Category Archives: Inside VersionOne

Let VersionOne Links Support the Weight of Understanding in Agile Software Development

In VersionOne every asset has a set of relationships that can be set up between assets using the VersionOne Links feature – for instance, when you need to link a story to its tasks and acceptance tests within your agile software development project. Continue reading

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Using Templates to Help with Sprint Planning

Templates aren’t just for Product Owners. Teams can also copy tasks and tests from templates during sprint planning to cut down on missing tasks and manual entry. It’s sort of a checklist to make sure you’ve addressed the key work necessary, but can still add unique tasks when appropriate. Continue reading

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Using the VersionOne Project Navigator to Avoid the Giant Project Tree

As the world of agile grows, so do the sizes of organizations that have scaled their efforts. As a result, some people are finding it difficult to navigate through a large agile Project Tree in VersionOne. Our Spring ’11 Release addressed this with the inclusion of a VersionOne Project Navigator, which has moved navigation control out of the collapsible-display area and into. This allows users to conveniently switch projects from anywhere within the application, even with the left-hand side collapsed. Here are some tips on using the VersionOne Project Navigator.
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VersionOne’s New UI – the Challenge of Web Apps

If you’ve been following along at home you know we just pushed out a brand new UI with our latest release. It’s been an arduous road these past few months but we are quite proud of the results. As VersionOne’s … Continue reading

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Taking your Retrospectives from mediocre to magnificent

In the 2nd part of this Retrospectives series, we take a look at VersionOne’s ability to capture important information from one of the most important events of Agile. Continue reading

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Agile 2011: Reflections From The Booth

I noticed a common theme during the Agile 2011 Conference. While helping to work the VersionOne booth in my official role as part of the illustrious booth babe team, there were many compliments on the new UI, inquiries about coveted … Continue reading

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My StoryBoard Life

As a tester, I live on the Storyboard. It’s my go-to page in VersionOne. I use it to keep up with team progress when I’m not in the team room, and I also use it to organize my own work. … Continue reading

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Regress (ion Tests)

No, I’m not going to start singing the Sesame Street jingle, “One of these things is not like the other…One of these things just doesn’t belong”. When ‘Regress’ refers to regression tests in VersionOne, then surprisingly, the terms all represent … Continue reading

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Sprint Planning Time Savers 201

Continuing the theme of saving time during Sprint Planning from the Time Savers 101 post, lets take it a little further… Ok, so I have a template…and I know how to copy a task to a story from the template. … Continue reading

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Does VersionOne use VersionOne?

Do you ever wonder if software vendors really “eat their own cooking?” At VersionOne, we do and we’ve begun a video series showing you how we do. Each video is presented by one or more subject matter experts from within … Continue reading

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