Iteration planning

Create upcoming iterations, move stories from the backlog or create them straight into an iteration through the clean and easy planning interface. Prioritize your work by dragging and dropping stories up and down the iteration, then allocate your stories to one or more developers perfect for pair programming.

Backlog management

Manage your backlog, prioritise you stories, create placeholders for future ideas and get your product team involved in defining what should be developed in future iterations.

Flexible workflow

Start, complete or abandon your stories within an iteration. You don’t need to jump from one state to another in a regimented order preordained by us, we know how projects really work.

Story management

Create stories through our quick entry widget then come back later and add more detail or fill in your estimate for development effort. You can categorise stores into epics, stories, chores or bugs. You can even create stories for the backlog from any iteration screen, perfect for that idea that jumps into your brain at an inappropriate time.

Blockers

When you have an issue blocking the delivery of a story just check a box, write a comment and the team will have visibility of your problem. Hopefully reducing the time to find a fix.

Activity management

See what activities you’ve been assigned in the current iteration, which ones are blocked and which ones your team have commented on.

Real time activity stream

Key activities on Agile Bench are shown on the activity stream whether its creating a new story, starting an iteration or highlighting an issue, your team will be able to see what is happening when it happens.

Comments

If you have a blocker on a story or just need to understand a certain view point better, post a comment just like you would do on a blog post and wait for a reply or go and chase the owner of the story, at least you point is noted down for your next stand up.

Reports and dashboards

Keep up to date with your project by viewing the iteration status report and the project dashboard, check out your velocity, number of stories planned, completed or blocked, look at a summary of your iterations or the size of your backlog.

Charts

Find out quickly how well your tracking by looking at your burn down chart or check your velocity throughout the project on the velocity chart.