ScrumDesk - online scrum project management tool

ScrumDesk can run in different scenarios, from single user up to multiple teams distributed over the globe.

User is authorized by login name and password.

Company can use multiple project databases hosted on different servers. Login screen is the place where to choose a project database.

Developers in company are typically working on more projects simultaneously.

ScrumDesk enables to access all the projects from one place.

Scrum master can bulid development teams by choosing users from a company contact list. Developers can be grouped to the teams.

ScrumDesk integrates bug tracking systems and project documentation server (Microsoft SharePoint, wiki pages).

ScrumDesk supports customization of colors for status indication.

This screen enables to set details for project’s synchronization with other systems

Agile project is developed in iterations. These iterations in Scrum method are called Sprints. Sprint has its time box, main goal, start date, duration, date of a demo.

Every sprint contains stories that product owner wants to have completed in the sprint.

Planning view can be used to manage product releases, their dates and description.

Very usable technique for size estimation is Planning Poker^®. ScrumDesk helps the team to view backlog stories groped by story size. Every poker round can be timed by time set before round starts.

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Every sprint in Scrum shoud have name, goal and notes.

Sprint is time box, it starts at start date and has its length (in working days) .Every sprint in Scrum ends with product demo. This demo is typically on the end of the sprint. ScrumDesk enables to set the demo when is needed.

Velocity is maximum size of sprint stories effort that  team is able to implement/ get completed. The value can be estimated using statistical data.

State of the sprint enables Scrum Master to control the progress. When a sprint is started, team members can start their stories and tasks, when sprint is marked as Done, changes of the stories are blocked.

Product Owner can create and manage releases. Every release has its name, finish date,  and brief description for the team.

Detail also displays more information about “release cost” – number of the stories, effort needed to complete the stories, % of completion.

Stories are “pinned” on desk.
User can change zoom, pan the desk and arrange the story cards over the board.

This screenshots shows desk zoomed to maximum board size.

To get more details about the story, user can zoom out to the story card.

Work with tasks and stories using task board. Manage your tasks by drag and drop, change task status, check the status using quick overview.

Backlog can contain many stories. It is a problem to find stories of top priority or the biggest.

Treemap is great way to visualize your stories. You can group stories, stories are colored according different story attribute.

ScrumDesk supports also “traditional” grid view. This view provides editing, multilevel grouping and sorting.

User can change all the story details including story color or release date.

Story in Scrum can represent any feature request, bug or risk.

Story is displayed in a form of a card.  Story has attributes  such as subject, detailed description, priority, effort and estimated duration.

Every story can be in one of following states: marked as To Do, checked out, solved or completed. Story state is indicated by color strip in top left corner and can be changed easily by click on this strip.

Estimation of the story size can be easy entered from planning card as used in the Planning Poker^®.

Stories can be categorized and colored.

To manage project, project stories can be divided into the tasks. This is the way how work can be distributed over a team. Anyone from the team can start to work on any task.

Task is described by name, state, assigned worker, estimated duration and current remaining duration.

Order of tasks can be freely changed.

Story progress id presented in story burndown chart. This chart displays number of remaining days expected by developers in given day.

Second line shows ideal story progress.

Stories can be categorized by story color.

This color can be used to group stories by feature, priority, state, requirement type.

User can freely choose which attribute color represents.

In advance, this detail window displays story history, all tasks and story progress burn down chart.

Stories can be tagged. Story can have attached files. Details enables to a user to enter impediments.

Story Detail enables user to enter impediments. Work on a story can be interrupted in any time by an unexpected reasons. This is an impediment.

Impediments are displayed in a burn down charts as well as on the index card.

Story can have attached files.
ScrumDesk can upload these attachments into a project database so files are accessible to even a distributed team Attachments can be downloaded by double click.

For every attachment thumbnail is displayed.

ScrumDesk supports sprint retrospective. Anyone from the team can contribute with his/her idea.

Team member can  vote for the best ideas which should be implemented to improve the process.

The retrospective card displays total points for idea. Ideas can be freely categorized, like “Mad”, “Glad”, “Sad”,…

Preview pane shows whole board and all story cards. Red rectangle highlight current displayed area in desk view.

Desk view can be easy scrolled by moving this rectangle.

Time schedule of the project is displayed in one place, in a timeline.

