Thanks to everyone who joined our live webinar, Baking Boards: Tweak the Recipe for Agile Development! The recording of the webinar is now available on JetBrainsTV. In this webinar, we show you how we at JetBrains "bake" agile boards in YouTrack for different teams like Product Development, Marketing, Design, and Technical Writing. If you missed the webinar for any reason, you are welcome to watch it now! Timeline: 00:00 — Introduction 06:09 — YouTrack Team 19:55 — Documentation Team 27:27 — IntelliJ IDEA PMM 34:59 — Design Team 43:10 — AppCode and CLion Development Teams 49:10

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, two of our Quality Assurance Engineers show you how the CLion and AppCode teams use their agile boards to follow a Kanban-inspired methodology. Preparation 1. Create your board. Start with the Kanban board template. 2. Add your projects. You can add multiple projects, but on these boards, each team only manages issues that are assigned to one project. The CLion and AppCode teams have separate projects, and each project has its own board. For the Backlog option, choose Create new. You can set this up later. Just click the Create Board button to c

In this episode of Baking Boards, we show you how to build and use a Scrum board for agile software development. This is the same board that is used by the team who built the agile board in YouTrack! Preparation 1. Create your board. We built this board using the Scrum board template. When you create the board: Select the projects that you want to manage on the board. On this board, we manage issues in the YouTrack and YouTrack Backlog projects. For the Backlog option, choose Create new. We’ll customize the backlog later. 2. Create a sprint. We assign each sprint a numb

In this episode of Baking Boards, our Product Marketing Managers show you how they manage marketing-related activities in 20 different projects on an agile board. Preparation 1. Create your board. Start with the Scrum board template. 2. Add your projects First, make sure your projects all use the custom field that you want to use to identify columns on the board. It’s best to use the default State field. They don’t have to use the same set of value for this field, but if they don’t use the same field, you won’t be able to manage these projects on the board. Add all of t

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

Welcome to the Baking Boards vlog series! This series is devoted to showing you how we at JetBrains configure and use Agile boards in YouTrack. Different teams use boards in different ways. You'll see examples from Product Development, Design, Marketing, Technical Writing, and even a personal board. Each episode shows you how one of our teams manages a project on an agile board that supports their process. We also include a recipe to follow if you want to "bake" a board just like it. Let's cook! In the first episode of Baking Boards, we show you how our technical writers cooked (that