The Opinionated Guide To The YOW! Conference

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The Opinionated Guide To The YOW! ConferenceAgile, Agile Bench, Conference

by Mark Mansour on November 27, 2012 with 0 comments

The Agile Bench team is heading to the YOW! conference in Melbourne, Australia (again!) because it filled with fantastic speakers and we always have great corridor conversations. There are a bunch of great talks on product development, process improvement, software development, dev ops, big data and creativity. We’ve trawled through the speaker bios, read their …

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Agile Bench at Microsoft’s Tech Ed Australia

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Agile Bench at Microsoft’s Tech Ed AustraliaAgile Bench, Conference

by Mark Mansour on November 2, 2012 with 0 comments

MYOB‘s Simon Raik-Allen and Aidan Casey built a distributed Pong implementation using Node.js for Microsoft’s Tech Ed Australia conference keynote. Tech Republic’s Upsite has a podcast detailing how they built it and mentioned how the used Agile Bench to keep themselves on track (at 9:20 seconds remaining). About Mark MansourMark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark …

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Mark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.

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Make your story wall prettier with beautiful card covers

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Make your story wall prettier with beautiful card coversAgile Bench, Features

by Mark Mansour on October 3, 2012 with 0 comments

Beautiful Card Covers For Story Walls Information Radiators help teams communicate what is happening with the team. They’re big, they’re visible and you can get what you need at a glance.  The Story Wall is a one of these radiators and Agile Bench has the best one in the industry nicely showing you the item …

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Email Notifications

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Email NotificationsAgile Bench, Features

by Mark Mansour on September 11, 2012 with 0 comments

You and your team can now be notified, via email, when a “significant” event occurs on Agile Bench.   We have a full list of our email notifications over on our support site. It’s a fine line between letting your team know what’s going on and sending them useless emails that just clog up their …

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Agile Books – There is so much to learn

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Agile Books – There is so much to learnAgile, Education

by Mark Mansour on September 4, 2012 with 0 comments

Whether you’re new to agile methods or you’re an old hand, there is always room to learn.  We’ve compiled a list of agile books over on our support forumto help people of every ilk up to speed. We’ve broken the books into the following categories: Introduction to Agile Software Development Practices Project Management Practices Requirements …

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Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking Conference

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Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking ConferenceAgile, Conference

by Mark Mansour on July 25, 2012 with 0 comments

The LAST (Lean, Agile and Systems Thinking) conference is running this Friday and we’re very excited to be attending.  Craig Brown and Ed Wong have put together an amazing line up from grass roots Lean, Agile and System Thinkers that pushes beyond the usual introductory material you’d find at a conference.  I’m most delighted about the way Craig and …

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10 Agile Bloggers You Should Know About, But Don’t

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10 Agile Bloggers You Should Know About, But Don’tAgile, Education

by Mark Mansour on July 2, 2012 with 17 comments

Paul Dolman-Darral over at Value Flow Quality recently published a list of The Top 20 Most Influential Agile People. This is a great list of established Agile Bloggers, many of whom are book authors. But these people get all of the attention. There are lots of hard working, throughful bloggers out there that you haven’t heard of …

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Time zones and your distributed agile teams

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Time zones and your distributed agile teamsAgile Bench, Features

by Mark Mansour on June 29, 2012 with 0 comments

Great teams need great talent and great talent doesn’t alway live down the street. So you go off, assemble your distributed agile teams and keep on creating great products. Your product guy may live in Canada with a UX lean in Paris and developers in Brazil. You’re winning. You start creating iterations and realize that …

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User Experience & Interface enhancements

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User Experience & Interface enhancementsAgile Bench, Features

by Mark Mansour on June 22, 2012 with 0 comments

We’re never content with how Agile Bench works, so Ashlee Riordan ran a usability session where we had you, our users, poke and prod Agile Bench to help flush out those UX quirks. We’ve addressed a bunch of these issues, both big and small.  We wanted to quickly go through the big items here. Navigation …

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Are you still using Email to run your project!?

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Are you still using Email to run your project!?Agile, Agile Bench

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Max and Kit are being to subjected to project management via email.  Sure you can make it work if you force it, but why would you? Full Article About Mark MansourMark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.Mail …

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Mark is the Founder of Agile Bench. Mark has distilled 15 years of experience delivering software projects into Agile Bench to make your life easier.

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