Release date: June 30, 2008

Download it here,  Change Log for previous version 3.0

Version 3.1 is a minor upgrade.

Infrastructure upgrade

The main reason for a new version is an infrastructure upgrade. We moved licensing server to a new provider with higher capacity. Unfortunately,  this change requires update for all ScrumDesk demo or local installations.

Users are not required to update locally installed database.

User assignment

In previous versions task can be assigned to a user by drag a user picture from SideView. You can see it in our SideView screen cast. Many of customers asked us for old good habit user interface.

The best for them is combo box containing team members. Implemented combo box provides more information - user picture, name, relative comparison of assigned work, how much work days worker  is committed to do, and the role of the user.

Story Detail window was changed to displays combo box with team members if doesn't contains tasks.

If story contains tasks, it is unable to assign the story directly to the user. Only tasks can be assigned.

Developers workload

During the project planning was user's workload hard to determine. New version will display the comparison of user's work remaining relatively to other users. This progress indicators are automatically calculated after the assignment of the task to users.

In picture bellow you can see that Ivan Clarkson (at the bottom) has remaining work 0 days. The Scrum Master is assigned to tasks that will be developed in 11 days. Thus you can assign more work to Ivan.

The user with highest number of remaining work is 100%. Others' indicators are calculated relatively to this 100%.

Estimation = 0

Scrum masters asked us for an estimation check for 0 value.  If you check out the story or tasks and estimation is not set yet (it is 0), ScrumDesk will ask you if you really want to check it out.

Server and Database

Some of customers faces to a performance problem while editing connection information. ScrumDesk in previous versions was trying to help users with searching for available databases that could be used by ScrumDesk.

On the other side, search was sluggish in wide intranets with many computers. Changed dialog provides a search button for database searching.

Sprint planning support

When you are creating the new sprint, you are required to enter Capacity value. Capacity is number of story points that the team is available to develop in given sprint. Its value is typically calculated based on statistic values from previous sprints. ScrumDesk calculates this values, but they are available in Reports.

In new version you can find this values directly in Sprint detail window. This way you see values from previous sprints immediately and thus your capacity estimation can be done precisely.

Filter

We changed My Items check box functionality. From the version 3.1 has changed the mean of the check box to "only my items".

Reports

Daily Backlog Trend

Work progress can be seen in reports that displays sprint and release status. Some customers missed whole product work trend in one view. New Daily Backlog Trend displays work remaining to given day. End of sprints is displayed also as a red circles.

You can easy determine if work is going well. In this case your line will going down to 0 value. If your trend line is uprising, then you added some new stories to your backlog.

Project Stories by Status

This pie chart can be found on the page Reports / Product Overview. Chart displays stories estimated storypoints distribution by states. It is calculated based on effort (story points).