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We hope that your 2017 was successful, productive and full of bright and memorable moments for you and your team. We wish you all the best for the holidays and hope you have a great start to the new year. The end of the year is just the right time to take a retrospective review. What are the main usage trends in YouTrack? Which projects and boards are the most popular? Which reports do you use more often? We’ve collected the most interesting trends in YouTrack usage through 2017 and are excited to share them with you*. (more…)

In this episode of Baking Boards, we show you how two very different teams at JetBrains use agile boards that synchronize sprints with the fix version of the product in development. (more…)

In this episode of Baking Boards, Andrey Cheptsov, the Product Marketing Manager for IntelliJ IDEA, shows you the personal board he uses to track all of the activity that is related to the promotion of this IDE. Preparation 1. Create your board. For easy configuration, use the Custom board template. When you create the board: - Select the projects that you want to manage on the board. You can track issues in any project that you have the permission to view issues. -For the Backlog option, choose Create new. You won’t use it, but you need a backlog to create the board. 2. Defin

In this episode of Baking Boards, we show you the agile board that the design team cooked up to manage issues in their project. Preparation Create your board. We built this board using the Custom board template. When you create the board: Select the projects that you want to manage on the board. All of the issues that we manage on this board belong to the same project. For the Backlog option, choose Create new. We won’t do anything with it, but you need a backlog to create the board. 2. Define columns. With the custom board template, you have to define your col

Introduction The YouTrack team has been practicing Scrum for several years. We decided to switch to Scrum six years ago, when we started to develop an agile board in YouTrack. Since dogfooding is a core concept at JetBrains, we decided to adopt a Scrum practice ourselves and develop a tool for customers that conformed to the main principles of an agile framework. So, as our first Scrum Master told us, we started with a physical board. As we developed our agile board, we ported the physical board to YouTrack. After a while, we realized that we are happy with Scrum, and went further with our t

We are proud to introduce a brand new Agile board in YouTrack 7.0. We've completely revamped it to improve usability, design and concept, and most importantly, the way it's used to visualize your team's progress and track personal tasks. Welcome the brand new Agile board If you've already tried the new version, the usability and design changes are pretty obvious. However, I would like to explain the new concept in more detail. Previous Agile board concept Agile board is not new to YouTrack; it's been with us since YouTrack 4.0. This functionality has always been popular among our custo

We are thrilled to announce that YouTrack 7.0, code-named Inception, is now available to use as part of the EAP (Early Access Program). Try YouTrack 7.0 EAP on our Sandbox instance, or move your newly registered InCloud instance to v7.0. Detailed instructions are provided at the end of this post. So, what’s inside? Agile Board Updates We have thoroughly investigated the requests we received from our users, and implemented a lot of cool and useful features to do with the Agile Board. The most important change is that Sprints are no longer treated as Fix version. With this new con

Update: YouTrack 7.0 EAP is opened! Check more details in this blog post. It's been awhile since we released YouTrack 6.5. We've had enough time to get tons of feedback, analyze it and discuss our future plans inside the team.Today we are excited to share our plans for the next version, code-named Inсeption and planned for Q1 2016. YouTrack 'Inсeption' Feature List This time we have a very short and precise plan: 1. Project Templates 2. Agile Board: new concept and live update 3. Enhanced Backlog management 4. Choosing data center location for YouTrack InCloud instance 5. Merge user

I'm going to show you how I personally use the Agile board in YouTrack to visualize, track and manage my own marketing activities. How we do it at JetBrains Every JetBrains product has a dedicated Product Marketing Manager (PMM), and for YouTrack, it's yours truly. As part of the product team, I'm involved in the development process and I participate in daily stand-up meetings and discussions. As a PMM, I use the YouTrack Agile board in two different ways. On the one hand, I refer to the development Agile board to stay aware of what's going on with the product so I can write about new