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Updated Wiki: Home

seanjenkin — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:19:59 GMT

As you can probably tell, this project hasn't had any support for a few years and it's not really working against the latest browsers, DBs, etc. If anyone has interest in taking it over, updating it, etc., please let me know and I'll add you to the project. ***

Tackle
Tackle is a web-based scrum tracking site the provides a rich set of features to help manage small and large teams through their cycle of scrum-based sprints. It is built using ASP.Net and SQL Server.

Some of the features include:

Multiple scrum team management in single site.
Multiple product backlogs per scrum team.
Windows Authentication for secure lockdown of backlogs.
Multiple prioritization methods for product backlogs.
Auto-generation of sprint backlog based on product backlog prioritization.
Management of resources per sprint including OOF and buffers.
Multiple reports including sprint totals, sprint tasks per product or owner, burn down graphs, status reports, work per day reports, cross-scrum team reports, and sprint review documents.
Sprint retrospective note tracking.
Personal status report tracking.
Full help and tutorials available directly from the web site.
Source code automatically installed with the web files and database scripts for further customization.

To view screenshots, please see the Screenshot section. For more information on Tackle please visit the FAQ page. Support requests and questions should be posted in the forums.

Thanks,
Tackle Development Team
Microsoft Game Studios – Tools and Technology Team.

UPDATED WIKI: FAQ

annasw — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 22:12:56 GMT

FAQ Page Coming Soon...

UPDATED WIKI: scrum

annasw — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:13:01 GMT

The following description is taken from the Wikipedia page on Scrum. More information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum

Scrum is a lightweight agile method for software development. Scrum is named after the Scrum in rugby, which is a way to restart the game after an accidental infringement. This entry describes the software development part of Scrum. This means that subjects like Scrum project planning, time/costs/risk management will not be explained in this entry.

Scrum was first applied in 1993 at Easel Corporation by Jeff Sutherland, John Scumniotales and Jeff McKenna when building an object-oriented design and analysis (OOAD) tool incorporating Round-trip engineering. At that time they needed a development method that had rapid application development and where product requirements could easily be translated into working code. These principles later became some of the basics of Scrum.

Some companies that applied variants of the Scrum approach for their projects are Fuji-Xerox, Canon, Honda, NEC, Epson, Brother, 3M, Xerox and Hewlett-Packard. These projects were observed and the results were published by Takeuchi and Nonaka in the Harvard Business review as “The New New Product Development Game” (January-February 1986).

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshot

annasw — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:08:52 GMT

Below are screenshots from the Tackle user interface:

The Tackle Welcome Page

Product Backlog Entry Per Product
Notice that there is a list of products and each product has it's own priority list.

Master Backlog
Intertwines all the product backlogs into a single master backlog for prioritization. Notice the automatic calculation of what work fits in a sprint.

Reports Per User, Per Product or By Remaining Work
After generating a sprint (using a wizard), users can get their tasks for the sprint.

Daily Scrum Entry
Enter your time daily into the sprint backlog.

Burn Down Graphs
Automatically generated from daily scrum entries.

Track and Report on Work Per Day

Weekly Status
Uses client-side SQL Reporting Services.

Customer and Partner Reports
Cross scrum team report generation on a studio or product level basis.

Easy Wrap up of a Sprint
Quickly mark all product backlog items in one place.

Sprint Review Documents
Automatically Generated.

Security
Lock down the users and roles per scrum team.

Multiple Scrum Teams
Multiple scrum teams can be hosted on the same site. Also note that scrum teams can share product backlogs.

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshot

annasw — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:06:32 GMT

Below are screenshots from the Tackle user interface:

The Tackle Welcome Page

Product Backlog Entry Per Product
Notice that there is a list of products and each product has it's own priority list.

Master Backlog
Intertwines all the product backlogs into a single master backlog for prioritization. Notice the automatic calculation of what work fits in a sprint.

Reports Per User, Per Product or By Remaining Work
After generating a sprint (using a wizard), users can get their tasks for the sprint.

Daily Scrum Entry
Enter your time daily into the sprint backlog.

Burn Down Graphs
Automatically generated from daily scrum entries.

Track and Report on Work Per Day

Weekly Status
Uses client-side SQL Reporting Services.

Customer and Partner Reports
Cross scrum team report generation on a studio or product level basis.

Easy Wrap up of a Sprint
Quickly mark all product backlog items in one place.
Coming Soon!

Sprint Review Documents
Automatically Generated.

Security
Lock down the users and roles per scrum team.

Multiple Scrum Teams
Multiple scrum teams can be hosted on the same site. Also note that scrum teams can share product backlogs.

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshot

annasw — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:28:10 GMT

Below are screenshots from the Tackle user interface:

The Tackle Welcome Page

Product Backlog Entry Per Product
Notice that there is a list of products and each product has it's own priority list.

Master Backlog
Intertwines all the product backlogs into a single master backlog for prioritization. Notice the automatic calculation of what work fits in a sprint.

Reports Per User, Per Product or By Remaining Work
After generating a sprint (using a wizard), users can get their tasks for the sprint.
Coming Soon!

Daily Scrum Entry
Enter your time daily into the sprint backlog.
Coming Soon!

Burn Down Graphs
Automatically generated from daily scrum entries.
Coming Soon!

Track and Report on Work Per Day
Coming Soon!

