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New Point Releases Available Winter ’12 through Winter ’13

Realizing that our customers definitely qualify as learned folks, we figured that we had better immediately address the dangers of Cross Site Scripting and HTML injection in rich text controls… before customers started calling into support to inquire why we hadn’t taken heed to Aesop’s warnings. Continue reading

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Radiate with TeamRoom

TeamRoom makes a great information radiator! If you’ve finally convinced the pointy haired boss to pony up for some TVs in your physical team room, consider these benefits of having an agile TeamRoom. 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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Reactions to Agile TeamRoom and the Fall Release

Yesterday we announced our Fall Release including the new TeamRoom environment created just for agile teams, and we saw record participation in the first of 3 live demo webinars going on Nov. 8, 13 & 20. Continue reading

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We Don’t Need No Water, Let the Story Points Burn!

How does your organization create stories? If you break down stories into tasks and tests but only to serve as reminders, then the Project-level burndown chart is your friend. Continue reading

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Customizing Boards & Setting Up Your Project Workspaces

A quick video tutorial on how to customize your boards on a per-project basis within VersionOne. Continue reading

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Help Helps Me Help You Help Others

Why don’t people use application help? Here are some theories, as well as a video I created on how you can get the most from VersionOne Help. Continue reading

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Flexible Grid Customization – Part 2 of 2

How can you get visibility into dependencies between work items? Read this post to see how powerful grid customization really is in sprint planning. Visibility into dependencies gives the ScrumMaster or agile project manager a realistic view of how much the team can actually handle for the sprint. Continue reading

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