Christmas Time and a Sneak Peeks for tinyPM 3.0
It’s been silent here recently, but for us this always means one thing… Our team must be working hard on something. And this time it’s tinyPM 3.0, so have a look at the first sneak peak to where tinyPM is heading with its new version!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmMeyu-PtRE
The video above comes from our early walking skeleton. So what’s in there actually? We’ve decided to change a few things in UI but you will still find all what’s best in tinyPM in a new version, so the v3.0 should not be a shock to all the 2.x users.
The upcoming UI changes include:
- more client-side behavior so that the UI responds quickly and you don’t loose your current context,
- most of the create and edit forms will now show up in pop-ups (no more going to separate pages),
- you will be able to choose between single- and two-column views, cards and table modes (on backlog) and 3 zoom levels of detail for stories and tasks,
- the UI will be less cluttered and some actions will appear only in the right context (ie. after selecting some stories or tags),
- charts will get more interactive, so that you can get even more information out of them,
- most of the data will be editable inline (no more going to separate forms for quick changes on several stories),
- table view will get more sorting options and (re-)tagging many stories will become no-time operation
We’re doing this and many more in the spirit of our mantra “tiny effort, perfect management“. Here are a few screen shots presenting some of the above changes. You can find more on our Facebook Page.
We hope that you are already in the Christmas mood and would like to wish you all
Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year!~ tinyPM Team
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tinyPM Survey Closed. We Know the Winner!
This time we’re happy to announce the winner of the book “Management 3.0″ by Jurgen Appelo which was the prize in our survey. The survey was announced among our newsletter subscribers and users that registered in our support site after downloading tinyPM.
First of all thank you for participating in the survey. We value all the feedback that you’ve given us. We are even more happy as the survey allowed also people who didn’t decide to use tinyPM to share their reasons behind that decision.
So using our advanced prize drawing tools we have found a lucky winner… It’s Chris Townsend from UK. We’ve already contacted Chris and will be shipping the book soon!
Chris indicated that they are introducing agile in their company and don’t know yet how it will go. We are sure the book will give them lots of new hints as well as a new perspective on the management in general. Here is what else Chris said about tinyPM:
How is tinyPM helping you being more agile?
The taskboard is probably the most valuable as it’s a great way to visualise outstanding work. The dashboard is probably next for us as it gives a good indication of progress overall.
What kind of projects do you use tinyPM for?
Web projects – currently the size of the projects has been relatively small, but TinyPM has been really handy for keeping track of requirements/time spent as well as introducing the team to agile methods that we can hopefully apply on larger projects in the future.
What would you change or add in tinyPM?
A hosted version!
Well, as for the latter we actually offer a hosted tinyPM, but we’re working on a tinyPM 3.0 which will start as a full SaaS solution from the very beginning. Those of you running tinyPM on your local servers don’t need to be worried. There will be still a downloadable version available.
Thank you once again for participating in the survey. If you didn’t have luck this time, soon there will be another chance. Stay tuned!
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What the Story Card Color is Telling You?
We always thought about color-coding story cards as a very good way to indicate different types of user stories. The most popular was of course to use the red color to indicate bugs. But also green played well for indicating some general ideas to verify or think about (expressed in terms of a user story on the board).
Lately we’ve received a graph from Tatham Oddie, one of tinyPM users, who thought that we may find it interesting to see how they used card colors in tinyPM. A few minutes later I was asking Tatham if we may share it with others and here it is.
And this is what Tatham says about it:
“We’re building a guided case management system. The team in the organisation who determine all the guidance are the Practice Development Centre, or PDC. Early in a user story’s lifecycle, it’ll bounce back and forth between our PO and the PDC team. PDC don’t have access to tinyPM, but the PO uses colours to track which stories are dependent upon PDC outcomes.
Once the PO and PDC are both happy, it progresses to blue which indicates that the user story is of sufficient stability for the dev team to raise any of our own queries, then size it.”
So what they actually did is that they create a color-coded workflow bringing user story to a READY state. And how do you use card colors on your board (not necessarily in tinyPM)?
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