Posted on 5, Dec 2011
Coaching of teams has been always great source of ideas for us. Many features in ScrumDesk have been implemented because of daily touch with real-life teams. You can benefit from that value built-in into our solutions what differentiate us from other project management tools. In coaching sessions we observed typical patterns that appear in every [...]
Read morePosted on 25, Sep 2011
We would like to announce a new regular ScrumDesk Basics webinar in which you will learn how to start with ScrumDesk quickly. Webinar will covers management of scrum project and teams using ScrumDesk. You will learn how to plan releases and sprints, how ScrumDesk is helpfull in sprint execution and in retrospective. Basic reports and [...]
Read morePosted on 27, Jul 2011
An email integration (to be available in the next version) allows all customers using Yammer (free private social network for companies) to share changes through it. All it is necessary is to put an email address into CC field of email configuration: post to network networkname@yammer.com post to group <groupname>+networkname@yammer.com post to team [...]
Read morePosted on 30, May 2011
Story card Story concept has been adopted since Extreme Programming defined principle of 3C (Cards, Conversation, and Confirmation). Scrum has incorporated the concept of the story written on the card. Card is easy to manipulate with and provides only necessary level of the information. Card displays three views – Detail displays basic information, Tasks allows [...]
Read morePosted on 23, May 2011
Scrum is a framework typically adopted by every company. ScrumDesk allows customizing it according to needs. Customization page Release types allows to define how important is the release and where will be deployed Release statuses. Companies track the status of the releases therefore they need to define statuses to be used. Story types. A story [...]
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ScrumDesk tracks all changes done by any team member. These changes are sent as an online notification to all team members and, at the same time, they are available in Activities page. The page is history browser displaying who, when and what has changed. Changes are grouped by item’s id and date of the change. [...]
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Team Manager It is suggested to have agile teams not bigger than 7-9 people. In case of big project this leads to having more teams that needs to be synchronized. ScrumDesk keep teams hierarchically organized in Team Manager page. In this page Scrum Master can: manage teams add/remove team members from the database define a [...]
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All stories in ScrumDesk are stored with relation to particular project. Project keeps not just stories, but team details, retrospective ideas, impediments, absences and attachments. Project details are available by click on Project menu item. User can enter project’s details and to configure project variables, ScrumDesk options and to integrate project with 3rd party systems. [...]
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Task board Task board displays stories and tasks as a kanban board. Kanban board is split into more swim lines according the status. Colors of the swim lines are displayed according project settings (Project/Options). ScrumDesk task board allows to change the status of task by drag and drop. It displays statistic information for a story [...]
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ScrumDesk provides more way of backlog visibility. A board is probably most used, but in case of large backlogs users are losing orientation in it. For better orientation ScrumDesk provides additional views. Board view Board simulates a wall board. It displays stories as cards and allows manipulate with them. The size of the board is [...]
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