Scrum Tool
This is a very simple Scrum tool to manage your Scrum projects with sprints, stories and tasks.
You can run it on a Windows or Linux desktop.
Your data will be stored in a PostgreSQL database.
To learn the concept behind this software, read the book
Scrum and XP from the Trenches by Henrik Kniberg
or some other sources about Scrum software development.
You can use this tool in Scrum development projects (we are using it successfully), but it is not a complete product yet.
Our plan is to finish this software to be a complete commercial product, but now it is freely avaliable.
Features
You can manage your whole scrum projects in a very simple and efficient way using this scrum tool.
- Sort your backlog items using drag and drop to change importances automatically.
- Print or export story cards for white board based sprints.
- View, export or print Burndown Chart.
- Put colored tags on stories.
- Filter your backlog to find items.
- Manage multiple products.
Links
Read the first known review and see some screenshots of Scrum Tool at
John Hines' blog on Agile software development and Scrum
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Download
Windows
Linux
Linux versions are built and tested on Ubuntu 9.04 (32 bit). They are tested and working on Fedora 11 as well.
You can check the changelog here.
Installation
- Create an empty PostgreSQL database on your server with UTF-8 encoding.
- Install the sofware or extract the the .tar.gz file somewhere.
- Start the ScrumTool(.exe) executable file.
- Be sure, that your database user has rights to create tables and indexes.
- Connect to the database.
- The software will create the database tables, indexes.
- Start managing your products, product backlogs and sprints.
- Do database backups regularly or create a script to do that automatically.
Upgrade
- Create a database backup.
- Install the new version of the software.
- Be sure, that your database user has rights to create tables and indexes.
- Start the new version of the software, it will upgrade the database automatically.