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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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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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 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 [...]
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 [...]