Using Board Manager for SCRUM

[dwalby]

Hi all,

I have a colleague who is currently in the process of identifying a tool for Agile/Scrum activity and has (so far) started looking at both Trello and Hornbill Board Manager. Does anyone else use the tool in this way? What are your thoughts/feedback?

My preference is to use Hornbill in order to benefit from the integration with requests, projects, etc. 

Thanks in advance

 

[TrevorHarris]

Hi @dwalby

Oddly enough I've just added a screenshot of an example Scrum sprint board to the Boardmanager store page today so this usage is definitely in our minds 

One of the upcoming features we're hoping to add is the ability to set values (eg story points) against cards which would help support the use of Boardmanager for scrum. I don't have a timescale for the release of this yet but hopefully will be available soon.  My example Scrum board is below if it helps.

Thanks

Trevor

 

[Daniel Dekel]

Hi @dwalby,

Based on my personal experience in Hornbill, we used to use Trello and needed a way of linking Requests to a board as well as see the status of the request in the card. At the beginning we did that twice; updated the request and then updated the card on the board. After that we started to create scripts to integrate Trello with Service Manager but that was quite complicated.

Then we decided to develop our own board for Service Manager and abandoned Trello. That way we had all in sync, a big step through!

Now we have Board Manager app. We can not only have Requests but also other objects like emails, tasks and simple cards.

You can limit the amount of cards in one lane, so for example you have a team of 5 people and you know that people should not work on more than one story at a time. So, you can limit it to 5 cards.

You can also add and move cards based on BPM flow. There are many more useful features so you can already use it as a scrum board.

And, as @trevorharris mentioned, we are looking to make it even better for Scrum specific features.

So it can only get better ;-)

Daniel.

[dwalby]

@TrevorHarris @Daniel Dekel - Hi both, have there been any further developments on the features mentioned here?

[Daniel Dekel]

@dwalby, if you are referring to the points per card, no, is not ready yet. Unfortunately I can't tell you yet when this will be ready as we have still some higher priorities. But we'll keep you updated when we have news about this.

Daniel.

[grahambird80]

Hello @Daniel Dekel

Did this go any further, we have a need in our business for a SCRUM style management system and rather than looking at a external service it would be good to have it in Hornbill.

Cheers,

Graham

[TrevorHarris]

Hi @grahambird80

This feature is still on our backlog but unfortunately we have not had time to implement it as of yet and still do not have a timescale of when it may be ready

Thanks

Trevor Harris

[grahambird80]

25 minutes ago, TrevorHarris said:

Hi @grahambird80

This feature is still on our backlog but unfortunately we have not had time to implement it as of yet and still do not have a timescale of when it may be ready

Thanks

Trevor Harris

Thanks for the info, will go with the external 3rd party solution for the time being

[TrevorHarris]

Hi @grahambird80

What requirements would you need from a SCRUM board extra to what is already available in BoardManager?  Its possible that we could add the ability to add a feature to add points to cards so you could size them, would this be another to use Boar Manager as a SCRUM tool for you?

Thanks

Trevor Harris