If the development of open source Scrum tools was in vogue some years ago, a lot of these projects have now been abandoned. Some are still active like IceScrum or ScrumDo, but this is because their development is sponsored by a commercial hosted option There is however an alternative to manage your Agile project if you have a low budget… and a small team. Some providers of commercial Scrum tools provide a free version of their software.

These tools often come with some limitation, which are mainly the number of users or the number of projects that you can manage with the tools. If you are however a small team focused on the development of a single product, these limitations about the team or the product will not harm your project.

This article presents a list of commercial tools for Scrum that are available for free. We have divided this list in two categories: the tools that you can install on your own hardware infrastructure and the tools that provides Scrum features as a hosted service that distributed teams can share. Tools that propose only a free trial limited in time are not included in this list. Although the information below has verified when the article was written, the free availability of the tools may vary according to vendor policy. Do not hesitate to contact us to add additional free commercial Scrum tools to this list or to communicate modifications in the information listed below. The tools are listed in alphabetical order.

Local Tools

ProjectCards

ProjectCards allows you to manage eXtreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban, Lean software development or any other iterative project. Development seems to have stopped at the end of 2010.
Limitations: 2 users, 4 projects, limited features
Web: http://www.projectcards.com/

Rational Team Concert

IBM Rational Team Concert integrates task tracking, source control and agile planning with continuous builds and a configurable process to adapt to the way you work.
Limitations: 10 users
Web: https://jazz.net/products/rational-team-concert/

TinyPM

TinyPM is a lightweight tool for agile collaboration which features include product management, backlog, taskboard, user stories, wiki, integration and REST API. There is also a free hosted version.
Limitations: 5 users
Web: http://www.tinypm.com/

Hosted Tools

Acunote

Acunote is a project management and Scrum tool that provides powerful analytics for data-driven project management.
Limitations: 5 users
Web: http://www.acunote.com/

AgileWrap

AgileWrap is a simple agile lean product lifecycle management solution providing requirements, release and iteration management features.
Limitations: 5 users
Web: http://www.agilewrap.com/

Bright Green Projects

Bright Green Projects is a simple agile project management tool based on principles of Scrum and Lean Kanban.
Limitations: 3 users, 2 projects
Web: http://www.brightgreenprojects.com/

IceScrum Cloud

IceScrum Cloud is the hosted and full features version of the IceScrum open source tool.  Features: product backlog, release&  sprint planning, visual management, REST API.
Limitations: 1 user, 1 project
Web: https://www.kagilum.com/icescrum-hosting/

ScrumDo

ScrumDo.com is the hosted and full features version of the ScrumDo open source tool. Features include planning poker, release and iteration planning.
Limitations: 3 users, 1 project, limited features
Web: http://www.scrumdo.com/

Rally – Community Edition

Rally Community Edition is an agile project management tool that allows to define and manage your product backlog and to plan and manage iterations.
Limitations: 10 users, 1 project, limited features
Web: http://www.rallydev.com/product-features/rally-community-edition

ScrumDesk

ScrumDesk is an online Scrum project management tools for onsite or distributed teams to manage agile projects simply with an interactive task board.
Limitations: 5 users
Web: http://www.scrumdesk.com/

ScrumHalf

ScrumHalf is a tool that supports agile projects based on Scrum framework. It has several features for helping the customer and the project team.
Limitations: 2 users, 1 project
Web: http://www.myscrumhalf.com/en/

ScrumNinja

ScrumNinja is an elegant, intuitive and easy-to-use agile project management tool.
Limitations: 1 user
Web: http://www.scrumninja.com/scrum-software

ScrumTool

ScrumTool provides a taskboard for agile projects management.
Limitations: 2 users, 60 backlog items
Web: http://scrumtool.me/

Scrumy

Scrumy is a project management tool loosely based on Scrum.
Limitations: Limited features
Web: http://www.scrumy.com/

Silver Catalyst

Silver Catalyst is an agile project management tool for Scrum and Kanban teams that use lean or agile methods.
Limitations: 1 user
Web: http://toolsforagile.com/

TargetProcess

TargetProcess is an agile project management tool that allows implementing the Scrum and Kanban approaches. Features include management of Scrum both at the release and the sprint level.
Limitations: 5 users
Web: http://www.targetprocess.com/

TinyPM

TinyPM is a lightweight tool for agile collaboration including product management, backlog, taskboard, user stories, wiki, integration and REST API. There is also a free local version available.
Limitations: 2 users, 3 projects
Web: http://www.tinypm.com/

VersionOne – Team Edition

VersionOne is a Scrum tool that allows centralized story and defect management, release and sprint planning, online storyboard, taskboard and testboard.
Limitations: 10 users, 1 project, Limited features
Web: http://www.versionone.com/Product/Compare_Editions/Team/

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