ORGANIZATIONS
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Getting started
Learn how you can sign up for a VivifyScrum profile and start off on your Scrum project management journey as early as right now.
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My Organizations
Project management is more than moving tasks from ToDo to Done. Manage all aspects of your work in VivifyScrum. Start by creating your organization and adding different projects and collaboration boards within it.
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My Boards
The Boards page is a starting point of your work within an Organization. Find and organize all your Kanban and Scrum boards. Find out where you have active Scrum sprints. Use drag-and-drop to better reorganize your boards.
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Organization Configuration
Configure your organization to be a virtual lookalike of your real-life business. Find all about customizing your Organization, transferring the ownership and archiving it.
PROJECTS
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Projects
Connect all Boards where you track your work to relevant Projects, learn how to add Team Members and their Engagements on projects in your Organization.
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Project Calendar
Visualize your Organization members' engagements with VivifyScrum Project Calendar. See immediately who works on what project and during which time period.
BOARDS
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Scrum Board
Create your Scrum Board - the easiest way to start your project. A Board represents a project or anything else that you are working on. Build your product backlog, organize sprints and invite others to collaborate with them, and more on your scrum boards.
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Kanban Board
If you prefer Kanban to Scrum or if you like to keep some or all of your work organized kanban-style, VivifyScrum provides you with an ability to build customizable Kanban Boards as well. You can even import projects from Trello and Pivotal Tracker.
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Board Configuration
Choose between scrum vs kanban boards and customize them so that they best suit your needs. Set default items and assignees; use item progress bars and estimations; define workdays and effort units. Take advantage of external integrations.
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Board History
Access Board History to find out what different team members did with various items on any given day. This option is perfect for users who are responsible for large projects with many items and team members contributing to them.
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Product Backlog
A good Product Backlog is the cornerstone of every successful project undertaken within the scrum framework. This is why VivifyScrum provides users with great visibility of their product backlogs and easy ways to modify them to achieve best value.
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Sprint Backlog
Sprint Backlog is the backbone of efficient scrum sprints, outlining the items that will become part of active sprints. Use the sprint backlog to organize your sprints, keep track of them and analyze your teams' performance during any given sprint.
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Product Backlog Item
A Product Backlog Item is anything that brings the project closer to completion. In VivifyScrum, users are given numerous ways to customize product backlog items and use them to organize their workflow. Use Details for added customization of your items.
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Item Details
Use Details to add an unprecedented level of customization to your product backlog items. Choose between 6 PBI types, add performers, labels and estimations to ensure the best possible organization of work.
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Work Log
The Work Log feature provides more transparency and precision to the work being done on a product backlog item. It is a great tool for analyzing how correct estimations are.
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Item hierarchy
Bring another layer of organization and prioritization by breaking product backlog items into subitems and defining relations between parent items and subitems.
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Labels page - Epics
The Labels Page is a great tool that helps organize boards and workflow based on the labels that were assigned to different product backlog items. Labels can now also be used to create Epics - large bodies of work that require multiple scrum sprints.
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Files
In the Files section, users can find and attach any and all files that are associated with the item being worked on. For easier organization, each board also has its own folder with files pertaining to items from that board.
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Events
The Scrum and Kanban Events feature enables users to schedule various events such as scrum review, scrum retrospective or daily scrum. With this option, you can also set due date and time for assignments.
STATS AND REPORTS
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Burndown chart
VivifyScrum features a number of charts that can be used to keep the statistics on active sprints, including the Burndown Chart. You will also find worklog charts, type statistics and countdown here.
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Statistics
When you access Stats, you will find various scrum metrics telling you how your sprints are going and how your teams are performing. You can check total stats, as well as stats per user here.
INVOICING
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Invoicing
Create invoices for products or services you provide to your Clients and send them directly from VivifyScrum. Find out all about creating invoice templates and tracking payments.
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Clients
An easy way to create your client base. Find out how to add business partners and companies your Organization collaborates with as Clients in VivifyScrum.
TEAM MANAGEMENT
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Team Management
Team Management feature lets you get an instant insight into all team members you work with across different projects and their availability. VivifyScrum makes it possible to add all about your team members from LinkedIn profile to vacation dates.
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Permission Sets
Learn how to create custom permission sets for members of your Organization.
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Roles
Roles in VivifyScrum differ somewhat from the traditional scrum roles. The five different levels of privileges are granted to individual team members depending on the ways in which they will be allowed to use a Board and features in VivifyScrum.
TIME MANAGEMENT
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Time Tracker
VivifyScrum Time Tracker automatically creates a worklog for the item you are working on. Available as a Chrome extension for the web app and as a desktop app for MacOS, Linux and Windows platform.
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Worklogs page
Get an insight into all worklogs created within an Organization or a Board. Easily analyze how you and your team manage time. Generate invoices and reports based on the time logged.
INTEGRATIONS
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Slack integration
VivifyScrum has an external integration with Slack, probably the most popular collaboration tool today. If you have multiple boards, all of them can be integrated with a different channel.
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GitHub integration
Find out how you can integrate VivifyScrum with GitHub and connect your repository with the tool and link your commits to items you are working on.
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Bitbucket integration
If you have a repository on BitBucket, you will be glad to hear that VivifyScrum also features a BitBucket Integration. This way, you do not have to juggle between your project management tool and your Bitbucket repositories.
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GitLab integration
VivifyScrum features a GitLab integration that links items you are working on with your repositories on GitLab, streamlining the process and making your work more efficient. Find out how to integrate VivifyScrum with GitLab.
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Continuous integration
Continuous Integration is crucial for agile software development which is why VivifyScrum integrates painlessly with Travis CI, Semaphore CI and GitLab CI. Find out how to do it.
EXTRAS
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Data Management - GDPR
Make your business compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation by using VivifyScrum. Coming soon.
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Planning Poker
VivifyScrum boasts the Planning Poker feature which is used for democratic estimates of backlog items. This is perfect for items that teams cannot agree on when it comes to estimating effort it will take to complete them.
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API
Interact with VivifyScrum remotely whether you need to manage items or to export your Boards and Sprints. Get documentation and examples of working with VivifyScrum API.
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Shortcuts
VivifyScrum is all about making work easier and more efficient. To that end, we have included a number of keyboard shortcuts that you can use to access various options and features quickly and easily.
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Search
The Search and Filter options help users find items more easily and access them more quickly. Items can be filtered by assignees, reviewers, types and labels.
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My Assignments
My Assignments gives you an overview of all the items you are working on or are assigned to as a reviewer. A great feature for prioritizing and organizing your daily tasks.
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My History
Use My History to find all of your activities on all the boards you are a member of. Filter your activities and gain easy access to product backlogs.
SETTINGS
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Profile Settings
Check out your Profile settings to personalize your account and choose the theme for your VivifyScrum experience.
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Notifications
Notifications are updates about activities in VivifyScrum. Read more about choosing what you are notified about and how you are notified.
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Billing
VivifyScrum app's Billing feature allows you to check your plan from within the app itself (Free or Premium). You can also check users you collaborate with on different boards as well as your invoices.
FAQ
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Premium Pricing FAQ
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the VivifyScrum pricing model and about the Premium accounts.
