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10 Free Scrum Project Management Tool

While the best tools for managing Scrum are note cards, whiteboards and big visible charts, there are many online tools that lets you manage a project using the Scrum methodology. If you are managing a Scrum for the first time, then we recommend you to stay with note cards, whiteboards and charts as the tools for managing until you have become familiar with the entire Scrum framework. When you are familiar with it, its fruitful to try your hands on some software tools that let you manage Scrum efficiently while you deliver.

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While there are many commercial tools available, here in this post we have a list of free tools that are used for Agile/Scrum project management.

1. Agile Tracking Tool

Agile Tracking Tool is a free open source tool that helps in knowing how much work is in progress and blocked. It maintains your backlog items with categories and lets you add acceptance criteria and comments on the backlog item. It provides support to measure iteration velocity and forecasts when work will be done using the measured velocity.

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2. iMeta Agility - Community Edition

iMeta Agility is a Silverlight application for the management of Scrum projects. The iMeta Agility’s Community Edition gives you full access to the system for teams of up to 5 members for FREE. It provides every essential feature that is needed by Scrum like Online Multi User, Product Backlog, Story Management, Sprint Management, Task Board and Burndown Chart.

More info here.

3. PangoScrum

PangoScrum is a free online tool for Scrum that lets you improve continually your efficiency while delivering. It provides a simple and friendly interface to write, estimate and rank priorities in your product backlog through. In PangoScrum the dates of your planning, review and retrospective meetings will be scheduled in a calendar for easy display and access.

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4. Scrumpy

Scrumpy is a free, standalone, 100% Java application specifically designed to help a Scrum Product Owner maintain a Backlog of User Stories.Scrumpy’s feature set has been carefully scoped to compliment your existing Scrum practices i.e. the ones involving a wall, sticky pieces of paper and people talking to each other. It assists with your day to day Backlog maintenance and provides you with a meaningful long term view that helps you to manage the expectation of your stakeholders.

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5. Agilito

Agilito is an open source, browser-based agile management tool that aims to do just enough for you to effectively and efficiently manage projects using an Agile methodology. It provides all that are required for Scrum project management.

More info here.

6. IceScrum 2

IceScrum 2 is a free and open source tool to manage a project using scrum. It lets you add stories to your product backlog, divide time in sprints and add stories from the backlog to a sprint. Users can pick up stories in the sprint backlog, estimate them, and complete them. You can also add tests on a story.

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7. Banana Scrum

Banana Scrum is a web based, online tool for teams practicing agile development, primarily Scrum. It was developed as a result of Codesprinters team’s experience in creating high quality web applications . It is meant to replace project walls, index cards and other paraphernalia of the paper age long gone.

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8. Sprintometer

Sprintometer is a free and simple user friendly application with modern GUI for Agile projects’ management and tracking. It can be used for management of SCRUM and XP projects. To simplify data exchange with external programs all charts and spreadsheets in Sprintometer can be exported to Microsoft Excel.

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9. Agilo for Scrum

Agilo is a free and flexible, web-based tool to support the Scrum process. Agilo delivers streamlined functionalities for managing Scrum. It’s free and open source, and can be used without limitations.  It is highly configurable to adapt to your specific workflow. It is designed and developed for Teams, Scrum Master, Product Owner and for all Stakeholder who are involved in the project.

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10. Agilefant

Alilefant is a free and open source tool for project and iteration management.  Agilefant is capable of bringing together long-term product and release planning, portfolio management and daily work of the entire organization.

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20+ Awesome Free and Open Source ERP & CRM Software Solutions

While the ERP & CRM field is dominated by players like Oracle, SalesForce and SAP, there are a number of Open Source software available for new companies who want to save their IT cost and get the benefit of tailoring every aspect of the ERP & CRM experience. Before you invest in an expensive proprietary ERP & CRM software its worth exploring the Open Source ERP and CRM solutions that are available in the market for free.

Check them out here on our detailed posts.

