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How Pair Programming and Mob Programming Help Quickly Onboard New Software Engineers

In last week’s Build Tip, we dove into the importance of onboarding new hires, and the benefits your team and company will experience if you invest the time into doing it. Next, you might be wondering what to do if you have more than one hire? Or if you

Syntax Highlighting (Now with More Gherkin)

We’ve added syntax highlighting support for several new languages, including Gherkin, the domain-specific language consumed by the executable specification tool Cucumber (used for behavior-driven development). By default, fenced code blocks are not highlighted at all; adding a language name to the opening fence enables highlighting. Read more about Formatting

Why You Need to Invest in Onboarding a New Software Engineer and Not Expect Them to Ship Code on Their First Day

Have you recently hired a software engineer or maybe a few? Congratulations! Are you starting to worry that they haven’t shipped any code yet? Maybe they’re a bad hire… Seems kinda harsh to think someone is a bad hire if they haven’t shipped code in their first

How to Integrate Testing into an Agile Workflow with the PractiTest and Lite Tracker Integration

No one can doubt that today, most companies and industries already firmly embrace agile for their planning, development, and operations processes. But one of the last questions that remains unanswered when moving to agile is, “What to do with testing?” To put it simply, organizations do not really know how,

Tiny Icon, Much Passion!

Tracker recently experimented with our browser tab favicon, with the primary purpose of introducing a new feature to show if you have unread in-app notifications. While doing so, we also altered the look of the icon and Tracker logo. Wow, did we ever receive passionate feedback about that! We definitely

Calling All TUGboat Captains

OK, not really, but hopefully that caught your attention! We’re starting a virtual Tracker User Group (TUG for short) and you’re invited to join the first online meeting on Tuesday, May 8. We’ll survey topic ideas ahead of time and vote on which ones to discuss at

Product Estimates: Think Doing Hourly Estimates For User Stories Is Crazy?

We began this month with a Build episode where we exposed all the aftershocks of using current product management methodologies to estimate user stories. Then in last week’s episode, we dove into Hiten Shah’s new EAT approach, which boils down to doing hourly estimates. Don’t worry if

Product Estimates: Why You Should Try Estimating User Stories Using Hiten Shah’s New EAT Method

I don’t know about you but I hate kale—that stupid leafy green vegetable with the ANDI score of 1000. It’s really hard to chew, and any time I see it on a menu, I skip it! But I get there are a lot of kale converts who

Starting Your Team on the Right Foot with Team Chartering

One of the best things that you can do to help your team deliver great products is to make sure your entire team is starting off on the right foot. A great way to do this is by creating a team charter, which is a document that formally describes how

Product Estimates: Why It’s Hard to Provide Accurate Product Estimates Under Most Popular Product Management Methodologies

What’s probably the most popular and frustrating question you’ve come across when building a product: “How long do you think it will take to do task x?” It’s frustrating on so many levels. First, we need to produce an “accurate” estimate. If it’s off, there goes