ScrumDesk
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NP Score: 57 Based on 7 reviews 
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Torin | |
| September 25, 2008 | ||
| Commercial, Free | ||
| Hosted/Installable | ||
| Windows | ||
| Native, TFS Plugin |
Net Promoter Score Definition
Net Promoter Score (NPS) is an attempt to distill into a single value, what users of a company’s products think of it. Users are asked a single question along the lines of “How likely are you to recommend this product to a friend or coworker?”, which is the question used by the UserStories.com website. A product’s NPS is determined by subtracting the percentage of people unlikely to recommend the product (0-6) from those likely to do so (9-10). A more detailed description including examples is also available.
ScrumDesk
ScrumDesk is project management tool based on Scrum Framework.
Backlog
Stories are represented by index cards. Change the status of the story by click or by drag and drop. Stories can be grouped into themes. Every card can be colored. Files can be attached to stories. Create your story template and then reuse it. See the history of changes.
Cards can be accessed as a board, grid, task board (Kanban). Use tree maps to manage your backlog in very usable way.
See all impediments that are connected with stories. Impediments are indicated in charts too.
Planning
Plan releases and sprints. Assign stories to them by drag and drop. Occupation of the sprint is calculated. Planning poker for onsite estimating.
Retrospective
Put your ideas on the desk. Categorize them. Vote for best ideas.
Reports
BurnDown or BurnUp. Velocity charts by sprint and releases. Velocity statistics - minimal, mean last 8, mean 3 worst, average. End of release prediction. Parking lot to see progress of themes. Project status overall. Daily backlog trend. Team members timesheet.
Integration
Export stories, tasks and progres to Microsoft Excel. Call or mail to colleague by one click. Export retrospective ideas to SharePoint so your management can take an action. Easy send status to product owners by email. Data stored in database can be directly accessed by word processor or reporting services.
Direct access to your bug tracking page and project home page. Drag link or text to a sprint and story is created.
Synchronization
Synchronize ScrumDesk data with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Synchronization with other platforms is developed.
Other features
All project data can be accessed by internet. Team members are notified about changes. Search and filtering are supported. Customization.
Pricing Info:
Demo edition - access our demo database for free.
Full Edition - install you local databases
Hosting - access project database hosted on our servers
Pricing models
5 users are always free. If you need 7 licenses, then you pay only for 2.
30 days trial period for teams of any size.
| Subscription | $15-$18 per user/month. Full support included. |
| Package | $220 per installation. Support and upgrades for one year |
| Package + Maintenance | $50 per annual. Continue with support and upgrades. |
Product Reviews
Review
Pete Boon rated it a 1 on (August 09, 2009)
Review
vasundhara JM rated it a 8 on (December 08, 2008)
Team Collaboration as I feel
Monika Kantorova rated it a 9 on (November 27, 2008)
Very handy and easy to use tool which supports development needs. ScrumDesk is useful through the entire life cycle of a product. Provides all important and real-time information about your projects (progress, statistics, teams,...) on very handy dashboard.
Nice and easy to use!
Daniel Ferenc rated it a 10 on (November 26, 2008)
Instant productivity
Rob Hale rated it a 9 on (November 26, 2008)
I found this product by accident when looking for something to better manage our product backlog which I'd previously been doing using Excel. The transformation was near-instant. Even though we were mid-sprint at the time, within a morning I had entered the entire backlog into the product. The next morning we had automated burn-down charts and management reporting on stories and project progress. The only discipline we have had to enforce is for the team to update their progress but this is very simple using drag and drop graphical task boxes which are moved between states (not started through to done). We opted for a local installation of the MS SQS Server database once we'd tried out the remote ASP model for performance reasons (but we are in Australia). The application itself is .NET and has slotted into our existing SQL server Windows environment without any problems or issues. Thoroughly recommended. The product itself is growing all the time and the guys supporting it seem very receptive to user-suggestions for improvements or enhancements and the quality of support received to date exceeds that of the many much larger organisations I work with on a daily basis. In short, this product gives us everything we need to manage our Scrum deliveries. The product has some 'extra' capabilities outside formal Scrum but these don't have to be used if you don't want to use them. (such as using phases for delivery as well as sprints). Our business clients like the product too and we had them sitting round the same table using the online Planning Poker to plan and estimate stories for the current sprint. We achieved a 200 story point sprint for a team of sprint in 2 hours which I just know that previously we wouldn't have been able to do. I have not thoroughly reviewed other Scrum products but just don't feel the need to do so having used this one. It does everything we need, it works and the people who wrote and support it are only an email away if you ever need help.
ScrumDesk rules
Peter Prokopcak rated it a 10 on (October 18, 2008)
We've been trying and using several scrum products, but this one satisfies our needs perfectly. I do not think you will need to search another once you install ScrumDesk. Peter.
