New software on the way

Hey again,

Its been too looooong since I last posted anything but anyways. I took on a new software idea about utilising software to manage Scrum process more better in distributed organisation. Its called ScrumFY, like Scrum For You :)

It will utilize heavily on audio and video on its functionality. This is important since in distributed organisations it is a big problem that daily Scrums are not face-to-face. A Scrum Master creates a new Daily Scrum and reviews the teams audio and video comments when they arrive.

The main reason I created this software is that I currently work at Nomovok Ltd. It has been really great place to work in (I work from home so of course it is). Nomovok has distributed organisation since majority of developers work from home, like me. I don't have any idea about Nomovok's use of Scrum, but this software ought to help them a lot on integrating Scrum in to their organisation (hopefully).

But back to ScrumFY. The main problems that arise in using audio and video in a software is the bandwidth and network management. This easily tackled with P2P, in which all participants will share all material with each other, so that it is easy to transfer audio and video automatically. Since live bittorrent streams are possible novadays, ScrumFY will integrate some kind of P2P streaming in it.

The problems on webcams are solved similarly like in MonoTooth. All platforms have their implementation of webcam interfaces so its just a matter of choosing a correct one at runtime. I also created ScrumFY as LGPL so that possible propietary webcam plugins can be created (sorry my open source friends :) ).

ScrumFY will also include similar features like in Pivotal Tracker (), like backlog and such things. Please view a demonstration of it :), its very cool.

ScrumFY will probably also include direct source code management as well, so that commits from Git or SVN can be directly linked to a specific backlog story item.

Any other ideas are of course welcome as well, I'll try to keep my blog updated on this :)

-Aleksi