, especially for distributed teams. For a long time, we planned [...]

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 training speed-ups engineering practices of [...]

July 10th, 2011|Categories: All, Events|Tags: , |

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 and customers. Responsible for: product [...]

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 the implementation progress of the [...]

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 A couple of months ago [...]

June 15th, 2011|Categories: All, Events|Tags: |

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 agile coach can explain principles [...]

ScrumDesk iOS preview

Let us share the work we are proud of. We decided to move scrum project information from your desk to your hand.  Thanks to the latest ScrumDesk API we are finishing our ScrumDesk iPhone/iPad client these days. Read-only edition will be available for free so you can check a status of the project on a train while traveling [...]

User Story Index Card

Story card Story concept has been adopted since Extreme Programming defined principle of 3C (Cards, Conversation, and Confirmation). Scrum has incorporated the concept of the story written on the card. The card is easy to manipulate and provides the only necessary level of information. The card displays three views – Detail displays basic information, [...]

ScrumDesk for Windows: Customization

Scrum is a framework typically adopted by every company.  ScrumDesk allows customizing it according to needs. Customization Release types allows defining how important is the release and where will be deployed Release statuses. Companies track the status of the releases, therefore, they need to define statuses to be used. Story types. A story in [...]

Agile Project in ScrumDesk, Scrum Project Management Tool

All stories in ScrumDesk are stored in relation to a particular project. The project keeps not just stories, but team details, retrospective ideas, impediments, absences, and attachments. Project details are available by clicking on the Project menu item. The user can enter the project’s details and configure project variables, ScrumDesk options and integrate the [...]

Backlog Transparency with Taskboard and Treemap

Taskboard Taskboard displays sprint user stories and tasks as a kanban board. Kanban board is split into more swim lines according to the status. Colors of the swim lines are displayed based on the project settings (Project/Options). ScrumDesk task board allows changing the status of a task by drag and drop. Users can find useful [...]