What is iceScrum and its benefits ?

IceScrum

• Web-based Agile tool.
• Hard from the beginning, but it has nice features set and can be adopted by agile team
• One of the best open source agile project management software
• IceScrum web site: www.icescrum.org

Advantages

 1. Responsive UI

 2. Good charts : Parking Lot, Burn Down Chart

 3. Good Pojects/Releases/Sprints concept support

 4. Drag and Drop for Task Board and Estimation

 5. Release/Sprints Timeline

Disadvantages

 1. Usability problems

 2. Forceful way to do things

 3. Works for small teams only

Benefits

Scrum

iceScrum is designed for Scrum, the most popular agile method.

It has been built around the Scrum pillars : Backlog, Sprint, ScrumMaster and Product Owner and teams.

Agile

Beyond Scrum, iceScrum eases the team’s transition towards agility.

It helps implementing the key agile practices: vision, features, user stories, effort estimation with Planning Poker, task board etc.

Open Source

iceScrum is free and Open Source software.

Distributed Teams

iceScrum is a web application and perfectly suits the needs of geographically-distributed agile teams.

Visual Management

By using virtual sticky notes, iceScrum facilitates agility.

Thus, iceScrum fosters visual management.