In the design of ZenTao, its framework is based on scrum while complement and perfect functions like test, document, release and planning. There must be people asking whether they have to adopt agile development if they use ZenTao. Of course, the answer is NO. You can conduct waterfall management with ZenTao and conduct well. Based on this point, we adopt neutral concepts instead of the specific concepts in scrum. Now, let’s have a look at the corresponding relationship 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 correspondence helps you understand the concept of product and project.
task	task
team	team
burndown chart	burndown chart
potential deliverables	发布

 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 the basic concepts in Scrum, ZenTao also complement and improved the following concepts in order to cover the whole life cycle of software.

• Product release planning
• Product roadmap
• Build
• Bug
• Test cases
• Test tasks
• Test results
• Document
• To-do

Now we have a general understanding of the relationship among ZenTao, Agile and Scrum. Now let’s look at the basic process to use ZenTao.