User guide

Youm’s screens, step by step. Every screenshot comes from the version described below, in English, on desktop and on phone.

Chapters

1. Sign in and sign up

   Create your account, confirm your address, then sign in.

2. Create your organisation

   Name the organisation that will bring your teams and projects together.

3. Invite people

   Bring colleagues and outside people into the organisation.

4. Teams and projects

   Create the teams, then the projects they run, and share out the roles.

5. Propose and follow a request

   Express a need or report a defect, then follow where the request stands.

6. Estimate and rank the backlog

   The team estimates accepted stories, the Product Owner decides their order.

7. Features and themes

   Group the stories that carry the same business value, called Themes on the business side.

8. Releases and sprints

   Split a Version into sprints, plan estimated stories into them and start the next sprint.

9. Tasks and Task Board

   Split stories into tasks and move them forward during the active sprint.

10. Acceptance tests and validation

    Check a story with its acceptance tests, move it to Awaiting validation, then validate it or request a correction.

11. Sprint closing and velocity

    Close the sprint, read its summary and velocity, and find the sprint and release notes.

12. Working together

    See other people’s changes live, and what happens when two people edit the same request.

13. Comment and attach files

    Discuss a request in Markdown, mention someone on the project and attach files.

14. Follow a request and be notified

    Follow a request, receive notifications in Youm and by email, and set your preferences.

15. Languages, mobile and keyboard

    Choose your language, use Youm on a phone and navigate it entirely with the keyboard.

16. Business and Technical views

    Two ways to see the same requests, depending on your role.