Weekly Status
Uses client-side SQL Reporting Services.
Coming Soon!

Customer and Partner Reports
Cross scrum team report generation on a studio or product level basis.
Coming Soon!

Easy Wrap up of a Sprint
Quickly mark all product backlog items in one place.
Coming Soon!

Sprint Review Documents
Automatically Generated.
Coming Soon!

Security
Lock down the users and roles per scrum team.
Coming Soon!

Multiple Scrum Teams
Multiple scrum teams can be hosted on the same site. Also note that scrum teams can share product backlogs.
Coming Soon!

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshot

annasw — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:27:41 GMT

Below are screenshots from the Tackle user interface:

The Tackle Welcome Page
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Product Backlog Entry Per Product
Notice that there is a list of products and each product has it's own priority list.
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Master Backlog
Intertwines all the product backlogs into a single master backlog for prioritization. Notice the automatic calculation of what work fits in a sprint.
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Reports Per User, Per Product or By Remaining Work
After generating a sprint (using a wizard), users can get their tasks for the sprint.
Coming Soon!

Daily Scrum Entry
Enter your time daily into the sprint backlog.
Coming Soon!

Burn Down Graphs
Automatically generated from daily scrum entries.
Coming Soon!

Track and Report on Work Per Day
Coming Soon!

Weekly Status
Uses client-side SQL Reporting Services.
Coming Soon!

Customer and Partner Reports
Cross scrum team report generation on a studio or product level basis.
Coming Soon!

Easy Wrap up of a Sprint
Quickly mark all product backlog items in one place.
Coming Soon!

Sprint Review Documents
Automatically Generated.
Coming Soon!

Security
Lock down the users and roles per scrum team.
Coming Soon!

Multiple Scrum Teams
Multiple scrum teams can be hosted on the same site. Also note that scrum teams can share product backlogs.
Coming Soon!

UPDATED WIKI: Home

annasw — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:04:36 GMT

Multiple scrum team management in single site.
Multiple product backlogs per scrum team.
Windows Authentication for secure lockdown of backlogs.
Multiple prioritization methods for product backlogs.
Auto-generation of sprint backlog based on product backlog prioritization.
Management of resources per sprint including OOF and buffers.
Multiple reports including sprint totals, sprint tasks per product or owner, burn down graphs, status reports, work per day reports, cross-scrum team reports, and sprint review documents.
Sprint retrospective note tracking.
Personal status report tracking.
Full help and tutorials available directly from the web site.
Source code automatically installed with the web files and database scripts for further customization.

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshot

annasw — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:28:32 GMT

Below are screenshots from the Tackle user interface:

The Tackle Welcome Page
Coming Soon!

Product Backlog Entry Per Product
Notice that there is a list of products and each product has it's own priority list.
Coming Soon!

Master Backlog
Intertwines all the product backlogs into a single master backlog for prioritization. Notice the automatic calculation of what work fits in a sprint.
Coming Soon!

Reports Per User, Per Product or By Remaining Work
After generating a sprint (using a wizard), users can get their tasks for the sprint.
Coming Soon!

Daily Scrum Entry
Enter your time daily into the sprint backlog.
Coming Soon!

Burn Down Graphs
Automatically generated from daily scrum entries.
Coming Soon!

Track and Report on Work Per Day
Coming Soon!

Weekly Status
Uses client-side SQL Reporting Services.
Coming Soon!

Customer and Partner Reports
Cross scrum team report generation on a studio or product level basis.
Coming Soon!

Easy Wrap up of a Sprint
Quickly mark all product backlog items in one place.
Coming Soon!

Sprint Review Documents
Automatically Generated.
Coming Soon!

Security
Lock down the users and roles per scrum team.
Coming Soon!

Multiple Scrum Teams
Multiple scrum teams can be hosted on the same site. Also note that scrum teams can share product backlogs.
Coming Soon!

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshot

annasw — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:28:14 GMT

Below are screenshots from the Tackle user interface:

The Tackle Welcome Page
Coming Soon!

Product Backlog Entry Per Product
Notice that there is a list of products and each product has it's own priority list.
Coming Soon!

Master Backlog
Intertwines all the product backlogs into a single master backlog for prioritization. Notice the automatic calculation of what work fits in a sprint.
Coming Soon!

Reports Per User, Per Product or By Remaining Work
After generating a sprint (using a wizard), users can get their tasks for the sprint.
Coming Soon!

Daily Scrum Entry
Enter your time daily into the sprint backlog.
Coming Soon!

Burn Down Graphs
Automatically generated from daily scrum entries.
Coming Soon!

Track and Report on Work Per Day
Coming Soon!

Weekly Status
Uses client-side SQL Reporting Services.
Coming Soon!

Customer and Partner Reports
Cross scrum team report generation on a studio or product level basis.
Coming Soon!

Easy Wrap up of a Sprint
Quickly mark all product backlog items in one place.
Coming Soon!

Sprint Review Documents
Automatically Generated.
Coming Soon!

Security
Lock down the users and roles per scrum team.
Coming Soon!

Multiple Scrum Teams
Multiple scrum teams can be hosted on the same site. Also note that scrum teams can share product backlogs.
Coming Soon!

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshot

annasw — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:22:31 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Screenshot

annasw — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:15:12 GMT

Below are screenshots from the Tackle user interface:

UPDATED WIKI: Home

annasw — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 21:12:55 GMT