YouTrack

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 ma…

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 project…

You’ve made it to our last episode in the How We Scrum series. In this installment, I’ll walk you through our sprint retrospective. To catch up on older posts in this series, check out the Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, Our Backlog, Our Approach to Estimation, Our Sprint Planning, The Sprint, and Ou…

In this, our seventh episode, I’ll give you a backstage pass to our sprint demo. Previous posts in our How We Scrum series include an Introduction, Our Scrum Roles, Our Backlog, Our Approach to Estimation, Our Sprint Planning, and The Sprint. At the end of every sprint, we have a sprint demo sess…

Previously we published the Introduction and Our Scrum Roles installments from the How We Scrum series. This post is the third in the series and is devoted to our product backlog. In our case, the product backlog is a set of features that we plan to build for YouTrack. At JetBrains in general…

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 cust…

This guest blog post is brought to you by a company called Rostelecom-Integracija.  Rostelecom-Integracija a company that develops and implements software solutions for Rostelecom, the biggest national telecommunications company in Russia, with a presence in every segment of the telecommunication…

Today we would like to tell you about cross-project Agile boards and monitoring your work progress in several projects through a sprint or any other iteration. General use case My team works on two projects simultaneously, and I want to monitor the progress for both projects on the same board. On…

We are pleased to present a really short video, demonstrating how to setup and use effectively YouTrack's 4.0 Agile Board for your Scrum project. Please watch Scrum with YouTrack 4.0 demo.…

We are ending this month on a high note: YouTrack 4.0 has been released and is available now! Our development team has worked very hard to provide this release on time and you can start using it right away. One of the main focuses of this release has been supporting Agile methodologies. This includ…

Great news for everyone waiting for the release of YouTrack 4.0, especially with Agile support that we're anxious to bring you! Finally, the latest 4.0 Release Candidate is gone to JetBrains issue tracker production and available for internal and external users! Download the latest YouTrack 4.0 RC…