Features for ScrumMasters :: ScrumDesk – scrum project management tool

Features for ScrumMasters

ScrumDesk helps Scrum Masters to manage  impediments, support team self-organization and coach teams with the help of Scrum Coach rules.

We help to calculate team capacity & velocity, track changes and notifies the team about them. Scrum Masters appreciate integrated planning poker, retrospective and handy documents.

See a list of  all features

Project

Centralize project details.

Keep project documents in one place.

Manage teams, templates and customize ScrumDesk to represent your project.

Manage team

Team

Organize team members into hierarchical subteams.

Let the team to be represented as avatar or picture.

Activities

Do you need to know what happened since you was away?

Activities will inform you about the latest changes.

Cards

A card provides information necessary for daily work.

Keep acceptance criteria, business value and risks. Evaluate necessity applying Kano model.

See history, impediments and comments.

Draw dependencies. Categorize stories usingthemes, tags, releases and sprints.

Estimate effort using modified Fibonacci scale.

Keep related documents, screenshots and links  attached to story.

Treemap

Is your backlog huge? Is it hard to find if team works on the most important stories?

Do you need to find what is most valuable and important to develop now?

Use treemap to see stories colored based on one attributed and sized based on another.

Collaboration

Contact team working on the project or story.

Call them using Skype or Microsft Office Communicator.

Send them an email or access theirs blog.

ScrumDesk will notify team members about the latest changes via email and integrated real-time messaging.

Team members can easy contact product owners and send them screenshot of the board anytime.

Retrospective

Let the team to provide ideas for improvements.

Let team members to vote for most valuable ideas.

Track the status of ideas’ implementation.

Reports

Reports are measures of project, stories, people and value.

See agile metrics, overall statistics, burn down or burn up charts.

Visualize value added.

Access timesheets.

Documents

Get printed information with you.

Export information into Microsoft Excel or PDF format.

Write us if you need different document or layout.

Integration with 3rd party tools

We know that is not possible to develop a tool with all the functionality required by your daily usage.

We support export information into Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Sharepoint.

Import stories from CSV file.

Import users into ScrumDesk from your LDAP server.

ScrumDesk Synchronization Hub provides full synchronization of ScrumDesk and Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Hook Subversion and integrate it with stories in ScrumDesk.

REST API available for integration of ScrumDesk into your solutions.