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Meaningful Agile
Personal Map: The Tool to Strengthen The Team
Do you feel that your team needs to improve relationships, or do you want to help them get to know each other better? Try personal maps with them, and you will not regret it. A personal map is a technique that helps people find common topics for conversation effortlessly and easily. Get inspired on how to create them easily and how to make them a fun teambuilding activity. [...]
What is Minimum Viable Product
Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a frequently used word today in development. For a Product Owner it is one of the foundations of Agile and a successful product. However, are you sure you know what MVP is and how it differs from the minimum marketable product (MMP)? Many people mistake or misuse these terms. Even when you google the definition of MVP, it is very easy to come across confusing [...]
How to substitute the Product Owner or Scrum Master during vacation
It’s finally hot outside, and plane tickets to Spain are cheaper. Relaxing by the sea or relaxing from these heatwaves in Norway means temporarily leaving your team. Even if you only leave for two weeks, it may be challenging for them. Or for you, if during your vacation instead of googling the opening hours for the closest bar you’re dealing with 20 missed calls. To make your absence [...]
ScrumDesk, GitHub, BitBucket and Redmine integrations
GitHub integration Is your project stored in GitHub while the project is managed in ScrumDesk? From now don't forget to mention #ScrumDeskBacklogItemID in the commit, or comment, or wiki page title and the link to them will be added to the related backlog item stored in ScrumDesk. Following events are supported: commit comment, wiki page, issue commented, new issue added, or issue title updated, pull request, push, pull [...]
GitLab integration + full screen
GitLab integration Agile teams use a lot of tools these days, especially thanks to DevOps. GitLab is definitely one of the best DevOps tool on the market. It allows to track and manage a variety of activities and assets which can be connected to your product or sprint backlog items. ScrumDesk and GitLab are now tightened closer together by synchronization of: push events, merge request events, comments, [...]
Meet Coach at ScrumImpulz 2019 Agile Coaching Clinic
Ladislav Medveczky Ladislav Medveczky Linkedin ProfileIT engineer, manager, and agile enthusiast who believes that trust leads to much better results than micromanagement.Laci started as a software developer in 1995 in ArtInAppleS, a pioneer and evangelist company of OOP and Smalltalk in Central Europe. In 2000 Laci joined Siemens where he worked on the development of telecommunication software. In 2007 he became a team lead, project manager, and [...]
Manage ScrumDesk Project with Slack
Project management in agile team is done by everybody. This is not an easy task. It requires discipline and drives the focus of the team away from the main activities they like more. ScrumDesk online project management tool is built by our team with a passion for agile practices. We love transparency, the possibility to inspect and to adapt. To improve every day. Many times ideas come from clients [...]
Secure your account with two factors authentication
Enable Two Factors Authentication The two factor authentication increases the security level by inclusion of the mobile device into the authorization process. You will need to enable two factor authentication first: Log into ScrumDesk. Click the avatar in the left menu. Click on the My Profile menu option. Click EDIT button at the top menu to enable 2FA. Click the button ENABLE TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION. [...]
Import Trello Board to ScrumDesk
Do you manage projects in Trello? Trello is a great tool for small projects managed by small teams who need transparency of the Kanban board. Trello enables also to tracking of additional information. Anyway, once you think about Scrum, Trello becomes less useful as it lacks important parts that should be in the Scrum project. To find more, read Why is ScrumDesk better than Trello article. If you [...]
Mentors you will meet at ScrumImpulz conference Coaching Clinic
Zoltán Šipkai Zoltan is a passionate Agilist and tireless seeker of knowledge who believes that the best way to create great software is to nurture a safe, positive and inspiring environment. In his opinion, the central component of the software are people who largely determine the product’s success. Currently, he works as a Scrum Master and Agile Leader with software development background and 8+ years of [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Education track
Did you know that Agile can help students to learn in a more fun, collaborative and results-oriented way? How? More than 100 schools in Slovakia apply eduScrum already in the learning process. That definitely help grow our future colleagues ready for future innovative products that have to be built in a highly collaborative environment of self-organized teams. Join us at specialized track focused on agile practices in the [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Willy Wijnands, eduScrum
Does the education system prepare our children and young generation for future needs? A lot of people have a feeling that there must be a different way how to educate. Of course we are not teachers and therefore we do not want to state how it should be. But everybody observes that the world is moving towards creative processes and products where collaboration as a capability is more [...]
Why are Agile Manifesto Principles so important?
On Agile briefly Agile methods are methods that apply iterative and evolutionary development. 12 agile principles employ adaptive planning, promote incremental delivery, and include other values and practices that encourage agility. What does that really mean for software development? What are the implications for daily business? Let's analyze these principles and see where this gets us. Agile principles and practices help deliver working products more frequently from a [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Karel Smutny
Four years ago, I spent a couple of months in Prague, a beautiful city in Czechia. We supported the agile transition of the big insurance company for a few months so I had a lot of time to spend there. What is natural behaviour for agile enthusiasts? To look for some other agile enthusiasts available in the city. I found Karel Smutny at that time. He already worked [...]
ScrumImpulz 2019: Marcus Hamrin, Spotify
Spotify. Well know the name of the company that has changed our behavior how we do listen to music. Not so many years ago we were used to listening to CD, later to MP3 or Internet radio. We were buying albums. Of course, this movement has started to be popular by Apple, but Spotify made music available for free in the basic Spotify edition. But it is not [...]