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Prioritizing Across the Themes in Your Product

Prioritizing a single set of work for your team can be hard; prioritizing work across multiple sets of work can be nearly impossible. As a product matures, product managers often find themselves contending with multiple themes of work in their product backlog. This can happen as a product begins to

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Three Techniques to Improve How You Explain Technical Concepts to a Lay Audience and Be Understood

In last week’s Build episode, we talked about why if somebody doesn’t understand your explanation for a technical concept, it’s not OK to just tell them to look it up or Google it. We also covered the effects of doing this, the main one being that you

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In-App Notifications: The Revamp!

We’ve received quite a bit of feedback from our customers regarding how we can make notifications better serve you—particularly, the in-app notifications. Based on your suggestions, we’ve made some changes to make the dropdown more readable/scannable and generally more useful. These changes include an overhaul to

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Why Doing a Bad Job of Explaining Technical Concepts Hurts Our Credibility

Confession time… A few years ago when someone asked me to explain a technical concept and I couldn’t successfully get through to them or didn’t have time, I would send them this link. ;) And it seemed funny the first couple of times I did it. It wasn’t

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Next TUG Meeting: October 30

The next virtual Tracker User Group (TUG for short) online meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 30, at 10 am PDT! Please join us if you can—it doesn’t matter if you’re a novice user or a master Tracker—this will be a great opportunity to share knowledge

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Intro to Tracker Webinar: October 24

Are you a new user looking to get up to speed on Lite Tracker? We’ve got just the thing! Please join us for a free training webinar on Wednesday, October 24, at 11 am PDT. We’ll go over Tracker basics, including creating a project and adding, estimating, and

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How to Train and Retain Product Managers

All this month, we’ve been sharing best practices around hiring and interviewing product managers. If you checked out both episodes, you might be thinking: “This is a lot of work! How can we be sure we’ll end up with a stellar product manager, and that they won’t

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Using Labels and Epics to Slice Story Views in Tracker

Labels and epics are useful tools for sorting and locating stories and larger projects in Tracker. Read on to see how you can slice, dice, and julienne your stories to make them easier to sort. Tracker labels Labels are simply tags that you can associate to stories in Tracker to

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Where is My Story Deployed? (Or, "Missing Code, Offering Reward")

Hi, Tracker fans! Do you ever have conversations with folks you work with about where a story is deployed? “The story says it’s delivered but it doesn’t look like it made it to our demo server…” “Did that bug fix make it to production yet so we can

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How to Interview Product Managers

Last week, we dug into the various product manager personas, and how to go about sourcing candidates. If you missed the episode, you can check it out here. This week, we’re going to talk about another critical step when it comes to hiring product managers: interviewing. Unlike interviewing engineers

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Reacting to Comments

While doing some research recently, the Tracker Team noticed that a large number of comments in our app are simple, one-word responses. We’re talking hundreds of thousands of one- or two-word comments every single month. 👍 alone accounts for over 5000 of those! We thought it was silly to force

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Next TUG Meeting: September 19

The next virtual Tracker User Group (TUG for short) online meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 19, at 10 am PDT! Please join us if you can, it doesn’t matter if you’re a novice user or a master Tracker—this will be a great opportunity to share knowledge

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Intro to Tracker Webinar: September 26

Are you a new user looking to get up to speed on Lite Tracker? We’ve got just the thing! Please join us for a free training webinar on Wednesday, September 26, at 10 am PDT. We’ll go over Tracker basics, including creating a project and adding, estimating, and

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How to Hire Product Managers

To build a product, you need a team of engineers, designers, and the glue that keeps them together: product managers! The role of the product manager has dramatically changed over the past decade, and because it’s still a relatively new field that’s in flux, companies often struggle to

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Getting Started With Agile: Customer Collaboration Over Contract Negotiation

In this edition of our Getting Started With Agile series, we’ll continue our deep dive into the values that underlie today’s most popular agile methodologies. Having a deep understanding of these underlying values and principles will help you get the most out of your agile approach, regardless of

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Adding a Billing Email Address

You asked; we listened! The account owner can now add a separate Billing Email Address to their account. If added, all billing communications will be emailed to the Billing Email Address instead of the Account Owner’s email address. To add a Billing Email Address, an Account Owner should follow

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Discovering Tracker: Managing Story Dependencies in Tracker

Lite Tracker helps you stay on top of your story dependencies to make sure that you’re working on the right thing, at the right time. Here’s how you can make sure that you get your stories done with all the speed and coordination of an olympic synchronized swim

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Next TUG Meeting: Aug 29

The next virtual Tracker User Group (TUG for short) online meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 29! Please join us if you can, it doesn’t matter if you’re a novice user or a master Tracker—this will be a great opportunity to share knowledge and learn from each

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Intro to Tracker Webinar: August 23

Are you a new user looking to get up to speed on Lite Tracker? We’ve got just the thing! Please join us for a free training webinar on Thursday, August 23, at 1 pm PDT. We’ll go over Tracker basics, including creating a project and adding, estimating, and

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New: Custom Story Description Templates!

Tracker recently introduced story description templates that allowed users to add one of three default templates to a story description: Bug Report, User Story, and Example Mapping. Since then, we’ve received an overwhelming amount of feedback from our customers requesting the ability to create their own custom templates. Though

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How Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrencies Are Being Incorporated Into Valuable Applications That Are Making an Impact in the Market

In the last episode of Build, we debunked a number of myths related to Bitcoin, blockchain, and other cryptocurrencies. Despite all the myths and hype, these technologies have staying power in the market. But we get that you might be skeptical. So we’re dedicating today’s episode to showcasing

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Webinar with Raygun: Building Better, Faster, Stronger Software as a Team

Sometimes it’s hard to balance product delivery deadlines with tackling technical debt, or quickly build features while maintaining code quality. In this free webinar, we’ll discuss some of the challenges product managers and developers face when building software at speed within development teams. We’ll talk about some

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Dividing and Conquering: Finding the Right Size for Your Team

Your small team has been doing great. You’ve delivered significant value to your stakeholders. You’ve shown noticeable improvement in how you work together iteration after iteration. And you’ve proven to your organization that this whole “agile” thing can work. In fact, your team has done so well

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The Real Deal Behind Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Cryptocurrencies

Got a laundry list of questions that have gone unanswered when it comes to blockchain, Bitcoin, and the myriad of cryptocurrencies out there? Questions like the following: What’s going on with the boom and bust cycles? Are cryptocurrencies really here to stay? Are there really a myriad of applications

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Femgineer’s Design Roundup

Design often takes a backseat to engineering because people just want to get things to work and then ship it! It’s not until after a product is in the market that the lack of design thinking and its importance becomes obvious. Design can give a product a competitive edge