While it may seem surprising, simply increasing the size of an already successful team is not guaranteed to increase that team’s success and it may even put that team’s chances of future success in jeopardy. Read more...
Backlog refinement is a practice intended to help you keep the top of your backlog in a refined state so you can have better iteration planning sessions. But despite the value backlog refinement can yield, there is no officially prescribed approach for how to do it. However, if you’re looking for a simple way to introduce this practice to your team, then don’t despair: there’s an easy approach that you can use with your team today. Read more...
In this article, I present a framework to interpret different types of customer commitments, and early business validation experiments you can run to know if your Minimum Viable Product is actually viable. Read more...
Join us for a panel discussion on product management’s role in modern cross-functional teams as the Product Stack welcomes Heidi Helfand, Director of Engineering Excellence from Procore Technologies and author of the book Dynamic Reteaming, along with Agile Coach Jennifer Payne from ProductPlan, Product Manager Hadrien Raffalli from Pivotal Tracker, and VP of Products and UX Kevin Steigerwald from Jama Software. Read more...
Tracker’s interface is designed to provide a customizable experience to suit the needs of various roles and needs. This post will help ensure you’re getting the most out of Tracker, with features such as resizing and rearranging panels, cloning panels, splitting/combining current and backlog, pinned searches, workspaces, and more. Read more...
In this installment, we’ll discuss the importance of delivering working, usable software to your users over simply delivering reams of documentation. Read more...
Tracker now offers three of our favorite templates for story descriptions: Bug Report, User Story, and Example Mapping. You can select from a list by clicking on the description icon when adding or editing a description. Read more...
We’ve added syntax highlighting support for several new languages, including Gherkin, the domain-specific language consumed by the executable specification tool Cucumber (used for behavior-driven development). Read more...
No one can doubt that today, most companies and industries already firmly embrace agile for their planning, development, and operations processes. But one of the last questions that remains unanswered when moving to agile is, “What to do with testing?” To put it simply, organizations do not really know how, with whom, or when to do testing when they switch over to agile, and so the question lingers: What is the agile testing workflow? Read more...
Tracker recently experimented with our browser tab favicon, with the primary purpose of introducing a new feature to show if you have unread in-app notifications. While doing so, we also altered the look of the icon and Tracker logo. Wow, did we ever receive passionate feedback about that! We definitely took that feedback seriously. Read more...
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