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What does it really mean to be a happy Product Manager

Let’s face it, being a Product manager is stressful. Deadlines, metrics, team dynamics, changing priorities, attention to detail, big picture thinking, oh! and backlogs that continue to grow and shame us with their mere existence. It’s also not uncommon to think we’re not doing as well as

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LambdaTest now integrates with Lite Tracker

This guest post is from Rahul Rana at LambdaTest, the fastest growing testing cloud platform that allows developers and testers to perform both automated and manual cross browser testing. LambdaTest now integrates with Lite Tracker Collaboration is vital for any long term success and the right support from our peers

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Focusing On Predictability Over Velocity

One of the challenges that organizations who are new to agile often face is a perceived loss of insight into their teams’ progress. After all, if an agile approach asks teams to forego the creation of a detailed upfront plan then how will that organization know if their teams are

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Got Opinions?

We’d love to know what you’re thinking! To that end we’d really appreciate it if you’d take the time to fill out our 20 question survey. Whether your opinions of Tracker are firmly or lightly held we value your thoughts and expertise. Most of the questions

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Deliver User Value Faster with CI/CD Integrations

Delivering user value quickly and reliably are key behaviors for businesses to succeed. As a PM or developer, it can be challenging to keep track of what features your team is delivering and when. It can be even harder to communicate progress to stakeholders who might not be in tune

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Pointing Scales: Linear or Fibonacci?

The Tracker team recently pulled some data on team analytics cut by different pointing scales. Here are the headlines: Most teams use Linear scales… But, those who use Fibonacci scales tend to have better analytics Let’s dig in a bit. Looking only at currently active projects, 54% use Linear

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A Reluctant Evangelist: or, how I learned to stop worrying and love product vision

This article originally appeared on Medium on December 10, 2019. When I was first getting into product, I was pretty wary of the old saw that a product manager should be an evangelist for the product. Every time I would hear that, all I could imagine was some smarmy guy

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Story Cycle Time Now Excludes Weekends!

The Tracker Team has been working on an exciting update that makes your team’s Story Cycle Time more representative of the work that your team is doing. This update is now live for all projects and applies to your past and future cycle times. Cycle Time In Tracker, Cycle

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Time tracking for agile software teams

This guest post is from Alla Chernets at Tmetric, an online time-tracking tool that allows users to track the time spent on various projects and analyze productivity. The first fact about time tracking that springs to mind is that it is the least exciting thing within the development cycle. Not

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Shorter Iterations are always best...and Other Lies you’ve been Told

Often teams first begin their agile journey with an iteration-based methodology, such as Scrum. This is because the dependable cycle of iterations that these methodologies impose on teams introduce a feeling a stability and predictability. However, after a team finds success with an iteration-based methodology, it’s often not long

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Measuring the Business Value of your Stories

Many agile teams have become obsessed with speed. How fast can we release? How fast can we close stories? How fast can we deliver to market? What too few fail to realize, however, is that none of this speed matters unless what the team is delivering is actually providing value

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Time Tracking with TimeCamp - How to Boost your Productivity in Lite Tracker

So you’ve probably heard about the struggles of project managers and senior developers that also need to report on the team’s efficiency during a sprint. Software developers - do you recall receiving e-mails saying: “Hey Matt, could you please fill out the timesheet for January?” Yes, I can

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What to do when Individuals are Unhappy in their own Teams...Or the Fallacy of Team Rotation

Few would argue with the benefits that can be gained from a switch to an agile approach. Agile teams enjoy more autonomy and greater fulfillment from their jobs while organizations enjoy faster time to market and and an increased ability to respond to the emerging needs of their customers and

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Introducing new Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server Integrations

Back in 2018, Lite Tracker built an integration with GitHub, making it much easier to connect your code to stories. But this didn’t help those of you who use other Source Code Management tools. That’s why we are excited to announce our new Bitbucket and Bitbucket Server integrations!

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Getting Started With Agile: Putting Agile to Work for You

Throughout our Getting Started With Agile series, we’ve dove deeply into each of the 4 main values of the agile manifesto. During this dive, we’ve unpacked not only the intent behind each value but also the underlying ideas and concepts that led to the creation of that value.

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Summertime brings new SCM integrations

Start your summer off right with new Source Code Management integrations The Tracker team has been hard at work building new Source Code Management integrations for your team to use! Now, you can visualize your development progress within Tracker using your favorite SCM. Include the story ID in your commit

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Why Traditional Reports Don't Work In An Agile Environment

We’ve all been there. You’ve started a new agile team and things are going great. Your team is working together wonderfully, your customers are thrilled to be invited into the process, and your organization is absolutely astounded by the amount of value you’ve delivered in such a

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A Case Study in Iterating Lean: Reviews

We hear it all the time: to build impactful products, follow the build-measure-learn feedback loop. But while that sounds clear in theory, it can feel very fuzzy in practice. Tracker would like to share a case study example of how we implemented this process in iterating on our recent Reviews

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The motivation behind the latest GitHub integration updates

You may have noticed some changes to our GitHub integration recently. We’d like to take a moment to explain what motivated these updates. We built our initial GitHub integration over two years ago with the intention of helping you connect Tracker stories to your code. That motivation remains the

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Getting Started With Agile: Responding to Change Over Following a Plan

Welcome back to our Getting Started with Agile series, where we’re diving deep into the values that underlie today’s most popular agile methodologies. In the last installment in this series, we discussed the value of treating your customers as collaborators, as well as how you can encourage them

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Notice of Updates to the Tracker Subprocessor List

This is a service announcement to update you about changes to the Lite Tracker subprocessor list, in compliance with the GDPR. We’ve updated the list of third party service providers who are subprocessors of Tracker data as follows: Service provider Processing they perform March 28, 2019 update:   Stripe Payment

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Managing Reviews Made Simpler!

With the release of our newest major feature (Reviews: Representing the entire team), we’ve received a record amount of feedback from users like you! Not only was this huge validation to our team that we’re providing value to our customers, we’re enormously appreciative of all the constructive

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Lite Tracker and Slack: Project Updates Just Got Easier

Tracker and Slack both help you communicate and get things done with your team. Tracker is changing how teams build software and Slack is where work communication happens. That’s why we’ve built a Lite Tracker app for Slack to help connect the work your team has prioritized with

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Using Tracker to Communicate Epic Hypothesis Statements

At Pivotal, our teams use an agile project management tool called Lite Tracker. This software enables real-time collaboration around a single, shared, prioritized backlog. A product manager uses Tracker to write fine-grained user stories using a syntax that supports our opinionated development process. Most feature stories contain a scenario and

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Spotting the Dark Matter Tasks on Your Team

Ever get the feeling that your team is working on more than what’s actually in the backlog? Even with the best laid plans, there are still many tasks that can lie between the cracks, distracting your team from the work at hand. But even though you can’t see