Sprint
Sprint view displays current sprint details – sprint name, sprint goal. A second part is a burn-down chart.
Bellow the burndown chart is sprint stories statistics and sprint effort overview displayed. The big red button enables the Scrum master to easily change sprint status. Right beside the button time progress indicates sprint start, end, and current day.
Project
Tab Project displays basic information about the current project: project name and server and database containing this project.
All team members are displayed in a list. For every member is displayed picture, name, project role, and a team name. Team members can be filtered by entering text.
Members of the team can be directly contacted by IP phone or email. These buttons are enabled if the user has filled in the corresponding information.
Story assigned by drag and drop
You can assign the user to a story or a task just by using drag and drop. Drag a picture to the story or vice versa.
The team member’s progress bar indicates his relative workload to other team members. The number shows the total count of days assigned to a team member in the current sprint.
Color of the progress indicates:
- Green color – remaining time of assigned tasks will fit to end of the sprint
- Orange color – remaining time of assigned tasks will fit up to 90% of sprint time
- Red color – remaining time of assigned tasks will not fit sprint
Backlog
Next Sprint View, known from previous ScrumDesk versions, has been integrated into the Side view. The functionality of the panel doesn’t change. Just drag a story from the panel to the main board or vice-versa.
Search
ScrumDesk supports search now. As a result, is displayed name of the founded asset and an attribute name in which searched text has been found. The result is grouped by assets type.
To display more details, double-click on the row. Details are displayed only for a sprint, release, story, impediments, and attachments.
Tags
To better categorize stories, tags can be used now. Any story can be tagged by one or more tags. Tags must be separated by “;” character.
Stories can be easily filtered using a tag cloud, a feature known from many websites. To display all stories, click Show all stories button.
News
When a story or an idea has been changed in the previous ScrumDesk version, a notification appeared in the screen right bottom corner. Now, these notifications are displayed in a News panel. In advance, after the ScrumDesk starts, it will display all changes from a last user’s logout.
To display more details, double-click on the row. Details are displayed only for a sprint, release, story, impediments, and attachments.
About Me
SideView panel About Me enables a logged user to change contact details. First name, last name, and login name are not allowed to change due to a ScrumDesk licensing policy. Only the ScrumDesk administrators can change these details.
The picture can be changed with a click.