TABLE OF CONTENTS

Basic Operation
Work Estimates
Burndown Charts
Data Export
Useful Conventions
SCRUM Resources

INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE SCRUMBOARD

Online scrumboard application from TangyOrange supports collaboration of teams following the SCRUM process. It facilitates planning, management, and tracking of SCRUM sprints. More advanced features of the virtual scrumboard application include support for work estimates, reporting using burndown charts, export and analysis of tracking data, and concurrent access by multiple users. All articles assume basic knowledge of the SCRUM process and terminology. Some useful book recommendations and web resources related to SCRUM are included for your reference.

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The application offers a web-based equivalent of a SCRUM task board (SCRUM board). SCRUM task board is one of the most commonly used tools for planning, management, and tracking of SCRUM projects. SCRUM task boards have many forms. Frequently used are white boards with sticky notes that can be written on and moved around the white board. The key advantages of task boards are simplicity, improving communication saturation in the team by encouraging face to face team collaboration, and low maintenance cost. These advantages align well with the SCRUM principle of prioritizing people and team collaboration before processes and tools.

While physical task boards are sufficient in many SCRUM projects, they may have disadvantages. Physical scrumboards do not work well when the team is distributed and not all team members can participate in a daily SCRUM meeting in person. Physical scrumboards rely on a permanent place for a daily meeting, which is not possible or practical in some projects or workplace situations. Physical scrumboards also require additional manual work related to reporting and analyzing the data to support tracking and management decisions.

Online scrumboard application at TangyOrange solves the problems physical task boards have:

• Web browser access allows distributed team members equal access to the scrumboard without requiring installation of specialized software.
• Concurrent access by multiple users helps distributed teams achieve similar team dynamics and communication level that normally occurs during daily scrumboard meetings for colocated teams. Concurrent users of the web application can see changes made by each other without refreshing their browser windows.
• Burndown charts are automatically computed based on scrumboard data and save time spent on post processing data from physical task boards.
• Scrumboard data export facilitates data analysis and custom reporting in a spreadsheet application, e.g. Microsoft Excel.
• Configurable size allows scrumboard size to be adjusted to the needs of the sprint.

The application works on Windows and Mac OS and requires Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari with Microsoft Silverlight web browser plugin installed.

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