ScrumDesk provides more way of backlog visibility. A board is probably most used, but in case of large backlogs users are losing orientation in it. For better orientation ScrumDesk provides additional views. Board view Board simulates a wall board. It displays stories as cards and allows manipulate with them. The size of the board [...]
ScrumDesk Windows user interface simulates the simplicity of wall board with a possibility to display the backlog in different styles, therefore, allows to better manage the product backlog. The user interface displays more views in separated tabs. This way can user works with more backlogs at the same time. The top row displays menu, [...]
Repository/Database installation As a first step ScrumDesk administrator must install the database (On-Site edition) or register to receive credentials to the hosted database (On-Demand Edition). To read how to install a database read the Administrator manual. Connect to a repository Projects are stored in repositories/databases installed in the previous step. As there can be [...]
Getting StartedInstallationScrumDesk is available in the following editions:On-Demand Edition that supports hosting the project database on ScrumDesk servers. In this case, only the installation of the ScrumDesk client application is necessary. Users are informed via emails about credentials to log in to hosted database.On-Site Edition provides a possibility to install the database in the company [...]
Scrum as project management is using the concept of index cards introduced in Extreme Programming (XP). Cards are supposed to establish conversation and clarification of requirements. The card in ScrumDesk displays more details than paper index card while still provides visibility. ScrumDesk index card's advantages compared to other project management tools: resizable many colors [...]
In agile team a visibility is a key. Once the team is distributed, it is hard to keep a possibility to register when a team member moved the card on the task board. To have the visibility even the team is distributed, ScrumDesk notifies all team members about the project changes via emails or [...]
API you asked for! We are proud to announce av the availability of API. ScrumDesk API provides a possibility to connect to project repositories via HTTP from 3rd party applications. Benefits high reliability, no problems with firewalls any client, operating system, technology, or programming language REST interface, get data easy drill-through, filter, and sort by the [...]
Import stories from CSV ScrumDesk v5 supports import of stories into project backlog from text files with the following format: Subject Description Importance Value Effort Risk Duration Spent Remaining Theme Comment line must starts with # character. The values must be separated with character The import can be started [...]
Update January 2017: ScrumDesk Windows is not supported anymore! TFS 2010 is a big improvement compared to TFS 2008. Moreover, Microsoft company decided to support agile/scrum project management as well via the Microsoft Visual Scrum process template. Even this, our customers are asking for possibilities to connect to TFS and add ScrumDesk as part [...]
Introduction ScrumDesk supports the synchronization of artifacts with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 via ScrumDesk Synchronization Hub. ScrumDesk Synchronization Hub is the package of a core application called Hub and connects to 3rd party systems. The synchronization (integration) provides a possibility to have instant access to your stories, tasks, and retrospective ideas directly in [...]
Do you want to produce more quickly with better quality than your competitors? Do frequent changes make your life complicated? Scrum, an agile project management framework, changes the way how to develop and deliver products. It has a strong accent to adaptability towards requirement changes, shortening the development cycle, teamwork, and quality. Workshop Scrum [...]
An agile retrospective is one of the most important ceremony in Scrum. There are lot of ways how to do it. We would like to provide to ScrumMasters and teams an overview how to do retrospective. And we are starting with Agile Retrospective: Set stage
"As customer or stakeholder I do not want to wait two weeks to recognize the status of my project" Get customer on project board as chicken for free now! We, at ScrumDesk company, decided to provide free read-only licenses for your stakeholders or customers that needto have an access to your project stories, boards and [...]
ScrumDesk In this release our team focused on improvements for administrators and user experience. Database Manager for SQL 2008 for SQL 2005 Administration Auto-assign of user license Licenses were necessary to assign separately from user accounts. In the new version, licenses are automatically assigned to newly created accounts. Administrators are still able to assign [...]
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Couple of weeks ago we were asked by organizers of Agile Meetups at Budapest to provide Agile Games talk. It was great opportunity to bring not just a presentation, but to really show how and why agile is good way of work. Agile transition is very often the current case in companies. Companies look for [...]
