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Updates

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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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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How to Use Blocking and Tackling for a Great Iteration Planning Meeting Every Time

We’ve all had that iteration planning meeting. Your team spent the entire session arguing over which stories to include in the next iteration and you never even made it to sizing. By the time the session was over, you were no closer to having the next iteration planned and

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The Small-Batch Approach to Validating Your Business Model

“I love the idea. Let me know when the product is ready, and I will buy it.” —Your customer For many product teams, that sentence sounds really good. The team feels that it validates their assumption, and it encourages them to continue building the product. But that feeling can be

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Product Stack Webinar: Product Management’s Role in a Modern Cross-Functional Team

In an increasingly competitive landscape, companies look for every advantage possible to deliver products faster, safer, and smarter. Cross-functional teams bring together not only coding, quality, and design disciplines into a single functioning unit, but also product management, which plays a key role. So what does that role look like

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Customizing Your Tracker Experience

Tracker’s interface is designed to provide a customizable experience to suit the needs of a variety of team members. This post will help ensure you’re getting the most out of Tracker, with features such as resizing and rearranging panels, cloning panels, splitting/combining Current and Backlog, pinned searches,

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Getting Started With Agile: Delivering Real Value to Your Users

Welcome back to our Getting Started With Agile series, where we’re diving deep into the underlying values and concepts of the leading agile approaches to help you understand how you can achieve true agility with your teams. In the last installment, we learned why agile emphasizes the people who

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New Story Description Templates: Faster, Better, and More Consistent Story Descriptions!

Many of us struggle to find just the right amount of detail to include in our user stories. There’s some happy medium between a one-line title with no description and a novella. When you need to add several stories for a new feature, or you’ve got several bugs

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Syntax Highlighting (Now with More Gherkin)

We’ve added syntax highlighting support for several new languages, including Gherkin, the domain-specific language consumed by the executable specification tool Cucumber (used for behavior-driven development). By default, fenced code blocks are not highlighted at all; adding a language name to the opening fence enables highlighting. Read more about Formatting

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How to Integrate Testing into an Agile Workflow with the PractiTest and Lite Tracker Integration

No one can doubt that today, most companies and industries already firmly embrace agile for their planning, development, and operations processes. But one of the last questions that remains unanswered when moving to agile is, “What to do with testing?” To put it simply, organizations do not really know how,

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Tiny Icon, Much Passion!

Tracker recently experimented with our browser tab favicon, with the primary purpose of introducing a new feature to show if you have unread in-app notifications. While doing so, we also altered the look of the icon and Tracker logo. Wow, did we ever receive passionate feedback about that! We definitely

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Starting Your Team on the Right Foot with Team Chartering

One of the best things that you can do to help your team deliver great products is to make sure your entire team is starting off on the right foot. A great way to do this is by creating a team charter, which is a document that formally describes how

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Discovering Tracker: Search

Among its other bells, whistles, and doo-dads, Tracker provides powerful search capability to quickly find what you need. You can learn the many available search keywords and operators for filtering just the stories and epics you want in our Help Center. What you may not have discovered yet are all

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Manage Your Collaborators with the Account Members Report

Tracker has long provided API access to its core functionality, including stories, projects, account information, and more. We recognize, though, that not everyone has the time or resources to use the product this way. In this spirit, we’ve created the Account Members report! This report allows account admins and

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How to INVEST in Your User Stories

If you’re a product manager, user stories are a critical part of how you interact with your team. Nothing trumps a face-to-face conversation, but the key to starting that conversation is a good story. For example, imagine that your team is building an e-commerce site that enables college students

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Moving Stories with the Keyboard

Moving a story to change its priority has been a fundamental feature in Lite Tracker. For far too long, that functionality has been limited to using a mouse. Those days are over! With our latest update, when a story card has focus, you can now select the story to move

Integrations

Tracker’s New and Improved GitHub Integration

Every member of a software team needs to look at the codebase at one point or another—to see what features have commits associated with them, what the status of the test suite is, or what branch you need to check out. We work every day to improve your product

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Discovering Tracker: Cloning Data and Task Templates

Did you know that you can clone your stories and panels in Tracker to make getting things done faster and easier? Or that you can export/import project data via CSV to essentially clone an entire Tracker project? If this is news to you, then we have just the thing:

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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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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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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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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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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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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