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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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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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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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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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

by Mark Mansour on with 0 comments

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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I’m a developer, don’t make me use your tool

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I’m a developer, don’t make me use your toolAgile Bench, Technology

by Mark Mansour on June 13, 2012 with 2 comments

You’re a good manager. You’ve thought about the pros and cons of what you want to build, you’ve put them into a tool (hopefully Agile Bench) but your devs just ignore it. They’re busy writing code, testing it, making sure it works in all browsers – they don’t want to log into your stinking tool, …

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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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Better agile planning with projected iterations

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Better agile planning with projected iterationsAgile, Agile Bench

by Mark Mansour on April 13, 2012 with 0 comments

We see a lot of deep backlogs. Teams that practice agile planning usually have a well groomed backlog towards the top and the bottom of the backlog is, well, closer to a list of ideas than actual stories. But that’s ok! Project planners (like the CEO of a small company, the product manager or technical lead) …

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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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Features – the categorization of stories

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Features – the categorization of storiesAgile Bench, Features

by Mark Mansour on November 25, 2011 with 0 comments

Agile Bench has added the “Features” feature as a way of categorizing stories. Each story can now belong to a feature allowing you to break your stories into business oriented chunks

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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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