10 Best Scrum Software Tools & Scrum Boards For 2024

Monday is a collaborative work OS used by the likes of Hulu, Adobe, GameLoft, BBC Studios, and Universal. The colorful, user-friendly tool hammers home the importance of cooperative work with features like drag-and-drop team scheduling, RAG progress updates, and simple guest access/sharing. The free plan alone boats unlimited boards, 200+ templates, over 20 column types, and unlimited free viewers. It has good iOS and Android apps, as well.

monday.com costs from $6/user/month and comes with a free 14-day trial. They offer a free plan for up to 2 users.

QuickBase is a cloud-based application development platform that enables users to create custom business applications without the need for coding expertise. Its platform can also be adapted for use as scrum software, supporting agile project management methodologies. This allows teams to manage sprints, backlogs, and user stories within a customizable framework.

QuickBase's flexibility in application design and data management additionally allows scrum teams to configure the system to their specific workflow requirements, facilitating the iterative development and continuous improvement central to scrum practices.

QuickBase integrates with Microsoft Teams, Tableau, Slack, Salesforce, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Dropbox, Google Drive, Marketo, and Zendesk.

QuickBase costs from $35/user/month (billed annually) and comes with a 30-day free trial.

Jira Scrum board takes this workflow software powerhouse and hones it around team collaboration and incremental delivery starts. A few features scrum masters will find handy are their printable agile user story cards, 25+ agile extensions and filters, and a robust project template manager. Atlassian owns Jira, Confluence, Trello, BitBucket, SourceTree, Bamboo—making it great for enterprises who want everything in a single ecosystem.

Jira costs from $7/month for up to 10 users. They also offer free licensing for groups of 10 users or less.

ClickUp bills itself as 'one app to replace them all' and I tend to agree. It's a good jack-of-all-trades option that handles basic tasks, docs, team chat, and goals within a sleek, welcoming interface. Remote scrum teams will love the easy screenshots and recording features for long-distance stand-up meetings. On top of everything, their free plan is quite generous, with unlimited tasks and unlimited members plus 100MB of storage space.

ClickUp costs $5/user/month. They also have a free version with unlimited tasks and unlimited members.

Zoho Sprints is an agile project management tool that helps Scrum teams organize user stories, manage backlogs, and track progress on Scrum Boards. It’s a simple and clutter-free Scrum software that helps teams to focus on shipping great quality work.

The drag and drop planning builder helps teams plan their upcoming sprints by moving items from their project backlog to their sprint backlog. The project backlog serves as the repository of all user stories, tasks, and bugs. The dedicated planning center equips teams to refine their project backlog with options to filter, sort and search items across default and custom parameters.

The Scrum Board in Zoho Sprints is highly customizable and provides visibility and transparency of everyone’s progress. It is effortless to drag-and-drop stories into completion, create custom statuses and set WIP limits. Teams can sort work items into swimlanes based on priority, story, or estimation points, and track the progress of sprints in an exclusive sprint dashboard.

Zoho Sprints provides real-time reports and insights into the overall progress. The Velocity Chart calculates the amount of work delivered in each sprint and helps teams to plan and estimate future sprints. Meanwhile, Burndown and Burnup charts help teams to track the pace at which they are burning estimation points by comparing the current and ideal progress line.

Communication and collaboration are crucial in every aspect of life, and

they're especially critical when you're working with cross-functional teams. With Zoho Sprints, product teams can collaborate within the context of their work through features like built-in chat, virtual meetings, and an interactive project feed.

Zoho Sprints integrates well with popular code repository management tools like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket. DevOps teams can also automate their CI/CD pipelines by integrating with developer tools like Jenkins and Azure DevOps. Teams can leverage webhooks and APIs to build their integrations or browse through a growing library of apps listed on Zoho's marketplace.

Zoho Sprints starts at $6/user/month (billed annually). They offer a freemium version for up to 3 users for 3 projects. Zoho Sprints offers a free trial for 15 days (no credit card required).

Miro is a collaborative online whiteboard with over 1,000 templates including mind maps, Kanban boards, Gantt charts, product wireframes, research boards, and flowcharts. It’s trusted by 99% of the Fortune 100, and used by teams at TransUnion, HP, Upwork, Cisco, Qlik, and Atkins. Miro’s visual platform is built for hybrid work, and has robust resources for continuous learning like Miro Academy, online events, and a community forum.

Miro offers a range of communication and visualization tools that cross-functional teams can lean on for keeping each other updated. Bonus: You can use these tools to ensure your scrum daily stand up flows smoothly.

At The Digital Project Manager, we use Miro to map out content clusters and to visualize content workflows from start (brainstorming ideas) to finish (publishing the content on our site).

Miro has integrations with a whole suite of tools, including Zoom, Figma, Asana, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Slack, Google Drive, Box, Airtable, Notion, Azure, and Webex. Some integrations are limited to paid plans only.

Miro is free to use for unlimited members with up to 3 editable boards. Paid plans start at $8/user/month (billed annually).

Hubstaff Tasks is a project management tool with multiple task tracking and collaboration features. Its interface is based on the Scrum methodology; it lets you organize tasks in different project stages, which are represented by columns. Each task can be categorized using color-coded labels. One of its notable features is custom workflows. These let you automate assigning tasks to team members at different project stages and moving them forward with one click.

You can create checklists within each task and track them from the project view using progress bars. Files can also be attached to task cards, but the free plan only allows up to 100 MB of storage per user. Switching to the sprints view displays all your assigned tasks, organized by sprint. You can move tasks to current or future sprints or to the backlog with a drag-and-drop mechanism similar to Kanban.

Hubstaff Tasks integrates with Active Collab, Asana, Breeze, ClickUp, GitHub, GitLab, Insightly, JIRA, LiquidPlanner, Mavenlink, Paymo, PivotalTracker, Podio, Redbooth, Redmine, Teamwork Projects, Trello, Unfuddle, Wrike, Zoho Projects, Slack, Zendesk, Salesforce, QuickBooks, and other apps. You can boost your integration options with a paid plan through Zapier, unlocking hundreds of other possible connections.

Hubstaff Tasks is free for up to 5 users and 10 projects. The premium plan starts at $7/user/month and includes a 14-day free trial.

VivifyScrum is a web-based project management tool that comes with free Scrum training via their VivifySCrum EDU course—just one of the many added benefits that small teams and startups will appreciate. They also have fixed price licensing for SMBs trying to navigate the growing world of monthly workflow app subscriptions. Additionally, teams of all sizes will appreciate their flexible agile boards, burndown charts, and Scrum metrics graphs.

VivifyScrum costs from $96 as a one-time fee for 10 users and offers a 7-day free trial as well as a 30-day refund policy upon purchase.

Targetprocess is a Scrum team management app with tailored solutions for product owners, release train engineers, portfolio managers, and agile coaches. They make sprint retrospectives simple with built-in tools to check team happiness, organize feedback, or just record a high-level summary of a project. Targetprocess has board tags for 'worked well,' 'didn't work well,' and 'improvement ideas', making collaborative retrospectives even easier.

Targetprocess offers customized pricing upon request.

Nutcache is a Scrum project management tool with the ability to measure task progress, set a business value to cards (ROI), assign complexity points to cards, display real-time sprint statistics, and use acceptance tests to set cards as completed. Nutcache has a healthy list of third-party integration options and also works with a paid Zapier plan to unlock thousands more. They also offer a flexible API to connect Nutcache to your existing tools and workflow.

Nutcache costs from $6/user/month with a “Pro” plan that requires 5 users.