ZenTao is designed based on Scrum and has features like test, document, release, and planning. You might be wondering whether you have to adopt Agile methodology if you want to use ZenTao. The answer is NO. You can do Waterfall using ZenTao and you will do it quite well. Considering that users might use different methodologies, we adopt a more neutral concepts instead of concepts in Scrum. Now, let’s have a look at the corresponding relations between ZenTao and Scrum.

1. Concepts

Scrum	ZenTao	Comment
product	product	The concept of product is used in ZenTao.
user story	story	Story is used in ZenTao. It is the same concept of user story.
sprint	project	This helps you understand the concepts of product and project.
task	task
team	team
burndown chart	burndown chart
potential deliverables	release

 2. Roles

Scrum	ZenTao	Comment
product owner	product manager	Product manager, a relatively neutral concept, is used in ZenTao.
scrum master	project manager
team	team

3. Concepts in ZenTao

Except for the basic Scrum concepts, ZenTao also has the followings as complementary concepts in order to cover the whole lifecycle of software development.

• Product release planning
• Product roadmap
• Build
• Bug
• Test cases
• Test tasks
• Test results
• Document
• Todo

Now we have a general understanding of the relations of ZenTao, Agile and Scrum. Now let’s look at the basic process to use ZenTao in the following chapters.