New Version of ScrumEdge’s Online Scrum Tool is Live

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.

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.

 
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 smaller fonts should make text more readable and information has been organized such that users can view all project related information without having to navigate through too many pages.
• 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. ScrumMasters and Stakeholder can view these details on the Product Backlog and Sprint pages
• Free 30 Day Demo: Users can sign up for a free 30 day demo. Simply click the “Free Online Demo'” button on the main page.
• Setup Wizard Removed: We have removed the ‘Setup Wizard’ as many users were having problems running it. Instead we have added ‘Tips’ on most pages to help users navigate their way around the site.

Major Scrum Tool Update Coming Soon

The launch of the newest version of ScrumEdge’s online scrum tool is expected before Christmas. Once live, you will notice that the new version is significantly different from the current version.

Update Details:

• 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.
• We have removed the ‘Setup Wizard’ as many users were having problems running it. Instead we have added ‘Tips’ on most pages to help users navigate their way around the site.

Expect more details of this release as we get closer to the release date.

ScrumEdge 2.0 Released

We are pleased to announce that ScrumEdge 2.0 is release today. We have added many new features in this release and resolved some issues reported by our users. Some of the major changes in this release are listed below.

New intuitive Setup Wizard

We have done away with the old Setup Wizard and built a new one from scratch. The new Setup Wizard is easier to use and has write ups for each step to assist users. Check out the demo video for the Setup Wizard to find out more.

ScrumMasters can be assigned tasks on sprints

ScrumEdge now allows ScrumMasters to be assigned to tasks in a sprint. When ScrumMasters sign in they should see a ‘Sprint' Log’ tab on their Dashboard. If they are assigned any tasks on the current sprint they should be able to report their effort on each task under the ‘Sprint Log’ tab.

New Team Member dashboard

We have changed the dashboard for Team Members so they can view charts for any sprint assigned to the project they are working on. This will allow Team Members to view a project’s details from the very beginning.

Ability to zoom charts on the dashboard

All ScrumEdge users can now zoom any chart on their dashboard. This feature is particularly useful for teams with long sprint durations.

Interface Updates

We have updated the way projects, sprints, stories, users, tasks, issues and retrospectives are added and modified. In ScrumEdge beta all additions and modifications were made through pop-up dialogs and many users reported issues when using IE 7 and IE 8. ScrumEdge 2.0 no longer uses pop-up dialogues. Check out the demo video for the Tasks page to see the new addition and modification mechanism

More AJAX – Faster Processing

ScrumEdge 2.0 uses a lot more AJAX so you will see very few post backs. This has made processing faster and should improve the overall user experience.

Take ScrumEdge 2.0 for a test drive and let us know what you think. We always encourage user feedback as it helps us make ScrumEdge a better online scrum management tool for you. You can send us your feedback at info@scrumedge.com or from our ScrumEdge Feedback page.