JAST Another Scrum Tool Portable

JAST Another Scrum is a feature-rich software application that provides you with tools necessary to manage product backlogs within a Scrum team. It comes loaded with many useful options and customization preferences that you can take advantage of.

There is no setup kit involved, which makes JAST Another Scrum portable. It means that you can save the tool to USB flash drive and directly launch it on the PC, as long as it has Java installed. What's more, it does not modify Windows registry settings, unlike most installers.

The GUI is simple to navigate. You can start a new project by specifying general properties pertaining to the title, product owner and estimation unit. You can enable automatic updates and apply the MuSCoW model (Must Should Could Won't) for prioritization.

It is also possible to set the budget, currency, category and cost, as well as to create the list with team members. You can check out the product backlog, get an overview on the current task, specify any impediments that can be resolved, as well as create sprints for tasks with the highest priority and view them in a pinboard.

JAST Another Scrum also lets you view planning details in a Gantt chart, weekly report and appointments, put together a list with releases, as well as generate diagrams with the product burndown, costs, sprint overview or velocity, member sprint velocity, and epic charts (completed time, original duration, current remaining time).

Product backlog reports can be generated and exported to PDF format. Moreover, you can store the product in a database, update existing ones, download or remove them, and generate the schema of the database and save it to file. LaTeX is supported.

There were no stability issues in our tests, since JAST Another Scrum did not hang, crash or pop up error messages. It ran on low CPU and RAM, so it shouldn't hog system resources. It seems that this application comes bundled with a lot of handy features for creating and managing product backlogs within a Scrum team, and it should be useful for all project managers.