What do you think about Banana Scrum?

What Banana Scrum has going for it is its sheer simplicity and ability to get out of your way. I've tried Mingle, Rally, and other PM tools, but in the face of Banana Scrum, they're all much too complicated for Scrum management of small teams. Having said that, its strength is also its weakness -- it is still repetitive to do common things like work with sprint+product backlogs, and the flow of the interface is in dire need of attention. Additionally, details like lack of time zone choice and perceived speed are little quirks that do add up.

I think with more polishing and attention to UI detail, Banana Scrum could be even more powerful while still enjoying its current simplicity.

Hi,
I've mostly worked with Microsoft TFS 2008 and the Conchango Scrum template and it has been really good to me ;)
Now I'm looking for a more lightweight tool, while you seem to have gotten most of the basics into Banana there are a few things that are very dear to me:

Some way to see estimated time vs actually spent time

History on the stories or locking them to force opening a new one to introduce change

Being able to set state on backlog items maybe even on tasks, i realise this could be accomplished to some extent by creative use of the tags

Thnx for developing an interesting product

Just discovered Banana Scrum recently and I realy like it in its simplicity, agility and inituitive UI, adding lots of extra features would brake that down imho. I would like to see some more subtile improvements though, making the current features richer, like the earlier mentioned history on items for example.

Some other simple ideas could be the business value/priority on backlog items at the same line as the estimations. Or maybe keeping track of releases and sort backlog items into releases. And even a sub-item option, so big user stories can be divided into sub-items and easily arranged/sorted as one.

Just a few ideas that came into mind, although nothing you cant already do with some input templates or extra work, you're doing a great job. Not too complicated, but with all the features so I can work with it straight out of the box, keep up the good work.

Great tool. Just wish I could deploy it in one of our servers :)

I love the tool, only change I'd want is "some way" of reporting actual hours. I know its not strictly part of scrum but in the real world our PM's want to know how many hours we actually spent. It would be great if there was a "time spent" and a "time left" instead of just the task hours. I've looked at version one's tool and it was completely overkill and not as easy to use as banana.