Timeline shows sprint, demo events and releases in one place. Current day is also highlighted.

Timeline is easy scrollable by dragging.

This panel displays sprint status overview including name, sprint state, % of completed stories, current occupation, storypoints available to be developed and number of displayed stories.

ScrumDesk provides easy access to a currently displayed sprint overview.

On the top of the Side View is displayed sprint name, goal and a small burn down chart. This chart shows real time calculated progress by a sprint stories details. Burn down chart displays ideal progress line too.

Next section of this view displays story statistics by state, count and an effort required to complete them. Third section displays  Effort statistics with an sprint occupation indicator.

Last section enables to Scrum Master to start or finish the sprint.

Progress bar displays sprint time flow.

Clicking on Edit button details in Sprint Detail dialog can be changed.

This SideView displays project name and a path to the project database.

Team members are displayed as contact cards with picture, first and last name.

This list can be filtered.

Team communication is accessible by buttons at the SideView bottom.

ScrumDesk provides easy access to the stories from following sprint or from backlog. User sees all stories that needs to be developed. Mini story cards displays priority and effort. Stories can be filtered by entering filter text.

Assigning planed stories to the current sprint is very easy, just by drag and drop. Uncompleted stories can be moved to the next sprint or back to the backlog.

When a story or an idea has been changed, notification appeared in a screen right bottom corner. These notifications are displayed in a News panel as well.

What more, after the ScrumDesk starts, it will display all changes from the user’s last logout.

Stories, tasks and other assets can be searched for a text.

Results are displayed in a list that displays asset name and name of the asset’s property where text was found.

Detail of the asset can be displayed just by double click on a row.

SideView panel  About Me enables logged user to change contact details. First name, last name and login name are not allowed to be changed due to a ScrumDesk licensing policy. Only ScrumDesk administrator can change these details.

Picture can be changed by a click.

Progress is displayed in the Reports view. This view shows:

• Velocity by sprints - stories effort in sprints, maximum velocity in sprints, effort distribution by state of the stories,
• Velocity by releases – amount of storypoints distributed by releases and by state of the stories.
• Burn Down charts for sprints
• Statistics support for better sprint estimation:
  • Worst 3 sprints mean
  • Last 8 sprints mean
  • Maximum effort
• Prioritization reports calculated based on business value

Themes progress can be analyzed in the Parking Lot report.

Every theme is displayed as a card with:

• theme name,
• count of the theme’s stories
• number of completed story points for theme stories
• total number of story points for theme stories
• progress indicator with % of completeness

If there is no theme defined, one card with overall statistics is displayed.

Report displays distribution of backlog’s stories by story status.

Daily Backlog Trend displays the project progress since project’s start to current day.

On Y axe are displayed remaining story points.

On X axe are displayed days.

Sprint end is displayed as a small red circles.

Managers required view on a work progress.

This report displays sprint progress in a form of the time sheet.

The time sheet is generated for all team members and selected sprint.

Under a story’s or task’s name is displayed name of the team member who is working on given tasks. In second column is displayed duration estimated before the task starts. Following columns displays values entered in a given day by the team member. In advance, for some values is displayed small arrow. Color of the arrow indicates exception of the estimated value.

Green arrow  indicates advance in a progress.

Red horizontal arrow  indicates that in given days no progress has been
recognized. This can indicate some unexpected problems with
implementation or that the user doesn’t update value.

Orange up arrow  indicates that value has not decreased, but increased.

Values displayed with a gray color are values for other team member who participates on the given task.

Stories and tasks can be easy filtered by a click on the team member.  Multiple team members can be selected. Team members can be easy filtered by a filter text box in the right upper corner of the screen.

Sprint can be selected in a combo box from left top corner.

• theme name,
• count of the theme’s stories
• number of completed story points for theme stories
• total number of story points for theme stories
• progress indicator with % of completeness

If no theme exists, one card with overall statistics is displayed.

Board with stories can be filtered by story state, text, themes or tags.

Stories of logged user can be filtered by checkbox  “My items”.

ScrumDesk team members can be easy accessible by internet phone or emails. There is no need to known nicknames or even email addresses. This is a simple way to keep every team member informed even in the teams distributed over the globe.

Supported 3rd party applications: Skype, Microsoft NetMeeting, Microsoft Office Communicator.