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ScrumDesk 5.21.3: Move subtasks. Integrated payment
The latest version of ScrumDesk suite allows you to pay for user licenses and to buy additional packages directly from the application. VISA/MasterCard/Diners Club cards are accepted. Move subtask to other backlog items Until this version, it was possible to move subtask to other backlog item displayed on Kanban board in WORK view. Now you can move it to any other backlog item as well. Just click the subtask. Click [...]
ScrumDesk 5.21.1: Root Cause Analysis
RCADesk - new module for root cause analysis Are your development teams blocked by impediments? Are you sure you solve the right problems? Agile teams often hit a wall with problems they are not able to solve easily. More often they even try to solve just the first level of problems and not root causes. Process improvement is fundamental practice for ScrumMasters. No, Scrum mastership is not about appointments or [...]
ScrumDesk and Slack Integration
Create web hook in Slack Click Integration page in Slack.com team page. Add Incoming webhooks integration Choose channel where your messages from ScrumDesk should be kept. Configure this integration webhook icon, description and keep URL that is needed in ScrumDesk Configure Slack integration in ScrumDesk Click Project Setup gear icon in the left panel. Scroll down in PROJECT page to Integrations group. Paste Slack webhook URL that can be found [...]
ScrumDesk 4.20.3: Multilevel Requirements Hierarchy Backlogs
Multilevel of requirements was very often repeated request of our clients in the year 2016: to manage a portfolio of multiple small products in the same backlog, to manage non-development aspects of the product as well, to manage complex product with multiple modules, to manage activities and tasks for multiple clients. We have added multiple levels of requirements into the ProductDesk module in Story Map: Epic for top level requirements [...]
Buy ScrumDesk with user stories map, retrospectives or root cause analysis
Did Story Map and Retro menu items disappear from the left menu on ScrumDesk Start? Your 30 days trial period is over. ScrumDesk consists of multiple modules: ScrumDesk - the module for Scrum project management available for all customers for free. ProductDesk - commercial module ($99 one time payment per company) that helps product managers/owners to define the product, its vision, features, roadmap and map customers. The story map [...]
Change of ScrumDesk pricing
Looking back into history of ScrumDesk It is October 2013 7:00 PM. There it is. The first commit into our git with the newest web application we started to develop. From scratch. But it is not the first one. We even had two other working web applications which were unfortunately not designed as we envisioned for the best scrum project management tool for small and medium size agile teams. [...]
ScrumDesk for Windows is retired
What happen?ScrumDesk Professional for Windows has been available since 2007. It was the fifth tool on the market at that time delivered globally.More than 98% of computers had Windows installed at that time. The Internet has been growing up. ASP.NET applications were modern and JavaScript started to be trendy for simple animations. Internet Explorer was the most used browser and people spent a lot of time observing request-response communication.Since then [...]
ScrumDesk 4.19.2: Link Google Drive & DropBox files
Attach files stored in Google Drive Are your files shared in Google Drive? No need to download them and upload to ScrumDesk again. Just paste the link into Attachments section in the side view. As the first get a shareable link from Google Drive. Do you prefer DropBox? In the case of DropBox, you can get shareable file link from the desktop client application, or from the [...]
Start v.4.19.1: Timesheet improvements
Hey Start users! Thank you for your feedback you sent us this summer. We could only say that is the real motivation for us! As summer has ended already, we are back in the game. This time we published few minor changes. We work on new more complex staffs as well, but you know, it takes time to develop minimum viable product. So bigger expectation should be fulfilled in the [...]
ScrumDesk 4.18.10: Usability improvements
Since 2007 we are used to slow down our development during the summer. Simply to stop sprinting and rather to fill-up our energy tank. That, however, doesn't mean that nothing is created! This summer we concentrated on usability improvements which you, our users, proposed. Release backlog items Until now, in PLAN, it was only possible to display release backlog items which are unassigned to any sprint. It was hard for [...]
ScrumDesk 4.17.2: Business Value and Complexity Charts
Tasks in burn down chart Experienced agile teams don't estimate tasks and therefore they need just to track how tasks are solved. If this is your situation, choose TASKS in burn down chart legend and there you are. Cumulative Flow Chart for tasks Cumulative flow chart displayed backlog items so far. Tasks are however important in case you need to identify bottlenecks in your process which can be customized with [...]
ScrumDesk 4.16.3: User Story Readiness
Use what you need! Some of our clients are keen to use retrospectives, while they do not use Scrum because they prefer physical boards. Some other prefer simple backlog and not the story map. So now account administrator can activate selected modules which will make theirs functionality available to all organization team members. To activate, or deactivate the module, go to Account settings available for account administrators by click on avatar [...]
ScrumDesk 4.16.2: The Workflow Customization
How to deal with complex tasks In Agile there are multiple approaches how to dealing with the complexity of software development. Some companies prefer to break down user stories into subtasks. Such companies are more focused on creative work where Scrum is very helpful. The type of subtasks is even predefined in some Definition of Done very often. Other companies need to organize work within the repeated processes. These [...]
ScrumDesk 4.16.1: Export Backlog Items
Export backlog items Did you ever need to do a deep analysis of your sprint, or product backlog for management and stakeholders? Didn't ScrumDesk support such analysis? Showstopper? NOT ANYMORE! You can thank Rick. Just two steps.... Export currently displayed backlog items to CSV by click on Export menu item displayed at the top of views. take a breath, deep dive, deep dive, deep dive.... 30 attributes are exported so you should [...]
ScrumDesk 4.15.2: Bulk Edit of User Stories
This week's version of ScrumDesk brings to you only a few changes, but you will highly probably welcome. Bulk editing If you ever needed to change more attributes of the backlog item at once, now it is a good time to start. Start just with a selection of multiple cards either in STORY MAP or PLAN view and then change necessary attributes. Not all attributes are possible to change as that makes no sense [...]