This articles series is example how to start using SCRUM in your projects with help provided by ScrumDesk.

Our example project will be a  RSS Reader, application that will provide easy access to RSS articles provided by many web sites.

And we are starting right now...

Who

Product Owner

Scrum Master

1. Login to ScrumDesk

At first is user required to login. After the ScrumDesk starts, Login dialog will  appears. Enter your user name and the password. Also, don't forget to check selected database. In our example, we will use demo.scrumdesk.com database that is hosting all demo projects.

2. Create new project

Pressing Login button will Projects dialog appear. As we want to create new project, we will click on Create new project hyperlink in right bottom window corner.

3. Define your project

After few seconds will be new project with default name "Project *17*"  created. In this step we will define our project.

Sprint length

Scrum method split development time in time boxes called Sprint. Sprint is typically 30 calendar days long. ScrumDesk is using  working days. In RSS Reader example we will use 10 working days sprint length.

Bug tracking

ScrumDesk simplifies access to the web bug tracking systems by web browser integration. We don't want to develop new bug tracking system. We prefer integration.

For RSS Reader project we will use as bug tracking system ScrumDesk forum web pages.

Enter www.scrumdesk.com/forum as bug track URL.

Project documentation home page

Every project needs some kind of documentation.  ScrumDesk integrates view on your web based documentation system (Microsoft SharePoint or some wiki system).

Enter www.scrumdesk.com as project documentation web server.

Your project has to look like this: