Scrum is a lightweight software development methodology. Functionality is delivered in iterative cycles with short and immediate feedback. ScrumForce is a collaboration solution. It gives teams and their customers immediate and transparent visibility. ScrumForce’s hierarchical structure links sprints and stories. It tracks work, assignments and consolidation in one, comprehensive overview. The ScrumForce package offers End to End Scrum support for:
 

• Transparent scope management,
• Accurate planning based on real availability,
• Effortless Day to Day monitoring,
• Keep track of decisions on planning, scrum and retrospective meetings,
• Time saving auto-calculate features for planned work, actual work and velocity.

Features and Functions

• Supports Stories and Sprints
• Manage resource calendar and availability
• Organize Retrospective & Planning meetings
• Track Product Backlog
• Automatic Velocity calculation
   

The typical scrum whiteboard is present in TenForce as color coded stories that can be drag & dropped as work is progressing.



Other features supported are:
 

• Automatic sprint breakdown graph
• Integrated with time sheet to log actual time and update ETC
• Backlog, sprints, stories

Clear and comprehensive overview

The ScrumForce tabs give immediate access to sprints and their composing stories. Status reports give a one-click overview on what happened, what is planned and what is late.


 

Automatic Burn down calculations

Depending on the work completion, there is an up to the hour correct view of where the team is in terms of finished versus actual work. The available capacity is driven by the team resource calendar. The view below shows a series of sprint burn down graphs:


 

Full audit trailing

Each task/story/sprint editing is kept in a standard audit trail. This helps teams to find quickly the history of what happened.


 

Keep track of planned, actual effort and ETC

ScrumForce keeps track of 3 simple attributes:
 

• How much time is planned?
• How much time is already planned?
• How much time is required to complete?
   

These attributes are consolidated automatically from the individual task to the story level and up to the sprint level.