Tag Archives: agile

Introducing the Intervals Kanban Board

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A new online task management tool using the Agile practice of Kanban. The Intervals team has completed the beta release of our Kanban board. And it’s open to anyone with an Intervals account (Don’t have one? Create one here). Our Kanban project management board is designed to help you visualize task workflow and interact with tasks using […]

Planning, Tracking and Managing Agile Web Development Sprints using Scrum and Intervals

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Agile, Scrum and the Web Design and Development Industry The Web development industry, along with the software development world as a whole, is undergoing a significant transition in project management styles. The traditional waterfall methods — where projects are strictly confined to outdated specs and constantly over budget — are being replaced with methodologies collectively known […]

Better Sprint Planning through Time Tracking

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Time tracking is something we’ve always done at our Web design and development agency, Pelago. When we transitioned into a SaaS company five years ago, with our flagship online software Intervals, the time tracking practices followed with us. Agile development just came naturally to us, and our time tracking habits dovetailed with our rendition of […]

Recent Intervals Features and Improvements

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Introducing daily project summary emails, user-specific time zone settings, control task status order, a new Agile-friendly milestone graph, and more… We are excited to announce another round of features and improvements recently launched. But first we’d like to thank our active community of customers who provide us with such great feedback and ideas that make […]

Managing Scrum Backlogs Using Intervals Online Task Management Tools

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Scrum is one of the most popular methods of Agile web development in practice today. Scrum focuses on breaking down a project into small pieces, called stories, that can be designed and developed in short iterations, called sprints. To manage this process, Scrum uses multiple backlogs to keep all of the stories organized. Each backlog […]

Tracking Team Velocity for Agile Web Development

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Velocity is one of the key components necessary for managing successful Agile Web development sprints. The ability to precisely calculate and track a team’s velocity will make the process of planning and managing a sprint a more pleasant and efficient experience for both the project manager and the Web design and development team. What exactly is […]

Time Tracking is Essential to Agile Development

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Time tracking has been a point of contention between developers and managers for as long as I’ve been working in the web design and development industry. That’s sixteen years. I’ve been on both sides of the issue working as both a web developer and as a manager. Tracking your time as a web developer is […]