Which VersionOne Edition is Right for You?
Just in case you hadn’t noticed, VersionOne now has multiple product editions – Team, Catalyst, Enterprise, and Ultimate. While it is important to us to maintain a consistent look-and-feel and overall...
View ArticleOops I Did it Again… Maybe My Story Really is an Epic
This is something I hear quite often from the Product Owners I speak with. Initially they captured their stories (aka features, requirements, backlog, etc.) thinking that it was at a reasonable size...
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Charting the Course to Agile Development
I recently discussed some release planning approaches with a customer who had some traditional fixed project-type constraints: contractual relationship with milestones (in the form of multiple...
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Time to Visualize
With our latest release, Fall 12, one of the new features we introduced was Visualization. Visualization allows you to observe at a very high level how your asset is tied to other assets within the...
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You Can Kanban
We’ve been noticing continued growth in Lean concepts and Kanban in particular over the past couple of years. The use of Kanban as a technique in agile projects grew 33% from 2010 to 2011, and was...
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You’ve Never Seen Agile Development Like This
This morning we rolled out our Winter 2013 product release, which is all about giving team members better ways to see their agile development projects. We’ve incorporated killer visualization...
View ArticleWhat to Expect in our Bi-Weekly Live Product Demonstrations! Part 1 of 3
Twice a week we stream an hour long live product demo that provides a high level overview of the application. We encourage and want all the demos to be highly interactive so feel free to ask any...
View Articleadhoc api reporting (+ downloads)
i wanted to share the results of a poc (proof of concept) effort i recently found success with using the api for some custom adhoc reporting via ms excel. as i get started i would like to make a few...
View ArticleWhat to Expect in our Bi-Weekly Live Product Demonstrations! Part 2 of 3
Continued from Part 1... In the first part of this series we looked at the Product Owner activities that take place in VersionOne (Product Planning and Release Planning). The second part of this...
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What to Expect in our Bi-Weekly Live Product Demonstrations! Part 3 of 3
Continued from Part 2… The final part of this series will focus on the area of the demonstration which covers additional areas to get you up and running. Reports: VersionOne comes preloaded with over...
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Agile Construction Management Using VersionOne
In a post in the Agile Management blog, I outlined the idea that agile development could be applied to Construction Management. There are some terms that have been customized in this VersionOne...
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Summer 2013 Release: Reach Out and Touch Someone
The Summer 2013 Release has some interesting value-packaged within. Reach Out and Touch Someone The old telephone adage has taken on a new twist this summer. Where the mighty Ma Bell once featured this...
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Fall 2013 Release: I Plan to Re-plan
Some years back, Luke Hohmann introduced me to the phrase, “I plan to re-plan.” It’s a somewhat awkward phrase which caused me to stop and ponder it for a moment. “Is re-planning the ultimate purpose...
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Agile Metrics: I’ve Got Goals and a Whole Lot More
I often find myself talking about agile metrics with many teams using VersionOne. Agile metrics is sometimes a very challenging conversation — some agile development folks don’t like them because...
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The Large and the Small – Winter 2014 is Here
A new year is upon us and with that, the new Winter 2014 Release. While the process of delivering our quarterly releases means each is roughly equivalent in size, there is still something special about...
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Requests and Ideas - My Polymorphic Backlog in VersionOne
If you are a Product Owner, a Project Manager, or a Business Analyst, you have heard the following before; I’m sure: “It’s not a defect; it’s a feature.” “It’s not an issue; it’s an enhancement.” “It’s...
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All for One, One for All! Approach to Managing Agile Projects with Shared...
Yours is an organization delivering multiple projects for different customers through your various teams – shared services. Though your teams practice agile – and enjoy it! – they do not truly have a...
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Project Scorecard Report
Once upon a time, I was a Senior Project Manager in a Development Department of a major retailer based in the Atlanta area. One of my jobs was to compile and distribute a weekly report on all the...
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“What’s in a Name? That Which We Call a ‘Project’ by Any Other Name Would...
With apologies to William Shakespeare – couldn’t resist, Bill ol’ chap… So – what is a Project in VersionOne? Is it a Product, a Project or a Release? Is it a Portfolio, a Program or a Group? The...
View ArticleOrganizing and Associating Work to an Epic
We have many teams within VersionOne using the Epic functionality heavily to organize their work. I often get asked questions like: “What if I decide later on that my work is tied to an existing...
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