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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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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,