Axosoft Knows Scrum

At Axosoft, we take Agile development with Scrum seriously. That's why our Head of Software Engineering, our QA & Testing Lead, and our Head of Training are all certified Scrum Masters.

We've also created the world's most popular video introduction to the scrum methodology:

OnTime provides support for Release Management, Product Backlogs, Sprints, Burn-down charts and Treemaps. More importantly, OnTime allows teams to breeze through sprint-planning sessions as well as daily standup meetings.

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http://www.axosoft.com/ontime/videos/scrum

Product Backlog

OnTime excels at tracking everything in a hierarchical, logical, easy-to-find-and-follow kind of way. And, this certainly applies to your Product Backlog.

User Stories are organized into projects and sub-projects, and then you can easily drag-and-drop those items into sprints and releases.

With the flexibility of the OnTime UI, you can group your backlog by assignee, priority, status, due date, release or any other field that makes sense.

And, with custom fields, you can add any field that makes sense for your product - for example, hardware device, operating system, requested by, etc.

Sprint & Release Management

An essential component of the Scrum methodology is to clearly identify which User Stories (or features) are associated with each sprint...clearly indicating what your team has to work on and get done.

With OnTime, you can easily manage sprints by release (version), product or both. Sprint durations can be automatically calculated and burndowns charts can be viewed by sprint or even rolled up to the release or product levels.

Managing your sprints and releases in OnTime makes it exceptionally easy to visualize and share the information.

Burndown Charts

Another pillar of the Scrum methodology is burndown charts. Yet, many teams do without them, because they are difficult or time consuming to generate.

With OnTime, you and your team will constantly have access to the most up-to-date burndown charts.

That's huge! At any given time, you can see your team's progress, how much work is left, the actual due date and the projected due date based on the team's current velocity.

In OnTime, Burndown charts are automatically generated based on original estimates, work completed, and updated estimates.

Scrum / Agile Terminology

When you're a Scrum team, you have a certain language that you speak with others on your team. Your tools should reflect that language.

With OnTime, when you change the terminology somewhere in the application, that language propogates throughout. So, if you change 'Features' to 'User Stories' in one place, all mentions of 'Features' in the UI will be changed to 'User Stories,' too.