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Published by on November 20, 2012.

This video shows you the entire lifecycle of an item in Sprint.ly. See how to create items and follow them through the entire process from Backlog to Accepted. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Sprint.ly + GitHub Status API = Win

Published by on September 4, 2012.

Since the day we launched Sprint.ly into private beta, we’ve been committed to helping automate collaboration across teams within a company. Until now, one way we’ve done this is by allowing developer’s to use their natural GitHub workflow to comment on and manipulate tickets from the comfort of their commit messages. Today, GitHub is announcing […]

Introducing Sprint.ly Services Integrations

Published by on August 17, 2012.

Have you ever wished Sprint.ly would push events to 3rd party services? Yeah, us too. Above is a screenshot of our newly created outbound services integrations, which are available on the site starting now. We currently support: WebHooks HipChat Campfire If the service you’re looking for isn’t in the above list, fear not, you’re in […]

Introducing the Item Annotations API

Published by on July 25, 2012.

The main data object at Sprint.ly is the item. This is the core unit of collaboration in our software. All comments, code commits, etc. all map back, in some way, to an item. Items in Sprint.ly are usually well represented throughout the organization. You might chat about them in your Campfire or HipChat. Your Jenkins […]

Announcing Sprint.ly’s Jedi Council

Published by on July 12, 2012.

Today is just like any other day at Sprint.ly; we’re answering your support requests, fixing bugs, and working on the next big feature. The only thing that’s changing is that we’re letting everyone in on a secret, which is that we’ve raised a small warchest and assembled an amazing list of advisors to help us […]

Taking our relationship with email to the next level

Published by on June 21, 2012.

From the day we released Sprint.ly into private beta we’ve had email integration. Like most features at Sprint.ly, email had a simple and humble beginning. You could create tasks via email, defects via email, and reply to comments via email. Given that many of our customers live inside of email, some of us even taking […]

Timelines

Published by on May 30, 2012.

Since our inception, Sprint.ly has felt that time estimates are untenable in a fast moving product environment. Simply put, humans are not good at perceiving or estimating time. Computers, however, are generally quite good at such things. Today we’re introducing a new feature, which we call Timelines, that we created to help your business understand […]

Get the most from Sprint.ly’s dashboard

Published by on March 21, 2012.

Introduction Sprint.ly’s dashboard is the main entry point to the product. It consists of three main features: a Kanban board, a cadence graph, and a focus graph. These three features give everyone a 5,000 foot view of where the product sits. The Kanban Board The Kanban board is comprised of four columns for each phase […]

Sub-items get an upgrade

Published by on February 15, 2012.

Today we’re releasing an upgrade to story sub-items. For many of our users, sub-items are a killer feature. It allows them to break a bigger feature into many tasks and assign those tasks to various individuals on a team. Today’s upgrades include the following goodies: The sub-items status is surfaced as the sub-item’s icon. Folder […]

Daily Agile Digests for your Team

Published by on February 14, 2012.
Daily Agile Digests for your team

Sprintly has a nice little feature called Daily Digests. These are daily emails that are pushed every 24 hours by our server to your entire team. Many teams we know send out daily, or even weekly, status reports of what they’ve been doing. This seems tedious; why can’t our tools do this stuff for us? […]