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 [...]
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 [...]
As part of our coaching activities we did presentation in Slovakia about agile as the next step in evolution of software industry.
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, [...]
We would like to announce a new regular ScrumDesk Basics webinar in which you will learn how to start with ScrumDesk quickly. Webinar will covers management of scrum project and teams using ScrumDesk. You will learn how to plan releases and sprints, how ScrumDesk is helpfull in sprint execution and in retrospective. Basic reports [...]
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 [...]
ScrumDesk, Scrum project online management tool fundamental principles.
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 question asked by teams is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Are you always looking for estimation cards during your Scrum planning sessions? We are sure most of the team members have mobile phones even working agreement :). Now you have good reason to have them in the meeting - Free Planning Poker (TM) in your iPhone/iPod/iPad.
During the last few sprints, we worked on an edition of ScrumDesk for iOS. It is going to be available in Apple AppStore soon. What will it offer? access to projects access to product and sprint backlog See list of stories See details of a story Check tasks Recognize a status of stories and who is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
ScrumDesk tracks all changes done by any team member. These changes are sent as an online notification to all team members and, at the same time, they are available in Activities page. The page is history browser displaying who, when and what has changed. Changes are grouped by item’s id and date of the [...]
Team Manager It is suggested to have an agile team not bigger than 7-9 people. In the case of the big project, this leads to having more teams that need to be synchronized. ScrumDesk keep teams hierarchically organized in Team Manager page. In this page Scrum Master can: manage teams add/remove team members from [...]
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 [...]
