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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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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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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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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Keyboard Shortcuts – from Novice to Ninja!

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Keyboard Shortcuts – from Novice to Ninja!Features

by Mark Mansour on November 22, 2011 with 0 comments

I use Google Mail (GMail) a lot.  In the past, I’d hunt and peck with my mouse to read a new email and archive it, to move between folder and to tag items.  When I learnt about keyboard shortcuts my life changed for the better. To truly be productive with an app, you need to …

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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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Your workflow, your way for your agile project

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Your workflow, your way for your agile projectAgile Bench, Features

by Mark Mansour on June 6, 2011 with 1 comments

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 …

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Personalize how you look on Agile Bench

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Personalize how you look on Agile BenchAgile Bench, Features

by Mark Mansour on December 22, 2010 with 0 comments

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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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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Importing and Exporting your dataAgile Bench, Features

by Mark Mansour on February 7, 2010 with 0 comments

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 …

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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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