If you wonder how you can use MS Project with scrum see this slide show

1. INCREASE
YOUR PROJECTS EFFICIENCY
WITH ADEPT PROJECTSHARE
”SCRUM WITH MS PROJECT”
If You fail your project, your project will fail you

2. Scrum your way into the project 1
Projectmanager must define the project scope
budget based on the internal or external contract
Product owner must list all the features in the
productbacklog
Create Release backlog based on budget you
have.
Define Sprints based on release backlog
PM defines sprints and initial budget for each
sprint in MS Project and publish it to Projectshare

3. Scrum your way into the project 2
In Projectshare, Scrum master gather the team and
creates a Scrumboard for each sprint
On each scrumboard the sprint backlog is created
and ETC (estimate to complete) are defined for
each backlog.
The total Scrum ETC is calculated and can be
directly compared with Initial ETC from Project
manager
If Scrum ETC exceeds the Initial ETC. Backlogs can
be moved to new sprint or PM can assign more
work to the sprint

4. Scrum your way into the project 3
Freeze Scrum board ETC and
Scrum master must make daily standup meeting with
the team and write down the ETC on each backlog
Team Member write daily work in Timesheet
Use Burndownchart to see the project progress
Use Burnupchart to see if it spent hours matches
with burndownchart
Import hours in MS Project to see overall progress

5. Screen Shots

6. Resources are Imported from Projectshare to MS
Project
Global Resource pool in Projectshare Server
Importing toLocal Resource pool in Ms project

7. Import Vacations
Resources inserts vacations within the project scope in projectshare
Importing to Local calendar in Ms project

8. Create your project (SPRINTS) and
publish
Create the sprints in MS Project. The resource vacations and
Country hollidays will be calculated within your plan.

9. Analyse your sprint in scrumboard
When you published your project you can create scrumboard
for each Sprint created in MS Project.

10. Resources can insert hours into the sprint and then the
hours can be imported to MS Project or Projectsimple
Resources begin to register time daily
Importing Timephased data into ms project

11. Scrum master can always draw a
Burndownchart
Burndown charts shows the health of your project. It shows if it is delayed or on schedule.
The forecast line shows the Trend of your project based on current progress.
Actual shows the actual progress and the Projected line shows, how the progress project should look if
everything goes as planned.

12. Resources can see the plan on a web
gantt, (Save a MS PROJECT license)

13. Screen Shots
Executive Reportings

14. Project Report:Time/Actuals/BaseLine
This report shows all spent hours , remaining work and start and finish dates. Both as chart and Reports
It also shows how you current project look like compared from the original planned. By baseline compare

15. Project Custom Report
Select your own fields from project(task/user table) and show it in the report

16. Chart Resource Allocation
Views the 3 charts, Allocation per user, For whole department or company
Below shows selected user allocation

17. Report Resource hours
Views the timespent of users on dailybasis grouped by Department

18. Report Resource Admin hours
Views the timespent on Administartive hours such Sickdays, Sickleaves , meeting flex

19. Highlights
Use MS Project for see the whole picture,
dependencies, total progress, base line and more.
Avoid to create detail planning in MS Project but
keep it simple on Sprint level.
Let the the team make the detail planning on
scrumboard.
Enforce your team to fill hours in timesheet.
Controling of Spent hours is Controling your costs.

20. Conclusion
Use MS Project for see the whole picture,
dependencies, total progress, base line and more.
Avoid to create detail planning in MS Project but
keep it simple on Sprint level.
Let the the team make the detail planning on
scrumboard.
Let every

21. MS Project Integration
In order to use MS Project for scrum, you need an
Addon to MS Project.
Please contact support@adept.dk to get access to the
addon.