Relations of stories. Are they so necessary?

Posted on 18, Jul 2011

One customer asked us an interesting question regarding relations of stories in ScrumDesk. What ScrumDesk supports now is simple relations tracking solution. Very simple and basic functionality – possibility to track, see and print out it in documents. For the first look some basic functionality in ScrumDesk is missing. Functionality similar to Gannt chart way [...]

Read more

iPhone client (preview)

Posted on 30, May 2011

Let us share the work we are proud of.  We decided to move scrum project information from your desk to your hand.  Thanks to the latest ScrumDesk API we are finishing our ScrumDesk iPhone/iPad client these days. Read-only edition will be available for free so you can check a status of project in a train while travelling to work. [...]

Read more

ScrumDesk installation and licensing

Posted on 21, May 2011

Getting Started Installation ScrumDesk is available as following editions: On-Demand Edition that supports to host the project database on ScrumDesk servers. In this case only the installation of ScrumDesk client application is necessary. Users are informed via emails about credentials to login to hosted database. On-Site Edition provides a possibility to install the database in company [...]

Read more

Index Card in ScrumDesk

Posted on 16, May 2011

Scrum as project management is using concept of index cards introduced in Extreme Programming (XP). Cards are supposed to establish conversation and clarification of requirements.  Card in ScrumDesk displays more details than paper index card while still provides visibility. ScrumDesk index card’s advantages comparing to other project management tools: resizable many colors only necessary information [...]

Read more

ScrumDesk API

Posted on 19, Apr 2011

is API you asked for! We are proud to announce availability of API. ScrumDesk API provides a possibility to connect to project repositories via HTTP from 3rd party applications. Benefits high reliability, no problems with firewalls any client,  operating system,  technology or programming language REST interface, get data easy drill-through, filter and sort by HTTP request ScrumDesk [...]

Read more

Version 5.0.5 released

Posted on 10, Apr 2011

The installation is available here. Import stories from CSV ScrumDesk supports import of stories into project backlog from text files with the following format: Subject | Description | Importance | Value | Effort | Risk | Duration | Spent | Remaining |  Theme Comment line must starts with # character. The values must be separated with character [...]

Read more

Synchronize ScrumDesk and Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010

Posted on 19, Mar 2011

We have a great news today to share with you. Few months ago we decided to support Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 based on many your requests. TFS 2010 is a big improvement comparing to TFS 2008. Moreover, Microsoft company decided to support agile/scrum project management as well via Microsoft Visual Scrum process template. Even [...]

Read more

Synchronize ScrumDesk and Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008

Posted on

Introduction ScrumDesk supports synchronization of artifacts with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 via ScrumDesk Synchronization Hub.  ScrumDesk Synchronization Hub is the package of core application called  Hub and connectors to 3rd party systems. The synchronization  (integration) provides a possibility to have an instant access to your  stories, tasks and retrospective ideas directly in Microsoft Visual [...]

Read more

Free read-only licenses for your stakeholders

Posted on 20, Feb 2011

“As customer or stakeholder I do not want to wait two weeks to recognize the status of my project” Get customer on project board as chicken for free now! We, at ScrumDesk company, decided to provide free read-only licenses for your stakeholders or customers that needto have an access to your project stories, boards and plans. [...]

Read more

ScrumDesk v.5.0.3.37

Posted on

ScrumDesk In this release our team focused on improvements for administrators and user experience. Database Manager for SQL 2008 for SQL 2005 Administration Auto-assign of user license Licenses were necessary to assign separately from user accounts. In the new version licenses are automatically assigned to newly created accounts. Administrators are still able to assign licenses according [...]

Read more