productivity 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
Community Why Time Tracking is the Secret Sauce for Agile Teams This guest post is from Kat Boogaard of Toggl, an online time-tracking tool that allows users to track the time spent on various projects and analyze productivity. When it comes to agile software development and time tracking, people seem to fall into two totally different camps. There are those who
Community Case Study: TINT With clients as diverse as Wimbledon, Krispy Kreme, and Bad Girls Club, TINT is reimagining how companies present their social media content. From their charming offices in San Francisco’s Mission district, we talked with CTO Nikhil Aitharaju about how the content-marketing platform got started, the evolution of social media,
Community Case Study: ZOLA Electric ZOLA Electric is on a mission to make distributed renewable energy accessible for all. They know that clean, affordable, reliable solar energy improves education, health, employment and environmental outcomes. ZOLA Electric is a for profit social enterprise because they recognise that responsible business is the best model to maximise the
Community Case Study: Whole Whale After spending his earlier years working client-side at nonprofits, George Weiner decided that he wanted to direct his time and talent toward helping nonprofits make the best use of technology to better achieve their aims. That led to the creation of Whole Whale. “We’re a social impact tech company
Community Case Study: Humana Humana knows a thing or two about transformation. From its inception in 1961 as a nursing home company, through its period owning and running hospitals in the seventies and early eighties, the company founded by David Jones and Wendell Cherry has made a habit of reinventing itself. Now they are
productivity A Commitment is Not a Guarantee If your team uses Scrum as a development process, the team decides which of the next most important items it can complete by the end of the iteration. However, this “commitment” is often used to hold the team accountable for the amount of work that will be shipped by the
Community Tracker Meetup in San Francisco Attention Bay Area Tracker users! As you’ve probably noticed over the last couple of weeks, we’re back in action from a long winter of rebuilding Tracker from the ground up and have some new features out. There’s much more to come, and we’d love to have
productivity How Gov.UK Keeps Calm and Carries on with Tracker The courageous folk working on the GOV.UK website (an experimental “beta” replacement for Directgov and the first step towards a single government website) have regularly written about their experience and their blog is a worthwhile read. Their most recent article Delivering Inside Government, posted by Peter Herlihy, offers great
Community Lite Tracker Customer Profile: Mavenlink This is the first of regular featured Lite Tracker customer profiles. If you’d like to share your own, let us know! What does your company do? Mavenlink is a SaaS application that allows consultants and their clients to manage the full lifecycle of their projects together in one place.
Community Lite Tracker User Group Meetup in NYC on Oct 19 Thanks to everyone who came out to the Lite Tracker user group meetup in SF last week, we really enjoyed meeting everyone and the great 2+ hour discussion. Next up is New York City! We just scheduled the NY.TUG meetup for Wednesday, October 19, at 6:30pm, in the
Community SF.TUG Meetup in SF on Sep 28—Epics and More! The next San Francisco Tracker User Group (SF.TUG) meetup will be on Wednesday, September 28, at 6:30pm, in the Pivotal Labs office in San Francisco. If you’re new to Tracker, or could use a refresher, this is your chance to get an introduction. It’s also a
Community Chicago Tracker Users Group (CHI.TUG) Meetup on July 22 We’re forming a Tracker User Group in the windy city, and the first meetup is scheduled for July 22, at the Hashrocket Chicago office. I’ll be there to talk about the concepts and history behind Tracker, our experience with it, and will give a demo to those that
Community July 1 NY.TUG Meetup The next scheduled meeting of the New York Tracker Users Group (NY.TUG) will be on July 1, at the Pivotal Labs New York office. We will be giving an overview of the idea behind Lite Tracker and the common features. Based on time and interest, we’ll also go
Community SF.TUG, December 2009 Edition Yesterday we held a TUG over lunchtime at our San Francisco offices. The subject was Tracker 101. Thanks to all those who came; some good questions came up, and we hope you found it useful! Originally published here. Originally published by: Edward Hieatt.
Community SF.TUG: Lite Tracker 101 Perhaps you have heard about Lite Tracker but you don’t know if it’s a good fit for your organization. Perhaps you are a new user with some questions about how best to use the tool. Perhaps you’ve been using Tracker for a while but are curious about
Community San Francisco Tracker Users Group Meeting on June 24 We’ve launched a Tracker Users Group in San Francisco, and the second meetup is on June 24th at 6:30pm at the Pivotal Labs office on Market St. This second meetup will include a demo for new users; a rundown of the new features rolled out last night and
Community First New York Tracker Users Group Meetup on Jun 30 We’re starting a Tracker Users Group in New York, and the first meetup is on Jun 30, at 6:30pm, at the Pivotal Labs office on Chambers St. Click the link below to become a member of the group and RSVP. We hope to see you there! Originally published