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Introducing Story Blockers

As the old proverb goes, “Even careful planning and good intentions can’t always prevent surprise impediments showing up in your backlog.” Old-timey proverb writers knew better than anyone the challenge of, say, starting a story only to realize it’s missing design assets, waiting on a response to a

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Product Stack Denver—Panel

As promised, here is video of the panel discussion from our Product Stack event in Denver last week, emceed by Jay Zeschin, and featuring Jim Semick of ProductPlan, Dan Podsedly of Tracker, Jess Sherlock of GoSpotCheck, Aaron Duke of CirrusMD, and Kevin Steigerwald of Notion. Product Stack Denver: Panel from

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Product Stack Denver—Keynote

Our first Product Stack event in Denver was a huge success! A large crowd of PMs and the PM-curious came out for a keynote from Jay Zeschin, CTO of Ello, as well as the full panel discussion. (There may have been some mingling and boozing as well; unconfirmed.) Here’s

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Updates to Story Activity

When you’re working with your team in Tracker, discussions can move quickly and cover a lot of ground. They evolve as people ask questions about the requirements of a story, share updates on their work, sync their git commits, add attachments, and more. As the team discussion evolves, the

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How to Change Careers Later in Life and Transition Into a Technical Role

There are a lot of people who want to change their career later in life. They want to do more challenging work, earn more money, and have a better lifestyle. Given the growing need of technical talent in the US, it would seem like a technical career would be a

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The Daily Standup is a Planning Meeting—Not a Status Meeting

The Daily Standup is a core practice of successful teams and one of the first practices that most teams adopt as they seek to improve their collaboration. But despite its prominence, many teams struggle to grasp the point of this event. For example, let’s look at a typical Daily

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Three Ways Product Managers Can Help with a Great Iteration Planning Meeting

A great iteration planning meeting (IPM) sets the tone for the entire iteration. Your team leaves the session energized, excited, and with a clear picture of how to hit the ground running in the new iteration. But, what if things don’t go as well as you’d hoped? Then

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Three Panel Tips That Will Make Your Work More Visible

One of the main reasons people enjoy and stick with Tracker is that at heart, we’re a relatively straightforward to-do app for software teams. By keeping the features you need to get your job done—and only the features you need—at the forefront of the app, we ensure

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The Fastest-Growing Companies Start Really Slowly

If your company doesn’t produce a hockey stick graph for growth by the end of the first year, you’ve done something wrong. Don’t expect it to become one of the fastest-growing companies, just shut it down! Seems drastic, no? Sadly, that’s what many founders are led

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Introducing Tracker Enterprise

Lite Tracker powers modern software teams that are highly collaborative, cross-functional, and which ship continuously. It’s given countless companies the predictability and transparency they’ve needed to transform their development process and stay competitive in a world full of disruption. And now we’re excited to introduce Tracker Enterprise,

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Product Stack Denver—An Event for PMs

We’re bringing the Product Stack to the mile-high city on May 2! Don’t miss this exciting product management event! The Product Stack is a coalition of product manager allies—from ProductPlan, Lite Tracker, and Notion—focused on helping PMs build customer-centric products through successful product planning, more efficient

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Case Study: 729 Solutions

729 Solutions originally began as a digital agency in the dot-com years, but under President and CEO/CTO Rob Fife, it’s morphed into a boutique agile shop that provides front-end UX/design and backend help to startups and Fortune 500 companies. We spoke with Fife and Director of Business

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New Project Permissions

Over the years, we’ve received a lot of feedback from users about the difficulty of joining projects. Previously, only Project Owners or Account Admins could add users to a project, which put the burden of managing the project memberships of many on just a few users. This sometimes led

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Case Study: Guild Education

From their offices in Denver, CO, Guild Education partners with companies nationwide to expand the educational opportunities offered as part of their benefits package. Working with nonprofit universities that specialize in supporting working adults, Guild offers classes, programs, and degrees intended to help employees grow in their career. We spoke

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Look Out 🌎—Emoji Are Here

Emoji have been one our most requested features, eliciting a fair share of comments on social media. There were comments of despair: And pleas for mercy: Not to mention polite disbelief: Which makes us extra pleased to announce native emoji support for Lite Tracker. 🎉 What are native emoji? 🤔 They are

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Using Systrace and Profile GPU Rendering to Reduce Jank in the Tracker Android App

When the Tracker Team noticed jank while using the new and updated Android application, we straight away went looking for something like Chrome’s Timeline tool. For Android, that tool is Systrace. We also used Android’s native Profile GPU Rendering feature to get a more in-depth picture of the

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Experience Report: GitHub Flow and Pivotal Web Services

A few of us on the Tracker team started to explore different development processes with Tracker since we weren’t really satisfied with how our current development and release processes were aligned. Our process used to look something like this: * Step 1: Developer starts a story. * Step 2: Developer makes

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Using Elm in Production at Lite Tracker

Here at Lite Tracker, we have a large product with many pieces in many different tech stacks—some are in Rails RJS, some are plain jQuery, a lot is Backbone, and some is React. We experimented with Redux for a while, and though the architecture was good, it added too

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Re-Engineering the Lite Tracker Android App

On the Tracker team, “rewrite” has come to be a dirty word. With a legacy system that entails as many features as we offer, building from the ground up always takes 4x longer than expected. However, sometimes a codebase reaches a state where it’s the only option, and about

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Android v1.0 is Out!

After months of work and testing, we’re excited to announce the release of v1.0 of the Lite Tracker Android app! The app has been re-engineered from the ground up, and shaped by your feedback. The fuller version of the app means that you can not only view your

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Case Study: SenseGrow

Since 2014, SenseGrow has been providing software that allows their customers to connect their products to the Internet of Things. We spoke with Co-Founder and CEO Atindra Chandel about productivity, shaping agile processes to work best for his team, and their evaluation matrix. Thank you for talking with us. How

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Wrapping Up 2016 and Looking Ahead

Thank you for a great year! As we head into the sunset of 2016, we’d like to look back at what’s been happening with Tracker, and share a peek at the not-so-mysterious future. Making Tracker work better for larger teams has been a primary goal this year. This

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Search and Favorite Projects on the New Dashboard

We’ve made some updates to our Dashboard! Along with a cleaner, more modern design, we’ve given you the ability to search for and favorite your projects. This is useful for those of you who have accumulated tens or hundreds of projects over the years but only care about

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Tying Roadmap Strategy to Agile Planning

This guest post is from Jim Semick, the founder of ProductPlan, roadmap software for product teams. Jim has validated and launched several new products including AppFolio, GoToMyPC, and GoToMeeting. Jim is a frequent speaker on new product development. Want to read more? Read his product management blog posts. Follow him

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How to Integrate Kanban with Tracker

Kanban boards are a popular development tool that allow teams to visualize their projects’ workflow, with the goal of making progress clear to team members and stakeholders alike. They also foster an environment of continual improvement, which is partly why many software delivery teams use Kanban to manage their product