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Awesome Final Cut Pro Alternatives That Are Open Source

Apple’s Non Linear Editing Video Editing software Final Cut Pro is one of the best proprietary high end video editing tools around. Professional Hollywood block buster movies like Happy Feat, No Country For Old Man etc have used Final Cut Pro software. Its features are plenty. However, Final Cut pro is from Apple, Proprietary and not free. It is only available for Mac OS. So, What Linux/Windows users have to do? As usual, there are a few Open Source and Free alternatives to Final Cut Pro or even Adobe Premier Pro which is similar.

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Avidmux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

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Cinellera

Cinelerra does primarily 3 things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It’s a movie studio in a box.

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Kino

Kino is an open source  video editor, that runs on Linux.  You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. For complete list of features, visit the web site Kino

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OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source program that that lets you creates, modifies, and edits video files. Its is an open source non-linear video editor for Linux, with very powerful compositing functions, and key frame animations for titles and scrolling credits as well as for video clips. OpenShot provides support for most video formats and codecs, and has particularly good support for HD video and AVCHD.

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for more, please check our post 10 Awesome Free and Open Source Video Editors.

Top 12 Open Source CRM Software

While the CRM field is dominated by players like Oracle, SalesForce and SAP, there are a number of Open Source software available in the CRM market for new companies who want to save their IT cost and get the benefit of tailoring every aspect of the CRM experience from the ground up. In this post we have the top 12 Open Source CRM solutions that are available in the CRM market.

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SugarCRM

SugarCRM is an open-source software-solution vendor which produces the Sugar Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Sugar Community Edition gives you control and frees you from vendor lock-in. That is why, in just two years, Sugar Open Source has been downloaded over 1,000,000 times and translated into over 75 languages. Over 400 complements and extensions to Sugar Community Edition have been contributed by our user community.

Website: http://www.sugarforge.org

 

SplendidCRM

SplendidCRM is an open-source customer relationship management framework built in the Microsoft .NET environment. The product can be deployed in a variety of scenarios including Software-as-a-service. SplendidCRM is a commercial open-source CRM application that targets companies with an investment in Microsoft-based servers

Website: http://www.splendidcrm.com

 

ConcourseConnect

Open Source Business Social Software and Community Platform to connect employees, partners, and customers. Social Networking, Enterprise Social Computing, and more. ConcourseConnect is a comprehensive platform for rapidly deploying large online communities—whether internal, external or a combination of both. It is the first platform to bring together online community, social networking tools, integrated customer relationship management (CRM) tools and a set of full management tools. ConcourseConnect communities easily integrate with a powerful suite of customer relationship management (CRM) tools and a comprehensive management console.

Website: http://www.concursive.com/show/concourseconnect

 

Hipergate

hipergate is an open source web based application suite. hipergate includes 7 different modules by default and every module can be activated in a user/group/domain basis. The Contact Management Module covers the most common CRM tasks, such as Call Tracking, Contact management (company/person/address), Business opportunities and Distribuition Lists.

Website: http://www.hipergate.org

 

Compiere

Compiere is an open source ERP and CRM business solution for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise. It provides core ERP & CRM capabilities for Financial Management, Purchasing, Materials Management, Order Management, Project Accounting, Sales, Service, eCommerce, and Performance Management and Reporting.

Website: http://www.compiere.com

 

Vtiger CRM

vtiger CRM is an open source CRM application that was forked from SugarCRM with the intention of being a fully open source CRM application with comparable functionality to SugarCRM and Salesforce.com. It offers reporting, a customer portal and an Outlook plugin in its free edition which are paid features in other CRM applications.

Website: http://www.vtiger.com

 

XRMS CRM

XRMS CRM is an open source CRM business solution built over LAMP/WAMP (Linux/Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) technologies and other open source projects. XRMS CRM is an extensible Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system that enables organizations to successfully become customer-focused. It can integrate and manage sales, service, and marketing data in a single information store

Website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/xrms

 

openCRX

openCRX is a J2EE based professional enterprise class open source CRM (CRM) application released under the BSD License. openCRX is an open CRM solution that meets the needs of organizations requiring multifunctional, enterprise-wide coordination of sales generation, sales fulfillment, marketing and service activities to customers, partners, suppliers or intermediaries.

