In most companies I work within now there is a need to deliver projects in an Agile fashion, yet the scrum teams are offshore and in different sites. We then resort to using task tracking tools such as sharepoint or resource tools with a scrum attachment, and recently using a product called mingle we found that we lost nearly 30 hours a week from my scrum teams and scrummasters in maintaining tasks.

Then Scrumwise caught my eye and I created a user and put together a simple backlog with some key stories and tasks and exposed it to a scrum team already struggling with using kanban boards.

Its gone down a treat and is really easy to use, update and put on a very large screen even touch screen. I totally recommend it and wish I we'd developed it ourselves. The pricing looks interesting at $6 a user per month.

So a typical 8 week release in four sprints with a team of 6 and a scrummaster will cost $84. This in comparison with the time to set up an open source tool on a unused server somewhere, is handsome. Obviously the flash issue may arise in banking environments.Take a look www.scrumwise.com

Error. The expression contains a function that cannot operate on a set with more than 4,294,967,296 tuples.

This was a new one for me, as I understand this means that the MDX query I was running was trying to display more than 42 billion results on either the column or rows. The MDX query is being run against a large OLAP database of 8 million more or so customers so I would have expected this error if I’d pulled through the customer account number or something but of course you don’t get an error doing that.