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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A highly complex and uncertain environment requires decision making to be distributed to the team so that teams can dynamically adapt to new situations

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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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