Features for Teams :: ScrumDesk – scrum project management tool

Features for Teams

ScrumDesk help agile teams plan, estimate and execute successful sprints.

ScrumDesk tracks progress by simple drag and drop. Teams are able to estimate and do retrospective even they are distributed.

In addition, ScrumDesk saves time by integration with 3rd party tools. You do not need to update status in more tools. You can even develop your own integration using our public REST based API that support JSON.

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.

See online status of your team members.

See timezone of your colleagues.

Activities

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

Activities will inform you about the latest changes.

Visual taskboard

Visualize backlog stories in a task board.

Move cards around, zoom in to see details, zoom out to have an overview.

Examine your backlog using gridtreemap or Kanban board.

Apply filter to find stories. Search information.

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.

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 using themes, tags, releases and sprints.

Estimate effort using modified Fibonacci scale.

Keep related documents, screenshots and links attached to story.

Files

Access documents and files related to project, releases, sprints or stories.

Capture screenshots and attach them immediately.

Share files across locations and teams.

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 time sheets.

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.