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QuantifyIceScrum is an J2EE application for using Scrum while keeping the spirit of a collaborative workspace. It also offers virtual boards with post-its for sprint backlog, product backlog and others.
The tool offers everything that is in Scrum :
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The role management: Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Team member and StakeHolder
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The product backlog management with advanced features for prioritizing stories
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Scrum lifecycle including a roadmap view
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Release planning
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Sprint backlog, as a task board facilitating the Scrum ceremonial
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Management of impediments
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Chart production such as burndown charts, velocity charts, cumulative flow diagram
Icescrum offers others agile practices like :
- Roadmap
- Vision
- Features
- User stories
- Acceptance tests associated to stories
- User roles
- Planning poker
IceScrum is an agile management tool created by french students. IceScrum is a WebApplication that runs under a Tomcat server using a MYSql Database with GPL License. The tool is focused on Scrum only and brings basic functionalities to manage Scrum teams but with an original user interface.
Getting Started
The first you need to do is to create your project and you can choose between two estimation scales, the more popular fibonacci-like and the naturals scale that goes from 0 to 99. I think that the natural scale can make the team loose to much time trying to achieve a false sense of precision, falling on endless discussions if a backlog item’s size is 63 or 64, but the choice is yours. Then we’re taken to the main project screen and we can start creating releases, stories, sprints, etc. But not every user can perform every task, it will depends on each role on the project, Scrum Master, Product Owner, etc. This is a good thing but you can’t configure what each role can do, it’s pre- configured and we can’t change, on the good side it prevents people from doing crazy config. choices but it force the team to fit the tool and not otherwise, we can create custom roles but that’s not ideal.
