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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.