Looking to take your organization’s mission administration to the subsequent stage? Maybe you must begin utilizing Scrum. Jack Wallen walks you thru the deployment of the open-source IceScrum platform.

If you’re a developer or a mission supervisor, you already know what scrum is. If not, know that scrum is a framework used to develop, ship and maintain product growth inside a fancy and agile atmosphere. Scum can be utilized in nearly any discipline, sector or enterprise seeking to optimize product releases and lifecycles.
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One scrum platform that’s fairly spectacular is the open-source IceScrum, which options every little thing you want for a whole scrum platform.
I wish to stroll you thru the easy steps of deploying IceScrum on Ubuntu Server 20.04.
What you’ll want
The solely stuff you’ll have to make this work are an occasion of Ubuntu Server 20.04 and a consumer with sudo privileges. That’s it … let’s begin this dash.
How to put in Java
IceScrum may be very specific concerning the model of Java you should use. At this second, it solely helps variations 7 and eight, so we’ll set up model 8. To do this, log into your Ubuntu Server occasion and subject the command:
sudo apt set up openjdk-8-jdk -y
Once that set up completes, obtain the IceScrum .jar file with the command:
wget https://www.icescrum.com/downloads/v7/icescrum.jar
With the .jar file downloaded, we will now launch IceScrum. What we wish to do is launch the service with an outlined host deal with. If you don’t do this, IceScrum will solely be listening on the loopback deal with, which implies you received’t be capable of entry it from wherever exterior the internet hosting machine. Say, for example, you’re internet hosting IceScrum on a server with an IP deal with of 192.168.1.70. To deploy IceScrum and have it pay attention on that deal with, the command can be:
java -Xmx1024M -jar icescrum.jar host=192.168.1.70
The deployment will take a couple of minutes to finish. When it does, it’ll current you with a display informing you how one can attain the web-based interface (Figure A).
Figure A

Point an online browser to http://SERVER:8080/icescrum (Where SERVER is the IP deal with of the internet hosting server).
You can be introduced with the IceScrum setup wizard (Figure B).
Figure B

During the setup wizard, you’ll be requested to import a license. This is barely if you wish to allow the Apps & Integrations function. You can both begin a trial license or skip this by deciding on Skip Free Trial (Figure C) and clicking Next.
Figure C

In the database setup window (Figure D), go away the password discipline clean and click on Next.
Figure D

Finish strolling by the wizard and, on the final display (Figure E), click on Submit the Configuration.
Figure E

Once the configuration has been submitted, you’ll end up on the IceScrum login web page, the place you’ll authenticate with the admin consumer you created within the setup wizard. Once you’ve logged in, you can begin constructing your tasks, scrums and sprints.
Congratulations, you now have a full-featured scrum platform prepared to assist your groups be extra agile.
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