Uzility is introducing the new board background images. Anyone using Uzility can set a custom background image on any of their boards. This is a new per user setting, allowing for the personalization of the agile board that everyone should have access to. Some competitors offer the ability to set the background image only in their premium package. This new …
As we have been building the Uzility agile product, we have been following agile development principles, following the release early, release often and get customer feedback. There have been things that we have tried, and things that we have learned from, and updated or changed. Its interesting when you have a design for part of the system that you think looks …
By: Steve Stedman CEO at Uzility Software Some of the first backlog grooming meetings that I participated in as a scrum master were extremely painful. I would be working with multiple product owners and many of them weren’t using the same system to manage their backlogs. Some were using Excel to manage their back log, others using a text file, …
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I have worked with some agile product owners who when the write user stories, the like to go epic on the acceptance criteria, in fact when you read their acceptance criteria it almost looks like a complete functional specification crammed in to acceptance criteria. Other product owners simply write a user story and expect that all acceptance criteria will …
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Agile Humor, a true story of agile clashing with teenage chores. I just had a conversation with my teenage son regarding what “doing the dishes” means, which evolved several user stories which included the following using the As a ___ I need ____ so that _____ format for user stories. I realized that we never had a decent list of …
Last year I finally got fed up with the internal tools that I was using to manage Agile backlogs and Agile workflows, and I decided to build my own. I first named it GroupScrum which was later renamed to AgiPlanner, but too many people thought it sounded like an agricultural product. Recently the product has been renamed to Uzility, …
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A kanban board, agile board, or agile kanban board is a tool to display the status of tasks in the workflow process. A cork board or sticky notes can be used as a offline kanban board. The image below shows a simple online kanban board using the Uzility system. A much more complex kanban in Uzility. And here is …