Scrum Mate update - June 2021.
We’re super excited to announce a new, more modern look for Scrum Mate!
June 24, 2021
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News, tips and tricks about doing agile with Scrum Mate
Painless timesheet for agile teams
We know that timesheets are a headache for most creative agencies, so we developed an approach that helps organizations to achieve timesheet compliance while making work administration effortless for team members.
November 18, 2020
What makes a good product owner?
Unquestionably, being a product owner is a daunting role and mastering the profession requires well-developed abilities in many areas. As their role is fundamental for successful agile teams, we want to highlight five of the most important areas where a great product owner should excel in.
August 17, 2020
The Scrum Framework at a glance
A quick overview of the Scrum framework. A short introduction to the elements of Scrum with team roles, events, artifacts, and the theory behind it.
June 05, 2020
The agile model
What are the common aspects of agile methods used by successful organizations? We gathered the essential attributes into an agile model.
April 21, 2020
Tools for remote agile teams
As productivity tool developers, we are obsessed with great tools that help agile teams become more efficient. In this article, we collected the top 15 tools that help remote teams maintain a high-bandwidth communication and succeed with agility.
April 09, 2020
Be careful with agile tools! They can ruin agility.
Contrary to popular definitions, Agile is not a methodology, it is a culture. Implementing strict rules and complex tools will likely deter organizations from achieving agility.
December 11, 2019
GitHub integration
From now on, when you paste a URL of a GitHub issue, branch, commit or pull request, Scrum Mate will recognize a GitHub URL and turn it into an informative preview.
October 29, 2019
Professional services with an agile mindset
We have seen that it is possible to successfully embed an agile mindset into the relationship between the client and the solution provider. In fact, we are certain that adaptive, agile software development has the potential to deliver more value to the client than traditional, prescriptive models.
August 07, 2019
The Scrum Mate Model
Our goal in Scrum Mate is to provide a great tool both for product teams and teams working on multiple projects. We aim for our tool to benefit solution providers that manage and work for many clients, as well as agile business teams working on a variety of initiatives.
March 22, 2019
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Scrum Mate update - June 2021.
June 24, 2021
We’re super excited to announce a new, more modern look for Scrum Mate!
Painless timesheet for agile teams
November 18, 2020
We know that timesheets are a headache for most creative agencies, so we developed an approach that helps organizations to achieve timesheet compliance while making work administration effortless for team members.
What makes a good product owner?
August 17, 2020
Unquestionably, being a product owner is a daunting role and mastering the profession requires well-developed abilities in many areas. As their role is fundamental for successful agile teams, we want to highlight five of the most important areas where a great product owner should excel in.
The Scrum Framework at a glance
June 05, 2020
A quick overview of the Scrum framework. A short introduction to the elements of Scrum with team roles, events, artifacts, and the theory behind it.
The agile model
April 21, 2020
What are the common aspects of agile methods used by successful organizations? We gathered the essential attributes into an agile model.
Tools for remote agile teams
April 09, 2020
As productivity tool developers, we are obsessed with great tools that help agile teams become more efficient. In this article, we collected the top 15 tools that help remote teams maintain a high-bandwidth communication and succeed with agility.
Be careful with agile tools! They can ruin agility.
December 11, 2019
Contrary to popular definitions, Agile is not a methodology, it is a culture. Implementing strict rules and complex tools will likely deter organizations from achieving agility.
GitHub integration
October 29, 2019
From now on, when you paste a URL of a GitHub issue, branch, commit or pull request, Scrum Mate will recognize a GitHub URL and turn it into an informative preview.
Public API
September 27, 2019
We're happy to announce that the public beta of Scrum Mate's REST API is now available! The new API lets you integrate Scrum Mate with your existing tools and workflows.
Professional services with an agile mindset
August 07, 2019
We have seen that it is possible to successfully embed an agile mindset into the relationship between the client and the solution provider. In fact, we are certain that adaptive, agile software development has the potential to deliver more value to the client than traditional, prescriptive models.
2019 Summer Updates
July 24, 2019
From the beach to the sandbox, we've been working on improving Scrum Mate this summer and we added new features that we hope you will find handy. Let's catch up on the most recent improvements that we've included!
The Scrum Mate Model
March 22, 2019
Our goal in Scrum Mate is to provide a great tool both for product teams and teams working on multiple projects. We aim for our tool to benefit solution providers that manage and work for many clients, as well as agile business teams working on a variety of initiatives.
Import Boards from Trello to Scrum Mate
January 19, 2017
Trello is a great productivity software, and an etalon for many board based project management tools. Since Trello is a universal task management application, it has many limitations when used by Scrum and Kanban teams. Scrum Mate offers an easy way to import your...
The difference between task and user story
September 20, 2016
The key to productive work is not working on more tasks, but selecting the right ones. The question is, how do we recognize the most appropriate tasks? Let's have a look at how we can achieve this. Understand the outcome first The best task to work on is the one that...
Velocity report in Scrum Mate
January 06, 2016
Since Scrum Mate doesn't restrict you to choose between Scrum or Kanban, the velocity report combines the Scrum Sprint Velocity and Kanban throughput concept. This is the Delivery rate report. The delivery rate report shows your projects average weekly delivery rate...
Underperforming Scrum Team?
September 01, 2015
A method to improve an underperforming scrum team Many teams suffer from leaving some unfinished user stories at the end of a Sprint. Why does it happen so often, even when the team has made a conservative commitment? Most often, the root cause of this problem is the...