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Its the Volatility That Will Kill You

Volatility is what Lite Tracker uses to measure the consistency of your team’s work output. You can use that number to help you estimate the first approximation to answer the eternal question, “Will I make the deadline?” One fine day at the office… You’ve scoped out 100 points

Updates

2013 Tracker Update: New Features, New API, New Design

January has gone by quickly! Hopefully the new year is already off to a great start for you and your entire team. I’d like to share what we’ve been up to recently, and give you a preview of what to expect in 2013. The big picture To put

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Tracker Ecosystem: CloudWork

With all these APIs floating around, don’t you sometimes wish that apps would just talk to each other and keep us humans out of it? We’re not there yet, but we’re getting close with CloudWork. It’s so straightforward I feel it’s something the Hulk might

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Tracker and Wazoku Webinar

Last month we introduced an exciting integration between Tracker and Wazoku’s awesome idea software. Wazoku is ideally suited to all you Product Managers looking for the tools to capture the best product ideas from across the business, filter and prioritize them and then in a single click create the

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Tracker Ecosystem: Redline.cc

It’s not that designers and developers don’t or can’t get along. What the team at Redline realized is that they speak a different language. So to facilitate the communication between these two life forms they created this tool. It’s simple to set up, simple to use,

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Tracker Screencast: Release Markers

What’s a release? For us at Tracker it’s a marker in your backlog that represents the most important milestones. As you can see in the screencast, creating a release marker is just like making a story. It’s that mysterious one on the end. In a conversation with

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Tracker Ecosystem: Wazoku

Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight is a fabulous new tool for Product Managers to manage and filter product development ideas. Now that they’ve integrated Tracker (We’re flattered to be their first third party integration), it’s borderline alchemical, transmuting raw ideas into stories is simple and seamless. What Wazoku

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Lite Tracker on the iPhone 5

As if you haven’t found enough excuses to buy a new iPhone 5, here’s another: Lite Tracker for iOS version 1.5.2 was released today and includes support for the iPhone 5! With the extra screen space, you’re able to see an extra story and a

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Tracker Screencast: How Many Ways Can You View a File Attachment?

This screencast covers a lot of bases. Check it out to see file attachments and full page story view in action! There are a couple ways to attach files. Drag them into an open story or press the paper clip button, and don’t forget, you can drag in multiple

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More Trouble with the CDN

We’re getting more reports this morning from customers who are unable to load Lite Tracker images/css. We were optimistic that this was resolved by CDNetworks yesterday afternoon, but clearly that seems to not be the case. We’re escalating this issue to the highest possible level, while at

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Tracker Now on CloudFront

For the third time this week, we experienced more CDN issues this morning, causing images and CSS to not load properly for users in places like Toronto, New York, and others. We did everything we could to get our CDN provider to resolve the issue, but at the same began

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Problems with Our CDN

As some of you have (painfully) noticed, we’ve been having problems with our CDN (content distribution network), causing slow or failing loads of certain Tracker “assets” including images and style sheets. This is affecting users in certain locations only: over the weekend it was South America and certain US

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Update on Todays CDN Issues

At around 3pm Pacific today, we finally received word from our CDN provider that traffic had been rerouted around the “node” causing today’s problems for users in certain locations (manifesting as slow or failed loads of images and stylesheets). The change may have taken some time to propagate to

Updates

Updated Accounts, My Projects, and Profile Pages

We’ve made a few UI changes that make it easier to navigate the world of Lite Tracker accounts, update your profile and preferences, and work with all of your projects. Navigation links We’ve moved all of the more administrative navigation links to a new dropdown in the top

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Tracker Screencast: Project Tabs

I seem to discover new things in Tracker all the time. After looking over the shoulder of someone on the dev team and seeing all their projects in “tabs” on top of their current project, I scratched my head thinking, “When do I get that!?” Is this a new feature

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In the Beginning There Was: The Sample Project

It can be stifling to jump into a big project as a new user or team member, you don’t want to accidentally delete stuff, reprioritize iterations etc. We’ve got you covered; try out a sample project. We designed this on purpose as a sandbox for people to poke

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Announcing Lite Tracker for iOS v1.5

Today we released the latest Lite Tracker iOS app to the App Store. This is a major release that includes support for creating attachments, dynamic iteration calculation, and significant performance enhancements. We have also dropped support for iOS 4.x, which less than half of one-percent of our users have

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Airbrake: The Art of Fingerpointing

Airbrake is a great tool for identifying errors generated by other apps all in one place. I guess if you’re the offending app you might call it a rat, snitch, stool pigeon or fink, but to the rest of us it’s the canary in the coal mine that

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Tracker Screencast: Shortcuts!

Shortcuts rock, make things easier, and let you move more quickly in Tracker. This screencast says it all but here’s the cheat sheet which you can get to with the ? button. The seatbelt light’s off, you’re free to move about Tracker with your keyboard! Wait till the

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Tracker Screencast: Reorganize Panels with Multiple Story Selection, Cloning Panels, and More!

When you’re running East and the project goes West, it’s time to reorganize the backlog. This can be painful but Tracker comes to the rescue with multiple story selection and cloning panels. Here’s a little cheat sheet! Dan Podsedly covered this in a blog post last year,

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Tracker on the Agile Continuum

In Tracker support, I take delight in answering support requests we get from people on teams who are thinking through the way they make software and how Tracker fits into that process. Recently, a customer asked us if Tracker can support their team’s switch from a more Scrum-focused process

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Velocity Matters

Last week, we made a slight tweak to how velocity is calculated in Lite Tracker, to handle team strength overrides in a simpler, more explainable way. As a result, if your project has an adjusted team strength in a recent iteration, you may be seeing a slightly different velocity. Details

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Screencast: The Current and the Backlog, Together Again!

Today’s screencast is about understanding workflow in Tracker, with a twist of organization. The Current panel shows you all of the stories your team is working on this week, or “iteration,” including those that are in progress, as well as stories that Tracker thinks you’re going to get

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Lite Tracker Maintenance This Friday, July 27

We’re planning to make a number of server upgrades tomorrow that require a bit of downtime. To minimize disruption, this update will happen after hours tomorrow, Friday, July 27, at 8pm US Pacific (PDT) time, and we anticipate it taking approximately one hour. Please accept our apologies in advance

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Zapier: A Nifty Matchmaker for Apps

When it comes to app match ups no-one does it cleaner than Zapier. The way I see it, they’re the bread that surrounds a PB&J sandwich. Sure the good stuff is in the middle, but you wouldn’t be able to enjoy it without getting your fingers