Scrum Poker app for Jira - helping agile teams with project estimates.
It's been close to two years since we launched our Scrum Poker estimates for Confluence. We heard back from our clients and users who evaluated the »
The business value of an Agile Retrospective.
For a couple of years now, SoftwareDevTools has been helping remote teams adopt Agile, and we've worked with a lot of teams. We've built tools to »
Agile Retrospectives for Jira: How Communication Inspired Our Latest Project
Here at SoftwareDevTools we know what it’s like working with remote teams and the struggle it can be to have an efficient communication between team »
8 Tips for Daily Standup Meetings
Keeping aligned is really important to Agile teams and, according to the Scrum methodology, daily stand-up meetings are the tool of choice for that. When done »
Do's & Dont's for your Agile Retrospective Session
This is based on ScrumAlliance's article: Do's and Don'ts of Agile Retrospectives: Tips for healthier retrospectives The SoftwareDevTools team is on a quest to make Agile »
Agile Retrospectives in remote teams.
This post is based on Ben Linders' blog When working with remote #Agile teams, even though the team can't gather in one location, you still want »
Remote teams and bot disruption.
At SoftwareDevTools we are part of an organization that embraces remote work. Some of us live in cities such as Mexico City or San Jose (CA) »
Distributed Agile Software Development. Challenges and Opportunities
The SoftwareDevTools team is all about sharing best practices for remote agile teams. We’re trying to make the case for Agile methodologies to adapt to »
World Retrospective Day
February 6th is a special day for the Agile community worldwide. February 6th was the #WorldRetrospectiveDay, a volunteer-based, globally coordinated effort to share in the power »
Our collaboration tool for Stride - Stand-bot.
Since the very beginning of SoftwareDevTools, we have been obsessed with the way remote and onsite teams collaborate. When we first launched PlanningWith.Cards as a »
Embracing Agile: A Harvard Business Review Review. Part 3.
SoftwareDevTools is making a Harvard Business Review Review (catchy title, huh!?). In 2016, #Agile legend Jeff Sutherland wrote an article with Management Experts Darrell K. Rigby, »
Embracing Agile: A Harvard Business Review Review. Part 2.
SoftwareDevTools is making a Harvard Business Review Review (Yeah, that's not a typo). We are dissecting the famous article: "Embracing Agile" by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff »
Embracing Agile: A Harvard Business Review Review. Part 1.
Last year, Management & #Agile legends: Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland & Hirotaka Takeuchi, got together and wrote a research paper (find it here) making an »
Collaboration: The Key to great customer service.
You can do your research. You’ll find that everyone agrees with SoftwareDevTools: When it comes to customer service culture, collaboration is key. Every other site »
7 anti-patterns for customer support teams.
We have been building products for software development teams since day one and continue to do so with some new stuff we launched in the Slack »