The Global Product Management Talk brings international product managers together with experts in their field, weekly in a twitter chat format.  Cindy F. Solomon and Adrienne Tan (brainmates) have set up a preeminent list of speakers of which we are humbled to be a part of. I’ll be “talking” with Cindy and Adrienne  on Monday …

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)

Agile Project Management is a peculiar phrase. Many people on project teams, mainly people in delivery roles, believe that traditional project management approaches and agile practices do not play well together. The argument goes that if you have a plan, then you’ve decided what to do. If you’ve decided what to do then you are …

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)

You can’t have software bugs on work that isn’t finished.

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)

We’ve made a small update before christmas that beautifies the Account Settings screen.  You now have the option to add in your name which we’ll instead of your login or email account throughout the system.  It makes everything look much nicer.  We’ve also added in your avatar picture.  We use gravatar.com avatars on our site …

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)

Stand-ups (or Daily Scrums) are a great way for the entire team to coordinate work and synchronize daily efforts. Since you have the whole team involved it is in everyone interest to keep these meetings short and valuable so that you are using everyone’s time wisely. A very common stand-up anti-pattern has each member of …

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)

Have you ever had the hankering to have your project management system integration with your version management system? Do you have a incident management system like Zen Desk or an accounting system like Xero that you’d like to tie into Agile Bench? Here is the good news! We are opening up our API and we …

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)

Learning a new tool can take some time.  Learning a new way to manage your projects should take even longer. We’ve been talking with you, our customers, and you’ve been telling us that you want more help getting started on a project.  We could write loads or documentation, or, we could just put up a …

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)

Getting your data in and out of an web based system is really important. It’s great to be in “the cloud” but you should not sacrifice control and ownership of your information. That’s why Agile Bench has both importing and exporting capabilities. Import If you are moving from another system, or just wanted to give …

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)

Agile 2009 is huge. There are 1350 people with 23 streams of talks across 2 buildings, which is pretty crazy. It is impossible to get across the entire line-up of talks so you have to be selective. Thankfully the sessions are divided by experience, persona and some more general groupings. The persona divisions are pretty …

About Mark Mansour

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.

• Mail
|
• Web
|
• Twitter
|
• LinkedIn
|
• Google+
|
• More Posts (29)