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Meaningful Agile
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 on closed deals. Being business partner you can earn share every month! Technology partners [...]
ScrumDesk.5.2.0.45: Update of Tasks
We just published quick fix v.5.2.0.45. Some customers informed us that in certain cases tasks are not saved correctly while working in Taskboard (Kanban board). As this can be a serious problem we decided to publish the fix asap. This time you will be informed about the availability of update and ScrumDesk will be updated automatically. No database upgraded is necessary. We highly suggest to install it. [...]
ScrumDesk Windows: Database upgrade on Microsoft SQL Server R2
An upgrade of database stored on SQL Server Release 2 is necessary to do using SQL script in Microsoft SQL Management Tool. The script is available here. Download it to your local disc, connect to your database in Micorosft SQL Management Studio and run the script.
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 here. How to install new installation Register on Download page to receive company [...]
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 REST service.--> <webHttpEndpoint> <standardEndpoint maxReceivedMessageSize="4194304"/> </webHttpEndpoint> </standardEndpoints>
An evolution of software industry with Agile & Scrum
As part of our coaching activities we did presentation in Slovakia about agile as the next step in evolution of software industry.
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, learn and ask anything about agile.
ScrumDesk Basics Webinars
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 and documents will be explained too. We start on October 3rd! Register for upcoming [...]
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 our tools, in reality, the problem was missing knowledge about Scrum or agile. Sometimes [...]
ScrumDesk, valuable scrum project management tool
ScrumDesk, Scrum project online management tool fundamental principles.
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, our co-founder, Dusan Kocurek, had worked with Yves Hanoulle and other 30 people on [...]
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 more at Agile Prague webpages. But this announcement is not just about the conference. [...]
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. This is a pretty unique opportunity to attend due to many reasons. It is [...]
Agile adaption gaps identification
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 "How to identify problems more precisely"? Is there some way we can ensure we [...]