icescrum

The sprint plan is the team’s central element for sprint management. In iceScrum, tasks are represented by virtual post-its in 3 columns: todo, in progress, done. The possibility of moving a task around depends on your role. A previous article … Continue reading →

This version brings the following improvements: Acceptance tests, managed in the detailed story view and fully integrated (icon on post-its, link in quicklook, export) New languages: Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese (thanks to contributors) sprint stories can be printed to a post-it … Continue reading →

  When iceScrum is installed in Tomcat and the server is stopped, it is possible that the Java process keeps running, which prevents installing a new version of iceScrum. First the process must be killed (on Linux and Mac, with … Continue reading →

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With currently over 250 daily downloads, the potential number of world-wide iceScrum users is very large. Yet the nature of Open Source projects means that in fact we know very few of them, through the online forum (900 registered users), … Continue reading →

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iceScrum being first and foremost a tool for Scrum, it quite naturally includes the 3 major scrum players which are the Product Owner, the ScrumMaster and the team member, also called the developer. A development team therefore consists of developers … Continue reading →

The easiest way to a quick start with iceScrum is to install the bundle. Prerequisites Java Virtual Machine (JVM) 1.6 or greater : JDK installed, with variables JAVA_HOME or JAVA_JRE present and indicating the paths (to JDK for JAVA_HOME) Web … Continue reading →

Migration with PostgreSQL does not work. This has been corrected in R4#3.1 In the wizard, changing the role of the creator causes an error. This has been corrected in R4#3.1 When iceScrum is installed in Tomcat and the server is … Continue reading →

  Prerequisites JavaVirtual Machine (JVM) 1.6 or greater, Web application server Java compatible servlet 2.4. Web browser : InternetExplorer 7+, Firefox 3+, Safari 3+, Chrome Installation of a database is no longer necessary, iceScrum is now delivered with a HSQLDB … Continue reading →

We have published a new version, fixing 2 defects in the R4#3: Migration doesn’t work with PostgreSQL. In the project wizard, changing the role of the creator causes an error. If you downloaded the R4#3 version and are not affected … Continue reading →

iceScrum R4#3 comes with a few interesting innovations. Here is a summary: Comments on stories (visible in the Details view) are from now on saved in an export, so they are kept after an import. Activities on stories (addition, state … Continue reading →

This version R4#2 fixes bugs found in version R4#1 and adds a few improvements. Here they are in summary: Fixed bug preventing migration of R4 to PostgreSQL iceScrum now works with SQL server Fixed bug creating a task when Java … Continue reading →

This version R4#1 took a little longer to release than what we would have liked. Be that as it may, from now on we will be issuing more regular updates. Here is a summary of the major changes introduced in … Continue reading →

Scrum and Kanban, there are many ways to get the best of both. Here is another way, following on from the previous example using tasks. Take note, this is not Kanban, but ScrumBan. For whom ? This approach is aimed … Continue reading →

iceScrum was started a long time ago, long before there was any mention of Kanban in agile methodology. Scrum itself was still a recent term. When Grails migrated in 2010 we were already thinking about Kanban practices and how to … Continue reading →

[UPDATE] Due to an issue between our timezone management and the HSQLDB, the R3#10 has been updated to R3#10.1. Upgrade from R3#9 / R3#10 to R3#10.1 is strongly recommended for people using the default bundle. Also, if you use HSQLDB … Continue reading →

After several sprints devoted to plugins (to appear in a few weeks with the R4), and getting the new community site up and running, a new version of iceScrum -R3#9 -has just been published by the development team. It can … Continue reading →

With more and more followers, our site’s popularity is steadily growing, we have passed the 10,000 visits per month mark. And yet, not much has been published. Admittedly, the old site was a bit messy, it wasn’t easy to find … Continue reading →

Having just finished the last sprint, the team has just published a new version of iceScrum, the R3#8. It is available as a WAR or a bundle and has been put on our servers. What’s new in this R3#8 ? … Continue reading →