Flying Donut

Flying Donut is online Scrum and Kanban software for teams that want agile project management without the configuration burden and interface density of larger tools. Its design philosophy is deliberate simplicity: boards, backlogs and sprints work the way the agile methods describe, with minimal setup and no requirement to define workflows, custom field schemes and permission matrices before a team can begin. A project is created, work items are added, and the board is immediately usable — which suits small teams, new adopters of agile practice and organisations that have found heavier tools become an administrative project in their own right.

Scrum support covers product backlogs, sprint planning with capacity awareness, sprint boards, estimation in points or hours, and burndown charts tracking progress against the sprint commitment. Kanban support provides continuous-flow boards with configurable columns, work-in-progress limits to expose bottlenecks, and cumulative flow and cycle time reporting for teams measuring throughput rather than sprint velocity. Teams can switch between or combine the two approaches as their practice evolves. Work items carry descriptions, assignees, estimates, priorities, tags, attachments, checklists and threaded comments, and can be organised into epics and hierarchies for larger efforts. Real-time collaboration means board changes appear immediately for everyone viewing, which matters for distributed teams running remote stand-ups against a shared board. Both public and private projects are supported, so open source and community initiatives can run visible boards alongside confidential commercial work. Reporting covers velocity, burndown, cycle time and team workload, giving the metrics needed for retrospectives and forecasting without exporting data elsewhere. Notifications, mentions and activity feeds keep participants informed, and the interface remains usable on tablets and phones. Flying Donut suits small and medium development teams, startups, agencies and non-software teams applying agile methods. A free version is available alongside a free trial, with paid plans from around USD 5 per user per month.