As you are aware, Scrum is based on values very nice summarized by Mike Vizdos's o this cartoon. All of them, however, requires to define working agreement supporting creation of these values. An adaptation is in Scrum done at different levels, mostly through collaboration. Teams have to have common understanding, common vocabulary. We use [...]
Product owner is a key role in Scrum framework. Companies used to start with intorudction of agile in development team, but the biggest mistake is missing preparation of Product owners before scrum/agile adaptation. Following slides pprovides fundamental information about Scrum and agile to Product owner role. Product Owner Briefly View more presentations from Dusan [...]
Reaching a wider community is for us absolutely welcome not just because of numbers (either count or price). For us, the value is a knowledge of how scrum adaptation is done. It is very interesting to see how such a simple project management framework is adapted in so many ways. ScrumDesk development began as [...]
We would like to announce availability of Subversion synchronization hook. The hook synchronizes comments entered while committing changes into Subversion into ScrumDesk story comment. Read more and download the hook from the page Installation Guide.
Product management is about searching for the most important requirement that needs to be delivered as the next. There are different prioritization practices. One such dimension that product owner should be aware of is expected customer satisfaction. Satisfaction with developed feature or story. Mr. Noriaki Kano developed Kano model as valuable technique helping to recognize that. Applying this [...]
Product owner is often confronted with a large backlog. This post continues to explain how to consider priority of stories. See principles in previous post. Measuring risk and positive value allows to calculate the order in which stories should be developed. Very nice and simple visualization can be Risk vs. Value chart. Chart is split [...]
Agile coaches teach teams to develop a business value that is delivered at the end of the sprint. But should be a value an indicator of the priority? Yes, but not the only one. There are many other attributes we often forget to consider. We suggest applying a different approach. We would like to have [...]
Are you looking for some ideas what Scrum is about? Check our training lesson we provided for more than 1.000 people in different IT companies of multiple business areas as telco, insurance, financial, startups, ISV, project, and product houses. Our training is about real-life experience, not just a presentation. [...]
ScrumDesk Windows v.5.0.2.34 changes ScrumDesk update v.5.2.0.34 contains the following important fixes: [*] [Task board] Additional fixes of tasks duplication in task board [*] [Task board] Sort by Id [+] [Administration] administrator is asked to enter company license key after login if there is no key entered [+] Yesterday's changes displayed in summary window upon start [...]
ScrumDesk update v.5.0.2.33 contains the following important fixes: [*] Tasks were duplicated once created [+] [Card] Simplified name of new task according number of tasks, not id We would like to thank Ted & Jan for reporting.
ScrumDesk update v.5.0.2 contains following improvements: [*] [Dashboard] Product Owner can change status of the task in Dashboard [+] [Dashboard] Possibility to change from state Done to Solved [+] [Dashboard] Information displayed if change of task status is not possible [*] [Dashboard] Adding/Deleting new subtask doesn't change the number displayed in story legend [*] [Dashboard] Saved resources improve slightly performance with a big number of stories [*] [Dashboard] Name of the story, priority and effort is possible to edit in small card in-line [*] [Absences] First item not saved if window is closed [*] [Planning] Fix of assigning stories into sprint [-] [Planning] Removed animation after refresh/update of list of stories [*] [Planning] Anyone can plan, not just ScrumMaster or Product Owner [*] [Planning] Buttons +/- are hidden for backlog, release and releases [*] [Planning] Detail of , and is not possible to display [*] [Planning] Name of the story, priority and effort [...]
After the project is created it should be configured. ScrumDesk allows ScrumMaster to assign a name to the Project page. Except that ScrumMaster can describe the project in the Description edit line to provide general information about the project to other people in a company. ScrumDesk provides a way to visually distinguish the project in [...]
Scrum is a lightweight process framework. As it is just a framework, you can find the same implementation in the world rarely. Even at the company level scrum implementation will be different project by project. To validate our coaching effort we use Scrum Checklist (originally written by Henrik Kniberg). Henrik's checklist is a paper-based [...]
Successful companies are looking for the ways how to improve processes all the time. Sources of improvement, in companies driven by traditional management, are mostly selected people from senior management and/or process engineers. The problem is, as we in agile community see, that source of improvements are not the people directly doing the job in [...]