Scrum with pen & paper
A friend of mine recently asked me if I'd know any good freeware tools for use with Scrum. Well, I told him, I don't have any first hand experience with freeware Scrum tools but there certainly are a few.
However in the case that you're just starting with Scrum I would argue that you might be better off without tools. All tools force you into some kind of process that works for somebody else, but might not be optimal for you.
So instead of jumping to a fancy tool that comes with all the bells and whistles instantly, I'd recommend starting as low-tech as possible, learn the basics and discover your individual needs. After that you are enabled to get the Scrum tool that does exactly what you need it to do.
How do you start low-tech? Use pen and paper.
Planning Poker cards .pdf for download
Planning poker is an estimation technique which is widely used by the agile community and which I just introduced to my team yesterday. In case you're not familiar with what planning poker is about, the Wikipedia has a pretty decent explanation.
While you can buy professional card decks for planning poker online from many sources [1], [2], I decided to try a little more subtle start and go with our own cut-out version.
So that's my post for the day... click on the link to get the probably most minimalistic Planning Poker cards wordwide 
. Don't expect anything flashy though... it will get the job done, but that's about it.
Psssssst... the third article in my series on continuous integration for PHP will be out in less than 48 hours...
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