Thanks for joining us in the first Space webinar! We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!  For those of you who missed it, here is the recording of our live session:  Below is a summary of the webinar Q&A session with questions grouped by topic.  Thank you for being so active – we received 100+ questions, and most of them (80) were handled during the webinar. We’ll be contacting authors directly to address the unanswered questions that didn’t make it into this post. Don’t worry, all your questions will be answered.  (more…)

Webinar Agenda In many organizations, there is a split between the tools everyone in the company use and those used by creative teams such as marketing, sales, HR, designers, and software developers. This bridge is usually crossed with webhooks and custom integrations that can be fragile, not to mention a potential security and maintenance nightmare for your IT teams. What if there was a single, integrated platform, that meets the needs of all sides? In this session, we'll explore Space, as a single platform that combines chats, teams, blogs, articles, meetings, version control, code

We have so much to keep up with on a daily basis. We communicate with teammates, read blog posts, perform code reviews, and keep a lot of other important work items and activities in our heads. When it comes to personal productivity and task management, sometimes it’s hard to keep track of everything. It can be overwhelming and, frankly speaking, sometimes the best way to get something done is to wait for a better time to do it. In these cases, the best way to record your ideas, organize your thoughts, and accomplish your tasks is to put them down and add them to your to-do list. We are hap

Today, we want to introduce you to the concept of turn-based code reviews in Space! The idea behind turn-based code reviews is to make the process of reviewing code as clear as possible for the author of the code, and the reviewers. When the Space team was looking at the typical code review process, we found two issues that could be improved: Who should take action? It's not always clear whether the ball is in the court of the author or that of one of the reviewers. It is not uncommon for a reviewer to write: "Could you please explain the meaning of this part?", and then delete

Welcome to Space 2020! We would like to share our plans and priorities for the current year in order to make sure that we’re moving in the right direction and that what we have planned will bring you the features you expect and need most. We’re planning for the official release of Space 2020 to happen in Q3 or Q4 of this year. (more…)

With Space, we intend to create an integrated team environment. Using multiple tools makes it difficult to keep track of everything about your projects, teams, and people. Instead of scattering our work and communication across tools, Space endeavors to centralize it all in one place. Space combines the tools for software development, collaboration, planning, analysis, and project management. It also contains documents, knowledge base, and company structure – all in one interface, powerful for technical people, and friendly for everyone to use. Programmers, designers, QA, PMMs, HRs, and manag

We're delighted to introduce Space Packages! In this post we'd like to share with you the existing features, as well as the planned features we have in store for this Space module. First of all, what is Packages? Packages is a package repository manager. If you've ever heard of Maven Central, Docker Hub, or NuGet.org, then you'll easily get the idea. In a nutshell, like these products, it lets you create your own repositories and use them to publish and share packages of various types, such as Docker/OCI images, .jar and .pom files, and others, all inside your Space instance! While this

The main idea behind projects in Space is to give each team a distinct place for all their work-related resources, which is conveniently organized, managed, and easy to navigate to. If you are already familiar with the concept of Teams in Space, you may wonder how Projects fit in. While it is usual for a team to have an only project, it's not always the case. Sometimes you want to invite a person from another team to help with something, or people from different teams want to get together to start a new side project. (more…)

We’re excited to share that the new per-usage pricing model for YouTrack InCloud is launched! As we've announced before, this model lets you pay exactly for the number of users or the amount of disk space you need. The first 3 users are always free, so you start paying from the 4th user only. (more…)

Behind every JetBrains product, there are numerous teams: developers, product marketing (PMM), technical writers, designers and many others. Each team has established their own workflows to match their goals, working habits, and the team profile. In an earlier post, we described how the YouTrack team had been cooking Scrum and had managed to transform this methodology to find the most balanced approach that works for them. Today, we will tell you how other JetBrains teams organize their processes, customize their Agile boards to meet the team’s needs, and what strategies can be useful to be

Six years ago, the YouTrack team started developing an Agile board in YouTrack (our issue tracker and agile project management tool). At JetBrains, dogfooding is one of the key principles of product development. So while building a tool for our customers that conformed to the main principles of an agile framework, we knew we had to experience Agile firsthand. That’s when we decided to adopt Scrum. That was our first attempt towards the world of Agile practices. Unfortunately, after a couple of years (when our Agile board was released), we dropped our Scrum practices for a while. In 2016, we

Coming into effect Autumn 2018, we are moving to a new per-usage pricing model for YouTrack InCloud, which also introduces a free plan with private projects. You will pay only for the user accounts you have each month. The new pricing model also introduces a new free plan which now includes private projects. (more…)