Free Online Scrum Tools

Backlog, Sprint Board, User Stories

Agile approaches like Scrum recommend a “just enough” attitude in software development and this is also the case when you discuss tools. Ideally, you would work with a small team that is collocated, but this is not always possible and you might be running your project virtually with a distributed Scrum team scattered around the world.

If you don’t want to start using a sophisticated tool to manage your efforts, you might be interested in adopting some web tools that will fit your particular need to share some project information or status among all the team members. This article presents some online tools that are based on Scrum and Agile approaches, that implement specific Agile practices (backlog management, burndown chart) and that are freely available (no commercial/paid version!) on the web for distributed Scrum teams. Retrospective tools are not mentioned in this article, as we wrote a specific article about free retrospective tools for distributed scrum teams. The open source Scrum planning poker tools have been listed in a separate article like Open Source Planning Poker Tools.

We will not present in this page the free option offered by commercial Scrum tools vendors, neither some free offer from tools that are still in their beta stage. You will find only Agile tools with no commercial option that are completely free (and supposed to stay so forever). If you want to add a free online Scrum tool to this page, just let us know using the comment form or the contact page.

Updates
* June 2022
Added: Hewlett Packard Yoda, ScrumFast
Removed: APA, Print Your Burn Down Chart, PrintYourBurndown.com, Simple Burndown Chart Generator, TaskJunction (no longer available), ScrumVee (started commercial offering)
* September 2020
Added: BurndownChart.fr, PrintYourBurndown.com
* May 2019
Added: MeuScrum, Simple Burndown Chart Generator
Removed: ScrumTool.me (no longer available)
* June 2018
Added: Apa, Scrumvee, easyBacklog, Print Your Burn Down Chart, Yet Another Burndown Generator
Removed: SeeNowDo, Online Burndown Chart (burndownchart.nl), all scrum planning poker tools that will be now listed in a separate article due to the large number of existing tools
* May 2015
Added: PointingPoker.com, PlanningPoker.com, ScrumTool.me

scrumblr

scrumblr is a shared simple whiteboard where you can post post-its. The whiteboard can be split so that you can manage a simple equivalent of a taskboard. The posts-its are available in three colors and small color tags can be added to the post it to give some additional visual information about it. You can also use this tool for retrospectives. The interface is supposed to be intuitive, so you have to discover the available features.

Web site: http://scrumblr.ca/
No registration required

TaskJunction

TaskJunction  is an online tool to plan, estimate, and track your software development projects that supports Scrum. It allows create an unlimited number of projects and iteration for your software projects that you can manage through taskboards and track with burndown and other relevant charts. Once you register, a step by step process helps you to add the initial data for your project.

Web site: http://www.taskjunction.com/
Registration required

PlanITpoker

PlanITpoker is an online Scrum planning poker tool for Agile project teams. You can create multiple poker planning rooms using different planning methods and invite the other team members.

Web site: http://www.planitpoker.com/
Registration required

MeuScrum

MeuScrum is a free Kanban and Scrum online tool designed to solve the deficiency of an agile project management tool that is at the same time, easy to use, fast, and complete with useful features and a friendly interface. It allows managing all your projects, scrum team, backlogs, user stories, sprints, tasks, and the Kanban board easily and quickly with a drag-and-drop approach. For each project’s sprint, you have a kanban board with predefined columns. You can also add additional custom columns. You can decide if some of the predefined columns are visible or not. On the kanban board, you can create tasks and link them to active user stories. You can define a type of task (new, improvement, bug, …), a priority, assign them to a team member. You can also define a status that will put the task initially on a column of the kanban board. Then the tasks can be moved between columns using a normal “drag and drop” action. You can also associate one file, like a document, to the task. MeuScrum is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Website: https://www.meuscrum.com/en/
Registration required

easyBacklog

easyBacklog is a completely free service that help you manage your Agile and Scrum backlogs and sprints efficiently. You can create versions of your backlog and compare them. You can estimate a budget for the items and easily create a high level cost estimation.

Website: https://easybacklog.com/
Registration required

Hewlett Packard Yoda

Yoda is a lightweight extension to GitHub (Cloud or Enterprise) for supporting Agile Project Management using GitHub issues. Yoda was developed as an internal tool at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Open-Sourced using an MIT license in 2018.

Website: https://hewlettpackard.github.io/yoda/

Scrumfast

Scrumfast is a free online Agile project management and Scrum tool for small businesses, start-ups and personal projects. It has almost no bells and whistles, but because it is so lean, the user interface is extremely clean and no training is required to get up and running. Scrumfast’s primary user interface consists of 4 pages: Plan, Scrum, Analyze, and Retro.

Website: https://www.scrumfast.com/

Yet Another Burndown Generator

Yet Another Burndown Generator is a simple online tool to create a PDF ideal burndown chart. Creating it is as easy as give values to days that your sprint lasts, points that your team is trying to achieve and a describing title. Only with these values, a new “ready to print” PDF page containing the burndown is created for you just for free

Website: http://www.burndowngenerator.com/
No registration required

BurndownChart.fr

The Scrum burndown chart was a very powerful tool for the team if displayed on the Scrum Board, not hidden in an app. We developed this generator to easily create a reference burndown chart for each sprint for our own needs. And we thought that it could be cool to share it online.

Website: http://www.burndownchart.eu/en (English version. There is also a French version of the tool)
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