Category Archives: Product Tips & Tricks

Quick! How Do I… Set Up & Start Using VersionOne Out-of-the-Box?

VersionOne just works. Out-of-the-box. It allows for very specific configuration and customization, but when you just need to get-up-and-going, only a few things are needed to start planning and tracking your agile project. Here is a short guide on the essentials. Continue reading

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New Point Release – VersionOne Mall Map

New to our latest point release is a Site Navigator (affectionately called “Mall Map”). Spawned from VersionOne’s most recent Hack Week and inspired by those big, colorful, “You Are Here” shopping mall directories, the Site Navigator is a visual navigation control that provides an alternate means of navigating and discovering the VersionOne application. Continue reading

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New Winter ’13 Point Release Available

In an effort to better ensure that our customers won’t share a fate similar to Benedict Arnold, we proudly present several new Analytics Workitem and Epic Cycle-Time and Time-in-Status reports. Continue reading

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Using VersionOne for Earned Value Management (EVM) Reporting

There has been a lot written on the relationship between Earned Value Management (EVM) and Agile Development. There’s now functionality in VersionOne Analytics (Ultimate Edition) to pull key agile metrics that support EVM and output them in a report. Continue reading

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New 12.3 Point Release Available

In honor of our great late President, and of that fateful day in history, we present the 12.3.7 point release. Continue reading

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Notifications 101

I often get asked about the notification capabilities in VersionOne. Here are a couple of the questions I always get asked. Continue reading

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You’ve Never Seen Agile Development Like This

This morning we rolled out our newest product release, which is all about giving team members better ways to see their agile development projects through visualization enhancements. Continue reading

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Getting Bang for Your Buck

In agile development, we work on the item that has the biggest bang for the buck. Here are some tips on how to apply this concept at the agile portfolio level in VersionOne. Continue reading

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You Can Kanban

More and more customers are discussing Lean influences in their process, especially at the portfolio planning level and with operational groups. Here’s a quick summary of the Kanban functionality VersionOne offers. Continue reading

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“You Want it When?” Tips for Release Forecasting

Release forecasting helps Product Owners get a good prediction of the amount of work that can be done on a project during a particular timeframe. The data entered into the fields in VersionOne allows you to play out various “what-if” scenarios for your project. Continue reading

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