Sprintly’s new startup plan
This month I’ve been speaking to a number of Sprintly users. One encouraging trend: many of our users are using Sprintly to build their startup. Some of these projects are part-time, while others are full-time, investor backed ventures. Our team loves startups. We were once a startup ourselves! However, a lot of our startup users […]
Inspiration for makers: XOXO Festival
Sprintly’s office is located in Portland. The city is a weird, creative place where a lot of makers flourish. It’s only fitting that Portland plays host to XOXO, a weird, creative conference focused on makers. On September 11th, I joined hundreds of others for my first XOXO experience. What makes XOXO truly unique isn’t the […]
How to involve clients in consulting projects
Welcome to our new series: How to Ship – we’ll be talking to leaders from some of the best teams in the world, so you can learn their secrets and apply them to your team. This week we’re interviewing Edward Hartwell Goose, a consultant at PA Consulting. What does your company do? We’re a global consultancy […]
Come to our Portland office’s grand opening party
Come and get a sneak peek of our beautiful new Sprintly / Quick Left office in Portland! We’d love for you to join us for beer, snacks, and some awesome swag. For those of you who don’t already know, Sprintly and Quick Left merged in January. Quick Left crafts outstanding web and mobile applications, and has an […]
How to manage team workload, track progress, and please your boss
When I became a Product Manager in 2012, I ran into some big challenges: My boss kept asking me for progress reports. The only way I could get this information was to go interrupt a developer and ask them “How much work have we finished so far?” I had no way of tracking velocity. Once I knew […]
A marketing workflow that helps drive growth
Welcome to our new series: How to Ship – we’ll be talking to leaders from some of the best teams in the world, so you can learn their secrets and apply them to your team. This week we’re interviewing Lars Lofgren, the Growth Manager at KISSmetrics. What does your company do? KISSmetrics ties all your data […]
New Sprint.ly Update: Item Detail Modal
Today we released a great new update for quickly viewing an item’s detail and history. We developed a modal for the item detail view. Click on an item’s title and a child window opens up with detailed information for that particular item. You can review, comment and add attachments to tickets without losing your place […]
Security Update on CVE-2014-0160 Heartbleed
OpenSSL, the open source cryptographic library reported the Heartbleed vulnerability on April 7, 2014. The vulnerability allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by SSL/TLS encryption. We have had no evidence that this vulnerability was used against Sprintly but we have taken all necessary precautions to ensure the continued safety of your information. Actions […]
Sprintly Among Favorite UIs
Sprintly was recently recognized by Software Advice as one of the top five favorite user interfaces in agile project management. Software Advice researched 100s of project management interfaces, selected their top five favorite and in the review called Sprintly’s interface “remarkably attractive.” I had a chance to catch up with author Noel Radley to ask her a few questions […]
Pull Request Templates Make Code Review Easier
Last week Justin, our Director of Product Engineering, shared how instituting a simple template makes code review easier for our dev team. From Justin: We do a bunch of code reviews at Sprint.ly. One of the things we’ve done to make that process a little easier is institute a code review template. This template is a […]