Scrum meeting minutes collaboration tool

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Scrum meeting minutes collaboration tool

I'm looking for light weight, free and installable scrum meeting minutes collaboration tool. Twiki seems pretty heavy weight for just this purpose. I've seen several other SO threads but they all mainly focus on 'complete' Agile/Scrum management. I'm just looking for a meeting minutes collaboration tool.

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I'm not sure to understand the need exactly (there is no meeting minutes in Scrum), I don't understand why you need meeting minutes (but let's say you absolutely need them) and who is going to write them collaboratively (not the team, right?).

But if you're looking for something easy and ready to use, I'd suggest Google Docs, it works pretty well in collaborative mode.

But honestly, I would start by challenging the need for Scrum meeting minutes, they sound like waste to me (I may be wrong of course).

Pascal Thivent 2010-09-18 08:31:22

@Pascal Thivent: Thanks for answering. I understand your concerns but I need to store those meeting minutes. I'm looking for installable solution rather than Google Docs.

understack 2010-09-18 08:42:44

@understack Ok... But if installing a wiki is too heavy, why not using a word processor? What are your needs exactly? Clarifying your requirements might help to get an answer.

Pascal Thivent 2010-09-19 13:59:16

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Teams, I am working with, have found daily meetings non valuable (after 2 sprints).

If you are able to answer a question "Who has benefit of daily meeting log" then do them. Otherwise don't.

In our case it was a distributed team. They thougth that minutes have some value for ppl that are not able to attend daily meeting, but the same could be done easy by observation of taskboard or activities log (if you are using a tool).

Maybe to mention technique that we found usable and easy to use: we are using voice communicator tool with chat possibility. People write what they did yesterday (etc.) in a chat while speak about their status. ScrumMaster then copy/paste all chats into one wiki page for daily status.

Dusan Kocurek 2010-09-19 13:34:58

I'm sorry but what you did is a classic example of Scrum But(t) - you found daily meetings to be too hard, so you dropped them. And - by the way - chat is not the same thing as talking, even over Skype.

Andy 2010-09-21 09:14:31

I am not saying people are not talking, just saying that chat is for better understanding in case of incorrect prononciation, different cultures, etc.

Dusan Kocurek 2010-09-21 20:25:33

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What about using Open Atrium, where you can store tasks as well as documents? It has structured parts like tasks as well as wiki like pages.

Go here: http://openatrium.com/

Tul 2010-09-20 14:02:17

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There is no such thing as Scrum meeting minutes. There is the Scrum backlog that should be updated at least daily around Daily Scrum. There are different tools for that - from physical boards, through Google Docs and Excel spreadsheets to specialized tools like our Banana Scrum and numerous others.

By the way - don't go down the slippery slope of doing something else while calling it Scrum. If you need "meeting minutes" it is not Scrum. It may be a fine process and you may be doing very well with it - I'm not saying otherwise - but just don't call it Scrum.

Andy 2010-09-21 09:19:34

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