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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Better agile planning with projected iterations
April 13th, 2012 · No Comments · Agile, Agile Bench
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Features – the categorization of stories
November 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Agile Bench, Features
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
Does Agile Software Development Prevent Rounded Products?
June 8th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Agile, Agile Bench, Product Development
On Saturday the Agile Bench team attended Product Camp Sydney. The Brainmates crew did a spectacular job getting the whole event together and promoting it so well that close to 100 people attended. My favourite part was that everyone participated, the feeling was relaxed and most importantly, it was fun. I was fortunate enough to rack [...]
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Your workflow, your way for your agile project
June 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Agile Bench, Features
We all have jobs to do. In agile project management we call these work items stories, bugs, chores (or technical tasks), epics, features and many other variations. Despite the range of work item names, they all locally fit into three states: to do in progress done The original version of Agile Bench has this encoded [...]
A Series Of Updates – Story Wall
May 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Agile Bench, Product Development
We’ve been very busy at Agile Bench HQ but we’ve also been very quiet. Over the last few months we’ve put a significant amount of effort into providing a Story Wall interface. We’ve had many of our customers request an interface that resembles a physical story wall with cards and today we’re providing it. Please [...]
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Mark Mansour, Agile Bench CEO on Global Product Management Talk
March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Agile Bench
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 [...]
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December 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Agile Bench, Features
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 [...]
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Introducing the Agile Bench API
October 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Agile, Agile Bench, Technology
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 [...]
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Getting Started with Agile Bench
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Agile Bench, Education, External Videos
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 [...]
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Importing and Exporting your data
February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Agile Bench, Features
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 [...]
