Meaningful Agile

ScrumDesk tracks all changes done by any team member. These changes are sent as an online notification to all team members and, at the same time, they are available in Activities page. The page is history browser displaying who, when and what has changed. Changes are grouped by item’s id and date of the change. To select different time period user can change dates in From and To [...]

All stories in ScrumDesk are stored in relation to a particular project. The project keeps not just stories, but team details, retrospective ideas, impediments, absences, and attachments. Project details are available by clicking on the Project menu item. The user can enter the project’s details and configure project variables, ScrumDesk options and integrate the project with 3rd party systems. Project details Field Comments Project The name of the [...]

Taskboard Taskboard displays sprint user stories and tasks as a kanban board. Kanban board is split into more swim lines according to the status. Colors of the swim lines are displayed based on the project settings (Project/Options). ScrumDesk task board allows changing the status of a task by drag and drop. Users can find useful statistic information for a story and for tasks as well. User stories can be [...]

ScrumDesk provides more way of backlog visibility. A board is probably most used, but in case of large backlogs users are losing orientation in it. For better orientation  ScrumDesk provides additional views. Board view Board simulates a wall board. It displays stories as cards and allows manipulate with them. The size of the board is dynamically changed to accommodate all cards on the board. To scroll the board [...]

ScrumDesk Windows user interface simulates the simplicity of wall board with a possibility to display the backlog in different styles, therefore, allows to better manage the product backlog. The user interface displays more views in separated tabs. This way can user works with more backlogs at the same time. The top row displays menu, the current project, logged user identification and his online status. The second row displays [...]

Repository/Database installation As a first step ScrumDesk administrator must install the database (On-Site edition) or register to receive credentials to the hosted database (On-Demand Edition). To read how to install a database read the Administrator manual. Connect to a repository Projects are stored in repositories/databases installed in the previous step.  As there can be more databases installed in the company, the team member must connect to the appropriate [...]

Getting StartedInstallationScrumDesk is available in the following editions:On-Demand Edition that supports hosting the project database on ScrumDesk servers. In this case, only the installation of the ScrumDesk client application is necessary. Users are informed via emails about credentials to log in to hosted database.On-Site Edition provides a possibility to install the database in the company environment. In this case, is necessary to install the database and client application as [...]

Import stories from CSV ScrumDesk v5 supports import of stories into project backlog from text files with the following format: Subject Description Importance Value Effort Risk Duration Spent Remaining Theme Comment line must starts with # character. The values must be separated with character The import can be started from the Tools menu. [...]

Introduction ScrumDesk supports the synchronization of artifacts with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 via ScrumDesk Synchronization Hub.  ScrumDesk Synchronization Hub is the package of a core application called  Hub and connects to 3rd party systems. The synchronization  (integration) provides a possibility to have instant access to your stories, tasks, and retrospective ideas directly in Microsoft Visual Studio, while still having a possibility to access the same stories in [...]