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The Opinionated Guide To The YOW! Conference

Mark Mansour — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:01:58 +0000

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.

Are they YOW! attendees or The Bondi Hipsters?

We’ve trawled through the speaker bios, read their web pages and cut to the chase to help you decide on what to see at YOW. So we present to you our

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Agile Bench at Microsoft’s Tech Ed Australia

Mark Mansour — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:49:13 +0000

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).

Make your story wall prettier with beautiful card covers

Mark Mansour — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:03:56 +0000

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 title, whether it is blocked, cost estimates and who is assigned to the item.

We’re continuously improving our product so we weren’t content sitting still on our lovely story wall. So

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Email Notifications

Mark Mansour — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:14:24 +0000

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.

Mercury – The Messenger

It’s a fine line between letting your team know what’s going on and sending them useless emails that just clog up their inbox. For this reason we don’t just email the entire team of a change, only those that actually want to know what has happened

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Agile Books – There is so much to learn

Mark Mansour — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 23:46:59 +0000

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.

This cute dog loves reading agile books

We’ve broken the books into the following categories:

Introduction to Agile
Software Development Practices
Project Management Practices
Requirements Management
Change Management
People
Other Lists.

Go on and check out our list of books. Oh, and if you think we’ve left a must read book from the list

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Lean, Agile, Systems Thinking Conference

Mark Mansour — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:08:59 +0000

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 Ed have given our local talent a platform on which to showcase the amazing things the speakers have learnt whilst on

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10 Agile Bloggers You Should Know About, But Don’t

Mark Mansour — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:50:53 +0000

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 and should start paying attention to. Not everyone on our list blogs regularly, but when they do you should listen. So, we present to you “10 agile bloggers you should know about, but don’t.” (catchy eh?)

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Time zones and your distributed agile teams

Mark Mansour — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:11:06 +0000

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.

Time zones are needed for your distributed agile teams

You start creating iterations and realize that you’re not sure when your iteration starts?

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User Experience & Interface enhancements

Mark Mansour — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:09:51 +0000

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.

Deep in contemplation

A wall full of stickies. So many ideas!

We’ve addressed a bunch of these issues, both big and small. We wanted to quickly go through the big items here.

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Are you still using Email to run your project!?

Mark Mansour — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:03:11 +0000

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?

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