ScrumDesk - online scrum project management tool

Integration with 3rd party tools

REST API

ScrumDesk data can be accessed via ScrumDesk API. API are REST webservices that provides data in JSON, XML or ATOM format.

ScrumDesk company offers API in following forms:

1. for existing On-Demand customers, API is available on our servers at this URL. You will be asked for credentials to access your repository (database). Please enter {RepositoryName}\{Team Member name} as user name in login dialog.
2. On-Site customers can install API on own servers. Check Installation guide how to install API and configure it for your environment. The local installation requires Windows 2008 Server,  IIS 7 and ASP .NET 4 to be installed.

See more:

• Install Guide
• ScrumDesk API Getting Started (How To)

Microsoft Team Foundation Server

ScrumDesk artifacts is possible to synchronize with Micorsoft Team Foundation System items via Synchronization Hub tool. This tool supports synchronization in both directions so your developers can still use TFS plugins to update stories or tasks while product owner can use great support of product wonership delivered by ScrumDesk.

TFS doesn’t allow to diplay a board. Synchronization with ScrumDesk will provide this capability to your teams.

• Read more about Synchronization Hub here
• Register for Synchronization Hub

Microsoft Excel^® support

For further analyses not supported by ScrumDesk or for users that are not using ScrumDesk it is possible to export data to  Microsoft Excel.

Exported file contains following worksheets:

• Stories and tasks
• Stories
• Tasks
• Tasks history
• Impediments
• Retrospective ideas

Worksheet are designed for quick status overview. In advance, user can create pivot tables to better analyze project status.

Version Control Systems

Subversion repositories is possible to synchronize with ScrumDesk using Subversion-ScrumDesk Hook. This plug-in allows to keep commit changes written to story comments hence keeping information integrated.

Bug track databases

ScrumDesk integrates your favorite bug track page together with the project management. Team members can work with bug tracking system they are familiar with. You don’t need to change or convert your bug database.

In advance, user can easy create story just by drag and drop text displayed in a browser.

If you are looking for different systems synchronization, click here.

Project web pages

Many companies use their own document management systems (wiki, Microsoft SharePoint,..). ScrumDesk provides access to such systems and integrate them into the management desk.

Call, email, know more about developers

To simplify communication within team ScrumDesk integrates internet calls application (Skype, Microsoft NetMeeting, Microsoft Communicator,…).

Every story is connected with developers that are working on it. User can anytime display dialog Connect team memberwhich will displays developers list.

This dialog enables to:

• call developer by IP phone application
• email to selected developer
• look on developer personal web pages or his blog

Microsoft SharePoint

Microsoft SharePoint is widely used in many small business or in an enterprise environment. ScrumDesk customers requires due to a company processes to export retrospective ideas into a SharePoint’s lists. Ideas are than managed by project managers.

LDAP

To simplify user management ScrumDesk support user import from LDAP server. Import can be accessed only by administrator. In demo version this is unsupported feature.

Import users from LDAP