On-Site Installable Version of Scrum Tool Planned

Deploy to suit your environment!

To get the best of Scrum and enjoy many features of our scrum software management tool, ScrumEdge plans to provide an installable licensed release that can be installed on-site on your web server.

Our Scrum tool’s impressive lineup of features, including sprint estimating, sprint planning, tracking of user stories, tasks, issues, etc will be available for you to use internally. This release will be particularly useful for those companies with sensitive strategies and data that need to reside on their local servers.

Expected Launch Date: June 20, 2010

New Version of ScrumEdge Goes 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.

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.

Update - New Version of ScrumEdge

The launch of the newest version of ScrumEdge has been delayed is now expected to be on May 13, 2010. Once live, you will notice that this version is significantly different from the last 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 changed the ScrumEdge landing page and all users will be directed to their projects dashboard once they sign up. This dashboard will give users a snapshot of all their projects with progress bars indicating each project’s progress.
• More detailed Sprint and Story Effort level reports will allow ScrumMasters and Product Owners to follow their sprints in more detail without any hassle
• No more free signs ups. Once this version goes live, 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
• 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.

ScrumEdge Major Update Coming Soon

We are set to launch a major update on April 30, 2010. This update includes some new features and a major interface update.

Update Details:

• Completely new interface that will give users a lot more screen space to play with
• New Project Dashboard
• More AJAX
• Better charts and progress bars
• Sprint and Story Effort level reports for Product Owners and ScrumMasters

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.

Coming Soon: ScrumEdge 2.0

ScrumEdge 2.0 is set to launch on November 25, 2009. In this new version we have added some new features requested by ScrumEdge users and removed issues reported by others.

New Features

• New intuitive Setup Wizard
• ScrumMasters can be assigned tasks on sprints
• ScrumMasters working on a sprint can report their time on the sprint log
• New Team Member dashboard
• Ability to zoom charts on the dashboard

Issues Resolved

• IE8 issues when trying to edit stories
• IE8 issues when trying to edit journals
• Old markup editor replaced with a new one

The Sign Up Process Explained

Who should sign up?

Only ScrumMasters are required to sign up for ScrumEdge. When a ScrumMaster signs up, they are set up as Administrators for their company’s ScrumEdge account. Administrators can add as many team members and other ScrumMasters as their plan allows. The basic plan available to all users allows Administrators to add up to 5 users.

What should team members do?

If you are a team member and would like to sign up, simply contact your ScrumEdge Administrator so they can add you to their ScrumEdge account as a team member.

How to find out who your ScrumEdge Administrator is

To find out who your ScrumEdge Administrator is, click on the Sign Up button on the main page to bring up the Sign Up window. Type in your company name in the selection box to see if it already exists. If you can’t find your company name in this selection box, then you don’t have a ScrumEdge Administrator yet. At this time you may sign up as your company’s ScrumEdge Administrator.

If you company name exists in the selection box, simply fill in the rest of the fields and click the Sign Up button. This will send your ScrumEdge Administrator an email with your sign up request. Once your ScrumEdge Administrator adds you as a new user, you should receive a confirmation email.

How does the ScrumEdge Administrator add a team member?

ScrumEdge Administrators can add new users, both ScrumMasters and Team Members, from the Users page. Details about adding users can be found on the ScrumEdge Help Topics page under the Users label.