Tim3box

How does you daily scrums (also known as daily stand-ups) usually pan out?

* Do you find it hard to get your teammates to leave their desks/terminals to attend the daily scrum?

* Is it difficult to get a volunteer to kickstart the daily stand-ups?

* Do your daily scrums often go on for way too long causing most people to blank out?

* Do you find it frustrating to coordinate your scrum when some of your team members are participating via a conference line?

* Do some of your team members always take way too much time to give their updates and no one dares to interrupt them?

If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then Tim3box is probably what you need. Not only does it help you time your scrums, it also coordinates the entire stand-up from start to finish! If you are a scrum master, you will definitely find that it is a very handy assistant.

Some of the app's features are:

* It uses Text-to-Speech technology to coordinate the daily scrum

* It can be used to announce the scrum meeting to get your team members’ attention and get them away from their desks

* It allows you to enter pronunciation information of participants (e.g. you can configure Kyra to be pronounced as Keera)

* It randomly selects different phrases so that the meeting is not monotonous

* It allows you to define 2 different scrum meetings

* It randomly selects participants to give their updates which forces everyone to be alert and prepared before the meeting. This also removes the need for anyone to volunteer to start and makes the meeting go much more smoothly when some team members are participating via a conference line

* It warns the participants when they are going over their allocated time

* It supports different accents (e.g. British, French, German)

Tim3box has been developed over the course of a year, after a lot of trials at work and important adjustments. Now the scrum team involved in developing this app find it impossible to have their daily stand-ups without it!

The good news is that you can now use this app too.