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Startup Funding: What It’s Going to Take to Get That First Check From an Investor

All this month, we’ve been exploring how startup fundraising is changing and why it’s going to continue to change in 2018. We started off by talking about why you don’t want to reach out to an investor when you just have an idea, how to evaluate if

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Getting Started With Agile: Growing Great Agile Teams

In the first installment of our series helping you get back to basics with agile, we learned why the founders of agile felt that creating a new set of approaches was necessary in the first place. In this installment, we’ll begin diving into the four foundational values of the

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Preview Party: Previewing Markdown Before Posting

Tracker customers have been asking for Markdown previews for a while, and we’re excited to make good on that request. The latest update debuts exactly that—an easy and convenient way to preview your Markdown in story descriptions and comments before you post them. You’ll notice a Preview

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Startup Funding: Why Investors Keep Saying 'No' to Your Big Idea

Think you’re onto something big, and surprised you’re receiving so many noes from investors? It can really make you second-guess yourself, and shake your confidence…but it shouldn’t! Receiving a lot of noes is natural. You may be tempted to listen to the feedback after being rejected

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Startup Funding: When It Does and Doesn’t Make Sense to Fundraise for Your Startup

Ready for more myth busting around startup funding? Let’s get to it then! Last week, I shared a number of reasons you should share care about fundraising, whether you’re a founder or startup employee. Here they are again, and in the Build episode we talked about why it’

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Changing Group Behavior with Small Actions: Inclusion Thing of the Week

Combating bias and promoting inclusion in the workplace is something we can all agree needs to happen. The question, then, is how to make progress on it? The way I see it, there are two directions from which change can come: from the top or from the bottom. Changes from

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Startup Funding: How Fundraising Will Impact You in 2018—Whether You Are a Startup Founder or Employee

It’s the start of a new year, which is an exciting time all around. You’re probably excited about new opportunities, starting a company, or building product in 2018! While I’m all for optimism, I’ve also gotta stay true to them theme of Build: debunking myths and

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How Product Teams Integrate Lite Tracker with Trello to Boost Productivity

Collaboration and sharing information with teammates is essential to successful product management. You wouldn’t rely solely on a designer to prioritize your next sprint, would you? Just like certain teammates on your product team have certain specialities, so do the tools you use throughout your product management process. You

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Tracker Officially Joins G Suite SAML Apps Catalog

We’re excited to announce that Lite Tracker has been added as a supported application in G Suite SAML SSO Pre integrated apps catalog! SAML single-sign-on (SSO) allows you and your team to access Tracker (and all your other apps) exclusively through your SSO identity provider (such as G Suite)

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Can Your Iteration Length Change in the Middle of Your Project?

Most agile teams work in iterations, especially those teams that follow a cadenced approach, such as scrum. And why not, since an iteration-based approach provides many advantages to teams. But while there’s little argument concerning the value of iterations, finding the right iteration length for a team is no

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How to Succeed in Your First Remote Working Position

I don’t know about you, but I cringe at the thought of having to commute. The traffic, road rage, not to mention having to find parking—it was enough to make me throw in the towel seven years ago! Since then I have been managing remote teams around the

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Grooming Your Backlog: Skills Every Product Manager Should Master

We hosted our final Product Stack webinar of the year last week, “Getting in Shape for 2018: Product Management Best Practices.” You can watch the full video below, and join the conversation to stay informed about upcoming events in the new year. As always, the Q&A portion brought

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Keeping Your Team on Track

Lately, I’ve seen a common antipattern arise across several different agile teams. The pattern usually begins likes this: a team forecasts a certain number of points per iteration and regularly completes that same number. In fact, if you were to plot the team’s hit rate (or number of

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How to Get Your Teammates to Adopt Product Design Sprints

Did you share last week’s Build episode on product design sprints with your teammates? Wait! Give me two chances to guess the outcome: * You did share it and you faced some pushback? Well, kudos to you for putting it out there! * Or maybe you didn’t because you were

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How a Product Design Sprint Fast-Tracks Testing Your Ideas

How many times have you and your team spent countless hours building, bug fixing, and finally releasing a new feature only to hear feedback from a customer that it’s not what they wanted? Or worse, they don’t say anything. Why? Because they aren’t even using the new

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Android v2.1: Tablets and Profile Photos

We’ve updated the Tracker Android app to include profile photos and better support for tablets. Version 2.1 is available on Google Play right this very moment. That’s right, profile photos are everywhere! Look around you: is that a profile photo? Probably! Do not taunt the profile photo.

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Free eBook Download of Present! A Techie's Guide to Public Speaking

As a team that engages in our fair share of presentations, we know how important it is to nail it, so we’re always looking for ways to improve our game. That’s why we’re extremely happy to be able to share valuable tips with our readers by offering

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Getting Started With Agile: Understanding the Need for Agile

If you’re a regular follower of the Lite Tracker blog, then you’ve probably noticed that we spend a large portion of our time talking about agile methods. Topics like user stories, iterations, and collaborative teams are the norm here, along with anything else that orbits the sphere of

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What is Product Debt and Why You Need to Prioritize Paying It Down

Confession time! As an engineer and founder who is eager to ship and get a product out into the hands of customers, I’ll admit there have been not one but more than a handful of times when I’ve deprioritized usability and visual design in favor of shipping a

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Should You Worry About Your Skills Getting Rusty?

I don’t know about you, but before I decided to take on my first leadership role, I agonized over it for months! I worried that as an engineer, the coding skills that I had taken years to learn and hone would get rusty. And I wasn’t alone in

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So You Want to Be a Product Manager, But Don't Know Where to Start

The world of tech is so, so cool. And bonus—it’s got a role that is both analytical and creative. How can someone new start working towards a product manager position? I often tell my product management students that I’m happy to stay after class to chat and

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What Stops Us From Taking a Leadership Role

Have you been in your current role for a while, and are eager to try something new? Perhaps you’ve thought about transitioning from being an individual contributor into a leadership role, but you’re not sure if it’s the right move for you? You might worry about being

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What to Do Before You Redesign Your Product

A redesign is a great way to reinvent your brand, get a leg up on the competition, and revisit those clunky and outdated workflows. While we may be eager to jump right in, we have to be careful about what is actually going to help us accomplish our business goals.

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Embracing Evil with Evil User Stories

If you’re like most product managers, you probably have a backlog full of user stories representing just what you’d like to see your best users do with your product. You have stories representing how they’ll get the most out of every feature, how they’ll find every

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Why the Last 20% of a Project is the Hardest to Get Through

All this month on Build, we’ve been talking about project management. First, we shared two ground rules you need to set for yourself to get through a software project successfully, and in the last episode, we shared strategies for handling new ideas and unexpected challenges that may derail your