On Joe Little’s blog [1] I found a nice review about some tools and some interesting thoughts:
“First, I recommend that people learn Scrum (for the first 6 Sprints or so) using magnetic stick pins and cards on a magnetic whiteboard. Or similar. With maybe an Excel sheet to do some math. Very simple.” [1]
I do [...]
Entries Tagged as 'ScrumTools'
Scrum Tools ! Review
Dezember 13th, 2009 · No Comments · English, Scrum, Scrum Artefacts, ScrumTools
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A game to bring Customers and Product Owners Together
Oktober 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 00 checked, English, Product Owner, Scrum, ScrumTools
Tobias Mayer played with us an innovation game called Speed Boat. This game helps people to work on new product ideas together. Have fun with this 5 minute video.
This game was invented by Luke Hohmann. And it is fun to play.
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RIA Summer Jam in München
Oktober 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Estimation, Events, Germany, Locations, Product Development, Scrum, Scrum Training, ScrumTools
[....] Weil der RIA Summer Jam 09 so schön war haben wir den Tag noch mal Revue passieren lassen und einige Eindrücke in Form von Texten und Bildern für euch zusammengestellt:
In der gelungenen Keynote mit dem Titel “Hilfe, Technik frisst Marke auf!”, präsentierte Boris Lakowski, wie mit Hilfe von Technik ein Mehrwert bzw. ein Wertverlust für Marken [...]
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Scrum Produto Template
August 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Brazil, Portuguese, Product Owner, Scrum Artefacts, ScrumTools
Oi, eu preciso exemplos de backlog de productos para os amigos no Brasil. Por favor enviada pra mi seu backlog template.
>> see also the page about Product Backlog Templates
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Taskboard Design
August 24th, 2009 · No Comments · English, Good to know, Scrum, Scrum Artefacts, Scrum Basics, ScrumMaster, ScrumTools
I am a big fan of good designed task boards. I found this very readable article that every ScrumMaster should have in his scrum bag.
Elements of taskboard design
In this article I am compiling different elements or aspects of the way I build and use team task boards. Some ideas are old, some are original; some [...]
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One day tasks – I do not like anymore
August 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · English, Scrum Artefacts, Scrum Basics, ScrumTools, Tipps
There is a wonderful article about one day tasks that I strongly recommend to read:
One day tasks
February 15, 2009 in Visual management by Xavier Quesada Allue | 8 comments
One day tasks are tasks that take -in theory- up to one day to complete by one person, or by a pair of people in the case [...]
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Tobias Mayer wrote about the Taskboard | Scrum Tools
August 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 00 checked, English, Methods, Scrum Artefacts, Scrum Meetings, ScrumTools
This is a review and a comment about the great article of Tobias Mayer: “The Heart of Scrum.” [1]
“The longer I teach and coach Scrum, the more I become convinced that the task board is the heart of Scrum. Without the task board there is no center, no focus, no hub.”
I completely agree. The task board [...]
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The 10 things I use most:
August 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 00 checked, English, Ideas, ScrumTools
The 10 things I use in my professional life most of the time:
1) Mail.app and Google Mail / Google Apps
Google Mail, or Google Apps together with the best Mail Client on the Mac makes my life easier. They are my communication backbone. Sure I use also Skype and sometimes GTalk, but Email is still [...]
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Moderationstechniken für ScrumMaster
Juli 8th, 2009 · No Comments · 00 checked, After a training, Deutsch, Germany, Methods, Scrum Meetings, ScrumTools
Die Moderationsmethode als Basis Werkzeug des ScrumMasters.
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Scrum Tools | VersionOne | Review
Mai 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Scrum, ScrumTools
VersionOne is one of most well-known tools to manage agile projects on the market. With a great amount of functionalities VersionOne can be used with many agile flavors, Scrum included. With some many features, as you can imagine, VersionOne will require a significant financial investment to use it, so is recommended that you try the [...]
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Scrum vs. Kanban
April 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments · English, Production Systems, Scrum, ScrumTools
Karl Scottland, asked me to give you more precice information about Scrum and Kanban. He http://availagility.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/kanban-flow-and-cadence/
A Kanban system is a mechanism for controlling the work in the software development system. Kanban can be defined as “visual card”, as shown below – kindly written for me by Kenji Hiranabe [?] at Agile 2008. read more about [...]
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Scrum Tools | 2009
März 1st, 2009 · 41 Comments · 00 checked, Scrum, ScrumTools
Scrum Tools are a topic that is very important for the readers of my blog. We will continue to write reviews every couple of weeks this year.
Scrum Tools | Reviews to date
Agile Buddy
Acunote
Banana Scrum
FireScrum
Mingle
ProjectCards
Scrumy, Scrumy Pro
ScrumDesk
SpiraPlan
Protonotes
Taskboard
tinyPM
Version One
XPlanner
XPLive
About Tools
The Good and Evil of Taskboards
Distributed Environments
Other Scrum Tool Compilation Lists
Scrum Tool Round Up
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Scrum Tools | VersionOne
Februar 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · 00 checked, English, Scrum, ScrumTools
I have known VersionOne since I first used it 3 years ago. V1 is a very powerful Scrum Tool that helped a lot of teams all over the world. I refused to do a review so far, because I did want to give other tools a voice. I regard V1 as big player so they do not [...]
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Planning Poker
März 20th, 2008 · No Comments · 00 checked, English, Estimation, Scrum, ScrumTools
Planning poker (a mixture of expert opinion, analogy and fun) is the best way for all members of an Agile team to reliably estimate a user story or theme. As an example of how it works each estimator is given a deck of cards reading 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40 and [...]
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Scrum World Tour | 2008 | Brazil | Recife
Januar 24th, 2008 · No Comments · 00 checked, Agile Planning, Brazil, English, Events, Scrum, Scrum Training, ScrumTools
The music continues. And Boris writes, “Did you know that Carnivals in Brazil are all different – Rio de Janiero, Recife and Puerto Alegre are all different to each other? Much like the differences between the carnival in Mainz and Cologne. They each have their own masks with those of Rio being the most expressive, [...]
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