Website: http://www.opencrx.org

 

Opentaps

Opentaps is a web based ERP and CRM for small to medium sized businesses based on Apache Open for Business. Its functions include eCommerce, Point-of-Sales, inventory, warehouse, order, customer management and general ledger. It also offers built-in business intelligence tools and mobility integration, including with Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, and mobile phones. It is designed to bring together all parts of your organization, so that you can work together more effectively and make better business decisions

Website: http://www.opentaps.org

 

CiviCRM

CiviCRM is an open source (customer) relationship management (CRM) software. CiviCRM calls itself a ‘constituent relationship management solution’. CiviCRM is web-based, internationalized, and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental groups. Integration with both Drupal and Joomla! content management systems gives you the tools to connect, communicate and activate your supporters and constituents.

Website: http://civicrm.org

 

Cream 3.0

Cream 3.0 is a free and open-source customer relationship management (CRM) system designed for media organizations. The application tracks sales orders, payments, shipments, services, online and print subscriptions, and the effectiveness of promotional campaigns through its easy-to-use reporting and analytical functions.

Website: http://campware.org/en/camp/cream_news/613

 

epesiBIM

epesiBIM is an open source, web based Customer Relationship Management. open source web application to store, organize, link and share information between people within a single business or organization. epesi has a modular design and can be easily customized and modified to match your processes and workflow.

Website: http://www.epesibim.com

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10 Awesome Free and Open Source Video Editors

With an increase availability of Camcorders, Webcams, Mobiles with camera and other gadgets that allow one to capture view easily with very less professional knowledge on making movies, we have moved into an age where anyone can use a personal computer and produce a studio quality motion picture. All you need is a equipment that captures video (like Camcorders, webcam etc), the right software and a desire to be creative. With these three things put together you could create a stunning video presentation or a nice video of your summer vacation. While the video cameras are becoming cheaper, you also need good video editing software that is less expensive or absolutely free. Here in post we have reviewed 10 such video editing software that are absolutely free and open source.

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1. LiVES

LiVES is a Free, Open Source video editor for Linux that mixes real-time video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It lets you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or frame rates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ’s and video editors to mix and switch clips from the keyboard, using dozens of real-time effects. It lets to trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. For more information, check the website LiVES.

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2. OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source program that that lets you creates, modifies, and edits video files. Its is an open source non-linear video editor for Linux, with very powerful compositing functions, and key frame animations for titles and scrolling credits as well as for video clips. OpenShot provides support for most video formats and codecs, and has particularly good support for HD video and AVCHD. For more details, check the website openshotvideo

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3. Kdenlive

Kdenlive is free and open-source video editor for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. Kdenlive is intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. To take a look at various features provided by the software, take a look at the website kdenlive.

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4. Kino

Kino is an open source video editor, that runs on Linux. You can load multiple video clips, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it to an edit decision list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands are mapped to equivalent vi key commands. For complete list of features, visit the web site Kino

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5. Avidemux

Avidemux is a free and open source video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Avidemux is a simple video editor suited for editing several (proprietary) video formats that runs on all major platforms like Linux, Windows and OSX. For the complete feature list check the Avidemux site.

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6. Cinelerra

Cinelerra is an open source advanced video editor suited for editing several (proprietary) video formats, that runs on Linux. For the complete feature list check the Cinelerra site.

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7. PiTiVi

PiTiVi is a free and open source video editor, written in Python and based on GStreamer and GTK+. It is a intuitive and featureful movie editor for the Linux desktop. For complete feature list, check the PiTiVi website.

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8. Open Movie Editor

Open Movie Editor is a free and open source video editing program, designed for basic movie making capabilities. It aims do be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. It runs on Linux. You can check the complete feature list from the Open Movie Editor site.

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9. AviSynth

AviSynth is free open-source software. It is a powerful tool for video post-production. It provides ways of editing and processing videos on Windows. For complete list of features, please check the site AviSynth.

10. Lumiera

Lumiera is a Free/Open Source Non-Linear Video Editing (NLE) application project for Linux developed by the CinelerraCV. It was born as a rewrite of the Cinelerra codebase called Cinelerra3 but it is now an independent project with its own name. Its underdevelopment and you an view the details from the site Lumiera.

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