ScrumDesk - Testimonials

	Peter Liu It's actually amazing that I have received a response so quickly and your advice has solved my problem. I would like to take this opportunity to tell you how much I am enjoying ScrumDesk. It is by far one of the most intuitive and well thought out scrum management applications I have tried. I am currently reviewing it as part of an our shift into using scrum as our development methodology and have made a recommendation to my manager.
	Frank Torres Departamento de Innovación , Consultec S.L www.consultec.es I’ve found all the functionalities I expected, and the members of the team are satisfied, because they see the progress and the pending tasks. I think it will be “the tool” I was looking for. It’s a great tool and at first, when I was installing it, I received a great online support.
	Boris Gloger Scrum Trainer http://scrum4you.wordpress.com/ ScrumDesk is a big tool with many details and it’s not possible to cover them all on this review, but you can see that it’s a tool that can compete with the most known ones in the market and for the amount of features they provide the price it’s not high as some people may expect....if you look for a high tech tool, ScrumDesk is one that you can consider. (See article on Boris's blog)
	Robert Hale University of New England, Australia http://blog.une.edu.au/robbi/ I found this product by accident when looking for something to better manage our product backlog which I'd previously been doing using Excel. The transformation was near-instant. Even though we were mid-sprint at the time, within a morning I had entered the entire backlog into the product. The next morning we had automated burn-down charts and management reporting on stories and project progress. The only discipline we have had to enforce is for the team to update their progress but this is very simple using drag and drop graphical task boxes which are moved between states (not started through to done). We opted for a local installation of the MS SQS Server database once we'd tried out the remote ASP model for performance reasons (but we are in Australia). The application itself is .NET and has slotted into our existing SQL server Windows environment without any problems or issues. Thoroughly recommended. The product itself is growing all the time and the guys supporting it seem very receptive to user-suggestions for improvements or enhancements and the quality of support received to date exceeds that of the many much larger organizations I work with on a daily basis. In short, this product gives us everything we need to manage our Scrum deliveries. The product has some 'extra' capabilities outside formal Scrum but these don't have to be used if you don't want to use them. (such as using phases for delivery as well as sprints). Our business clients like the product too and we had them sitting round the same table using the online planning poker to plan and estimate stories for the current sprint. We achieved a 200 story point sprint for a team of sprint in 2 hours which I just know that previously we wouldn't have been able to do. I have not thoroughly reviewed other Scrum products but just don't feel the need to do so having used this one. It does everything we need, it works and the people who wrote and support it are only an email away if you ever need help.
	Luboslav Jochman, Project lead „The tool is easy to use, team likes it. Our stand up meetings are more effective. (ScrumDesk at pligg.scrum-on.com) Our project is part of large distributed project. Since iterative development was used there we had used MS Project Server to allow team members update status of existing tasks. During system integration test phase it is necessary to investigate and fix findings continuously. We consider this test phase as separate "project" where tailored agile process can be used to optimize expected results like test round duration, quality of fixes... It is necessary to know detailed status of all tasks daily. MS Project with such structure became lumpish and confused. In distributed project it is also necessary to share information about status to all sites on demand. Report has to be clear without any complexity. Without such tool communication takes more time especially in case of time shift between sites. We used SCRUM Desk for several sprints. Team took a liking it from beginning, because it is easy to use and it provide accurate information for whole team. Flexibility of SCRUM Desk helped us to use our experiences and customize data structure in each sprint. SCRUM Desk team is interested in our feed back and is able to introduce our suggestions to next releases. SCRUM Desk was provided for free for limited period. Since our project and company are very large it is necessary to get agreement for each used tool from high level management. ”
	David Laing Director, EveryAngle Software Development, UK „If you've outgrown your whiteboard, or need to manage an Agile project with virtual team members, then ScrumDesk is the product for you. Unlike most project management software it doesn't get in the way; but helps to automate the excellent Scrum processes in an intuitive and integrated manner. Highly recommended!”
	Goc Stanislav, COOPEX Soft Co-founder, Slovakia „We are using ScrumDesk since 2007 and this product is incredible. It's effective and easy to use management tool for Scrum. Our project contains more than 200 stories in 20 sprints and 5 releases. We can manage it very intuitive way thanks to ScrumDesk. ” Read more in COOPEX Soft Case Study
	Artur Kasprzyk President at Aion, Poland „We’ve played a bit with the demo version and it looks the tool meets our requirements.”
	Andrzej Pasterczyk, Software Quality Engineer „I've looked at the change log and it seems like there are some interesting improvements.”
	Peel Ryan, Application development supervisor „I am a huge fan of user stories and your product is definitely in tune with that. You have a nice smart-client application. You have a top shelf product!”
	Peter Sommers Published at SofoTex Software Downloads „I think that is very useful tool for project management. Concept of scrum methodology is presented in very intuitive way. We started to use this tool in our projects and team collaboration is very effective. We can see state of the project anytime we need. We are fully satisfied whit functionality of ScrumDesk.”
	Vladimir Oleksak, Scrum Master „We started to use this tool and feedbacks from team are very positive. The tool is simple to use and install but it follows SCRUM principles. We like intuitive GUI as well.”
	Kevin Jones Technical Samurai, Twisted Studio Ltd., UK „Features on 3.6 look great can't wait to upgrade from our 3.1, at least to 3.5 for the exports. Showed the team the features, they were equally excited to try them out.”
	Algunas herramientas ágiles „ScrumDesk is a management tool designed specifically to work with SCRUM, more agile development methodology known. Allows automate basic procedures of SCRUM, such as the development of product backlog (list of high-level requirements sorted according to priority), the sprint backlog (list of tasks that must be completed within a period of between 1 and 4 weeks) or User stories. You can see here the list of features.”
	Pau Larsen, IT Entrepreneur and Consultant, Software Inventions ApS „What can I say - amazing.”
	Will Leon Technical Lead, Online Projects „I am finding that it is an overall good product.”
	Łukasz Majta Novigo, ScrumMaster „ScrumDesk is very good and useful app for me and my team.”
	Samuel Lim Liones, Senior Developer „I like your product very much.”
	Hans Janssen CTO Founder & Owner at Triview, Netherland „First Impression: “whow”’ …Nice interfacing guys! We’ve seen and developed a lot of manuals over the last 15 years. I can tell you that your manuals looks very good, comparing to a lot of others around the world …”
	Aaron Eden Vice President, Webglimmer Internet Solutions, USA „We are very impressed with the capabilities so far.”
	Ronda Roberts, Bright Hub Product reviewer, Bright Hub, USA „If you are a software engineer, or the Scrum approach appeals to you, you will love ScrumDesk.”
	Andy Burton, Management Discovery Ltd. Managing Director, UK „Quite by chance I came across ScrumDesk. Not having come used Scrum before and rightly or wrongly believing it to be geared to software development, but it just seemed a fantastic tool to use for this project.”