http://scrumy.com<p>Scrumy is a simple tool for Scrum project management.<p>My partner in crime and I began working on Scrumy (our then side-project) full-time shortly after flying back from the final interviews for YC Summer '08 empty handed.<p>We'd love some feedback from you guys, especially if you're familiar with Scrum.<p>You can check out the Pro features at the "demo" project, http://scrumy.com/demo<p>Thanks!
This is a good startup idea. I used to work at a company that heavily misapplied Scrum[1], and they bent over backwards to spend as much money as possible on anything that said "Scrum" on it. Software, consultants, everything. Basically, this should be easy money for you :) The people doing Scrum right will also be happy to pay for software that makes it easier.<p>[1] (I loved the misapplication of Scrum. The Scrum book we were using had examples of things to <i>never</i> do, and that's exactly what we did. We actually had 8-hour sprint planning meetings every two weeks, in addition to an 8-hour "demo days" and "retrospectives"... leaving 7 days out of every 10 for actual work. Of course, those were cut into by other meetings like "architecture working sessions" and so on. In the end, nobody got anything done, so they added even more meetings to determine why that was the case. Around that point, I quit.)
Wow! This is unbelievably impressive. In terms of Scrum, can I assign points to my stories? and see an overview of my total points for a specific sprint?<p>Overall though, it really rocks. I will be using it for sure come Monday morning!
I absolutely love the promotional video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmZ5O5AJ2F4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmZ5O5AJ2F4</a><p>Great work, very simple and it works!
Did you check whether scrum-y.com was taken?<p>Maybe I just have a weird set of brain cells connected to my optic nerve, but I read that URL as being pronounced as "screw me dot com" .
Where's the burndown chart (or any task effort estimates at all)? Where do I maintain my product backlog? This tool feels more suited to something like XP or generic Agile than pure Scrum to me.<p>But that's the problem with project management tools: everyone's got a different mental model for organizing work and measuring output because nobody strictly follows all the practices of any one methodology to the letter ("Agile is empirical," after all). You adopt the practices that work for you and your team, which means you have to create your own project management tools adapted to that unique workflow (unless you're lucky enough to find the tools that someone else created meet your needs perfectly).<p>Otherwise, you're forced to adapt your workflow to the tools you choose.
Neat! Would be even neater if free for 1-user.<p>I did a quick search on Google for "scrum boards" and "virtual scrum boards" and found some similar, but maybe overly complicated and expensive, apps. Also found this <a href="http://code.google.com/p/scrumboard/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/scrumboard/</a>. Anyone try any of these?
The 121 seconds of my time would have been better spent showing me it in action instead of trying to instill that there's only one M in scrumy.com. I know that now, but I don't need to know it since I'm not planning on spending more time investigating it. I think that's a shame for the both of us.
It looked like a calender at first sight, but great job. Its simple to look at all info on one page to see which is to be done, verified etc. MAybe little bit more color differences would help. Like verification like in red or something, since somebody mostly would be waiting on it.
Amazing! I love the design and the sheer amount of info conveyed in a small space.<p>One bug in chrome (who cares yet, right?) but anyway: When typing into the task textbox, the centered text doesn't display correctly.
I spent 10 minutes sitting there generating names.<p>bucksaws12anthrax
highland56horsiest
imparts21biscuits
sourly95whole
cling33wombats<p>I got such a kick out of this, thanks! How do you generate these names?