How to create a new scrum with Taiga for more agile project management

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If you're looking to instrumentality task absorption to much agile heights, you mightiness privation to see adding scrum into the mix. Jack Wallen shows you however to make a caller scrum with the Taiga platform.

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Like kanban, scrum is simply a instrumentality to assistance your concern go much agile. And wherever kanban is arsenic as businesslike arsenic it is simplistic, scrum offers a spot much complexity to assistance bring a level of agility to your projects you mightiness not different beryllium capable to achieve.

But what is scrum? Simply put, scrum is focused connected empowering teamwork connected precise analyzable projects. It's a GUI instrumentality that not lone helps visualize task advancement but empowers sprints and makes it easier for teams to woody with unpredictability and complexity.

There are many, galore platforms disposable to assistance you deploy a scrum. I'm going to show however to bash it with this a level that tin rapidly beryllium deployed with the assistance of Docker. You tin bash with either a hosted lawsuit of Taiga oregon 1 that is deployed wrong your information center.

With that said, let's get to work.

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What you'll request

To make a scrum, you'll request a moving lawsuit of Taiga and a idiosyncratic relationship with admin privileges. That's it. Let's bash this.

How to make a caller scrum with Taiga

The archetypal happening to bash is log into Taiga with your admin relationship (or an relationship with admin privileges). From the dashboard, hover your cursor implicit Projects successful the precocious near country and past click NEW PROJECT (Figure A)

Figure A

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Creating a caller task successful Taiga.

In the resulting model (Figure B), click SCRUM.

Figure B

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The types of projects you tin make with Taiga.

Give your caller scrum a sanction and statement (both of which are required), click PRIVATE PROJECT (unless this scrum should beryllium disposable to the public), and click CREATE PROJECT (Figure C).

Figure C

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Configuring your caller scrum connected Taiga.

Your scrum volition beryllium created and is acceptable to beryllium utilized (Figure D).

Figure D

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Our TechRepublic scrum has been created.

How to make your scrum squad successful Taiga

The archetypal happening you'll request to bash is make your scrum squad (because scrumming by yourself tin beryllium a precise lonely experience). To adhd squad members, click the Admin nexus successful the dashboard (associated with Customize your Backlog successful the main pane). In the resulting model (Figure E), click Members.

Figure E

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The Taiga scrum admin sheet is elemental to navigate.

Click NEW MEMBER and then, erstwhile prompted, benignant an email for the idiosyncratic to beryllium invited to the scrum. You'll past beryllium prompted to take the user's relation (from UX, Design, Front, Back, Product Owner, Stakeholder) and adhd a personalized connection to the invite. After you instrumentality attraction of that, click INVITE to send. 

At this point, you mightiness beryllium reasoning the database of pre-defined roles (UX, Design, Front, Back, Product Owner, Stakeholder) doesn't acceptable your project. Fortunately, Taiga makes it casual to adhd caller roles. For that, spell to Settings | Permissions and click NEW ROLE (Figure F).

Figure F

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Navigating done Settings to make caller roles.

Type the sanction of the caller relation and deed Enter connected your keyboard.

If you present spell backmost to creating a caller member, you should spot those caller roles listed successful the enactment drop-down (Figure G).

Figure G

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I've created roles to acceptable a publishing exemplary successful my scrum.

Once you've invited your team, you tin statesman your travel with scrum connected Taiga. Congratulations connected taking that archetypal measurement toward a much agile concern process.

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