Scrumy is a very simple web app that enables you to easily track projects using the Scrum development model. For those new to Scrum development, Scrum basically consists of creating “stories” which are a simple sentence or two about the project. An example of a story might be “Make a way for a user to search by first name.” Tasks are then assigned to the story which detail the actual work that will need to be done to accomplish the story. Each task is assigned to a member of your dev team. Scrum also utilizes (usually daily) standup meetings where the status of stories and tasks is reviewed.
There are many tracking tools out there that development teams use to track their Scrum. The company I work for uses JIRA. I was excited to check out Scrumy to see what the “web 2.0″ field had to offer in Scrum tracking.
Innovative
The first thing you’ll notice about scrumy is their innovative form-less approach to account creation. Creating an account is as easy as typing your project name into the address bar. I’ll talk later about a couple problems with this, but overall I really liked this technique. I haven’t seen anyone use this method of account creation and appreciate the new idea.
If you aren’t feeling creative you can click “I’m feeling scrumy” which will create a project for you with a random name. You can also click “generate random project name” which will show you various random project names on the home page before actually creating one.
Tutorial
Once you create a new project, Scrumy gives you a very detailed walk through tutorial of how it works. I loved this part of the app. It only takes a minute or 2 to get a good grasp of how the app works.
Simplicity
Scrumy is extremely intuitive and simple to use. You create stories, add tasks to those stories, and simply drag those tasks into the different status boxes as the they progress. It’s timeline based with tasks progressing to the right towards completion. This makes it very easy to see where a task is in the development process.
The whole Srumy layout is very clean and easy to read which makes it perfect for looking over during Scrum meetings or reviewing quickly before meeting with a client.
Color-coding
One very cool feature of scrumy is task color-coding. As you assign tasks to a member of your team, Scrumy color codes that task. Any other tasks assigned to the same team member automatically receive the same color coding. This makes it very easy to see all your personal tasks at a glance.
Password Protection
This is the only downside to the simple account creation model that Scrumy has created and really the only downside to the app in general that I can see. Password protection is not included in the free version of Scrumy. Thus if you create an account , and someone else tries to create an account with the same name they will instead be directed to your account where they are free to make changes or wreak havoc. The chances of this could be somewhat lessened by creating a less common account name (i.e. adding some numbers to the end etc.). You can also shell out some cash for a “Pro” account that comes with password protection.
Upgrading
Upgrading to Scrumy Pro costs $7 per month or $60 per year and adds password protection, project history, future projects, sprint goal charts, and ability to change the name of your project.
Conclusion
All in all I was very impressed with Scrumy.com and may start to use it for some of my side projects. I was a little disappointed that password protection only came in the pay version of the product since there are other project management apps online (basecamp etc.) which include that in their free version. I can’t fault Scrumy for trying to make some cash off their product though and they have definitely created a top grade simple-to-use app that will make managing your scrum (or any) team projects easier.
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