ScrumDo App vs Refined! Scrum Agile

ScrumDo is capable of supporting any management process, from traditional project management methodologies to modern lean-agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) and others. That said, our support for defined process methods (traditional approaches) is not as robust, as we’re primarily focused on helping teams and organizations transition from these approaches to those emphasizing more empirical frameworks. In a word: superbly. ScrumDo’s portfolio capabilities inherently mirror the structure recommended under SAFe, and our set-up wizards can even do a lot of the initial heavy lifting for you. Schedule a consultation with one of our professional advisors to learn more about how ScrumDo can be customized to match your current and future practices. ScrumDo maintains a limited number of built-in integrations with other tools and platforms commonly used in the software development space. Users can develop their own custom integrations using our API. We strive for 100% availability and 100% security. While neither is ever possible, we take all reasonable efforts to achieve this goal. If you can’t find the answers you’re looking for at http://help.scrumdo.com

Refined! was designed to be simple yet functional. It is a software as a service and is subscription based. The idea is that a team member of a scrum team (product owner, scrum master, developer or even a manager) can have at their finger tips an easy way to add backlog items into a sprint, amend their refinement attributes, be assisted with their prioritization, track changes and report progress of each sprint through the relevant charts. Choose from a variety of prioritization methods, whether it is story points, priority ranking, Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF), MoSCoW (Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, Won't Have this time) and others. Keep track of the defects of each sprint, the team mood. View all metrics via several dynamic charts. There are other software out there, but iOS applications on Scrum and Agile have limited functionality, and whilst browser based systems are overly complicated and expensive. Also, most can only be used with internet access. Refined! stores information on the device and simultaneously syncs with your iCloud account when internet access is available. So you can continue the refinement even if your device is off the grid! Refined! is designed and built by Jim Kandias, a current agile coach and product owner with over 20 years of working in all aspects of software delivery. Traditional software development of course started off with the Waterfall model, these days he works almost exclusively with Scrum agile. He has delivered software for companies in Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. Due to the fact that he was a software engineer for many years, who progressed into a team leader, scrum master, a product owner and agile coach, he has has a deep undestanding of the software lifecycle and the different aspects of a sprint. Most of the terminology used here are part of the "Scrum.org" agile framework which he has studied. However, to cater a little for those of you using SaFe we have added "Weighted Shortest Job First" (WSJF)" as it is a useful prioritization technique which provides additional flexibility. Contact us with your suggestions and we will review and implement if it will benefit other Refined! users, thank you! The standard end-user license agreement (EULA) can be found at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/