We are pleased to announce that a new version of ScrumEdge has been released today. We have added many new features in this release and resolved some issues reported by our users.
Major Updates:
- Interface: We have done away with the old interface and come up with a completely new and more intuitive interface. Among other things, you will notice that this version will give you a lot more screen space to play with. The use of bigger fonts should make text more readable and some slick progress bars will give users the ability to check out project, sprint, story and task level progress at a glance.
- Projects Dashboard: We have introduced a new project level dashboard that all users will see when they sign in. This page will display all projects the user is assigned to along with a basic snapshot of the number of sprints, stories and users that are assigned to each project. Progress bars will allow users to see project progress at a glance. Clicking on any project should take users to their main dashboard.
- Story and Task Efforts: More detailed Story and Task Effort level reports will allow ScrumMasters and Product Owners to follow their sprints in more detail. Users can view their story efforts under the backlog tab. Clicking on the the number of tasks for a story should give them a view of the task level efforts. Users can also view the story effort for a particular sprint by clicking the number of stories link in the sprint snapshot section on the dashboard.
- No More Free Signups: Users will not be able to sign up unless they purchase a plan. A free online demo will allow users to go through ScrumEdge and see how it works. Users can take the ScrumEdge demo by clicking the “demo” button on the main page.
- Google Ads for Existing Users: Existing users with free accounts will see Google ads at the top of each page. We know this somewhat effects the user experience but we gotta make a buck too. Ads can be removed by purchasing a subscription plan.
- Community Feature Removed: We have removed the community feature from ScrumEdge. When we started we had thought this would be a good feature that would allow different Scrum teams interact and discuss their scrum related problems and achievements. However, this idea never caught on and very few teams were actually using the feature.
