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ZenTao once again stands out from the crowd as the most common test management tool in the industry. This is the eighth year in a row that ZenTao has been the winner of "Common Test Management Tools"!

Before we dig down on to consider migration from Jira to ZenTao, let’s start with the basics, for business positions, who might be new to this. We’ll briefly introduce you to Jira, it’s the most popular alternative — ZenTao, and then touch base on the most common reasons, why businesses decided to move from Jira to ZenTao.

The open platform is based on ZenTao ALM, the project management software from EasyCorp and it is to encourage ZenTao users to release extensions and to take part in the development, as well as to create the ecosystem of project management, so to do win-win with ZenTao developer users.

Agile Vs Scrum: Know the Difference. Agile is a development methodology based on an iterative and incremental approach. Scrum is one of the implementations of agile methodology.

ZenTao offers a DMS Tool (Documents Management System) similar to the Windows explorer of your hard disk., which is very intuitive. ZenTao is the best DMS Tool I have seen forever !!

Agile is the buzz we hear all around. It is a new proven way to manage your project and related activities. Sounds interesting is it?. Agile introduced enormous possibilities and new improved way of project/product deliveries.What makes it more efficient and prominent is implementation using Agile Management Tools. We are familiar with agile project management tool like JIRA and most probably using it in many organizations. When it comes to Test Management JIRA is somewhere not efficiently handling it without paid plugins.

ZenTao premium versions, Pro and Biz are required.

"Story points rate the relative effort of work in a Fibonacci-like format: 0, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100.”1 It is used to evaluate the difficulty of a product backlog and to show the difference of work. For example, it takes 1 story point to develop an entry. Based on this estimates, Dev teams estimate how many story points it takes to do other story. As it is said in the quote above, story point is a relative reference.

Practitest.com released the State of Testing Report 2018 and gives a glimpse into what is going on in the testing community. With years observation of the testing community, trends regarding training, skills, as well as processes are reviewed and foretasted. As ZenTao has the testing feature, the survey result that is related to testing tools and models caught our attention.

Thinking of getting certified is definitely worth doing. As it is reported on Scrum Alliance website, the benefits are

It might be a great idea not mentioning Scrum at all when implementing it. Try to practice Scrum using another names.

This is the true story of one of our ZenTao users who introduced ZenTao to his team and improved the performance of the whole team.