A message from you A few days ago we received on our support page the following message from Dave: Don't add anything!!! The problem with many versions of agile software is they pack them with so many tools that the core functionality gets muddled. ScrumDesk desktop is so beautifully uncluttered that you don't have to [...]
AGILE ToolboX is a set of simple tools that agile team can use to support agile planning, daily standups or retrospectives. Agile ToolboX runs in the web browser on any platform. Cards Different card sets for backlog grooming, planning, team estimation or retrospectives. AGILE ToolboX supports multiple scales to estimate business value, effort or risk level. Teams can use Planning [...]
Two days before Christmas we have published an update of ScrumDesk. We hope your teams will find it valuable once they will plan the first release of the year 2015. The Goal The main goal for release v.0.3 has been a supporter of all core Scrum practices used by agile teams. From the improvement of planning, through daily life tracking [...]
ScrumDesk has been updated again. Thanks to all our customers who asked for new features we have implemented in this release. What we changed: [NEW] Release and Sprint can be restarted once it has been closed. [NEW] Password reset functionality in the login screen. [NEW] Password can be changed in the Profile [...]
We are happy to announce an update of ScrumDesk which is available for more than two months now. For more than two months about 800 active companies and universities have been using this simple, web-based, solution to manage Scrum or Kanban projects. Also, we are very thankful for a lot of comments, request and kudos you sent [...]
Daily life The Kanban board is a primarily visual tool for the self-organized team. Kanban board is split into multiple columns and rows (swimlanes). The main goal is to visualize work and its status. ScrumDesk board provides access to user stories and tasks selected for a particular sprint. Tasks and status Stories are typically [...]
Planning in Agile Our aim is to create a tool very similar to the physical board on which team members are working with cards in different corners of the planning board. The board that can be split into more panes and swim lines representing either backlog, different releases or sprints. The board on which you can see customer's stories. Product owners [...]
An index card for user story Fundamental XP practice is to keep requirements written on an index card. The index card should be: small, therefore requirement has to be written clearly, movable, so the product backlog is visually clean, resizable, so the size of cards can help to organize backlog, colored, so teams can categorize [...]
Epics and Themes Products are typically described by hundreds of requirements which are organized in the product backlog and represented by index cards. Large requirements, epics, cannot be completed in one sprint so they are broken into more user stories. Epics are then delivered in releases. But even small user stories from different epics can have something in common. Such a [...]
A lot of agile teams work for different clients. Projects are typically owned and managed by client and teams are contracted as developers who need an access to requirements and work tracking. ScrumDesk, therefore, supports a concept of projects listed by organizations for which you have been invited to work. Project details A new project is in [...]
In ScrumDesk you can track a work for one or more organizations. Organization account An organization account is created automatically based on information entered in Sign Up form. For this organization your user, the account will be assigned as an administrator which gives you privilege to manage user accounts plus other details (not available in beta). Send invitations Once you [...]
ScrumDesk, web edition for small Agile teams, is available now. With this edition we focused on small teams that do not need huge tool with lot of features, but need to accomplish the results quickly. Such teams typically apply fundamental Scrum practices focusing on: visual product backlog management, fast planning of multiple releases and sprints, [...]
Back to the Agile roots ScrumDesk is for Windows. Yes, with the Desktop edition until now. But not anymore. Because ScrumDesk Start edition will be born officially soon. When we were discussing ScrumDesk history, the development of product backlog since 2007, the world of Agile, and changes in technologies in the last six years, it was much [...]
The latest version brings the possibility to link files stored in Dropbox cloud service. ScrumDesk uses Dropbox application model which means that only files stored in Dropbox in Apps/ScrumDesk folder are available. The files might be linked to project, releases, sprints, stories, and tasks as well. How to link a file from Dropbox Click drop [...]
ScrumDesk company is proud to support the non-profit organization Heart of Borneo. The Heart of Borneo Rainforest is one of the most important and least studied ecosystems on earth, but it's disappearing at an alarming rate. Organization Heart of Borneo works to protect this rainforest from further destruction for the benefit of its inhabitants [...]
ScrumDesk company is looking for partners interested in collaboration in following areas: Consulting partners for trainers, coaches or mentors experienced in Agile, Scrum, XP or Kanban willing to share knowledge through Agile Knowledge Hub sponsored by ScrumDesk company and theirs partners. Business partners for resellers or anyone able to sell licenses and gain share [...]
ScrumDesk, Scrum project online management tool fundamental principles.
We would like to announce we decided to support startup companies. Requirements We will appreciate your reference that will helps us to keep our solutions updated constantly. We offer All our solutions (ScrumDesk desktop application, iPhone/iPad client, Subversion, BitBucket, FlowDock, Yammer and other 3rd party integration, Microsoft TFS synchronization) All features without data limits [...]
