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Introducing easier workflow management with new card buttons and menus

Published by on January 1, 2018.

I’ve been spending time working with the card UI on the board and, soon, the new permalink page. I wanted to bring back the one-click workflow buttons as well as the context menu that offered a number of ticket management features. Today I’m excited to announce that all of those options have returned! The card […]

Reducing visual clutter and making navigation easier with our new menus

Published by on December 28, 2017.

When we introduced the new user interface direction at Sprintly, it’s fair to say it was exclusively focused at larger teams with more complicated project management needs. The flipside of this was that older customers who’d fallen in love with our older, simpler interface felt a bit overwhelmed. Today I’m happy to announce we’re deploying […]

Making the board more agile with sprint forecasting and velocity

Published by on November 30, 2017.

Today I’m excited to announce that we’re releasing velocity and sprint forecasting on the board. Your estimates will now be used to calculate and forecast sprints in the backlog. We’ve also added a new agile info header to help keep you updated on the status of your agile projects! Configuring Sprints and Velocity In your […]

Deploying WordPress themes via GitHub with CircleCI

Published by on July 25, 2017.

A lot of marketing sites are built on WordPress these days, which makes a lot of sense. It’s a powerful CMS with an enormous ecosystem. Everything from blogs to e-commerce to real estate sites are powered by it. It should come as no surprise that we use WordPress here at Sprintly as well. We use […]

5 Awesome Things About Sprintly’s New UI

Published by on April 25, 2017.

We’ve been busy here at Sprintly reworking our UI. Some of our most recent upgrades include: a new way to prioritize tickets, updated reports with one-click CSV export, an updated design for Mine, a faster bulk edit, and the Kanban board. This week we’ve rolled out updates that deep link these new views into the older, […]

Our newer, faster, stronger bulk edit has arrived

Published by on April 24, 2017.

Whether you’re grooming a project’s backlog or updating your tickets after a day of coding, editing tickets in bulk can come in real handy. Sprintly’s bulk edit feature was built specifically to enable quick editing of dozens of tickets. We’ve recently put in the effort to re-engineer it to be faster and more intuitive. What can […]

Keep Track of Your Tickets with Sprintly’s Mine View

Published by on April 18, 2017.

All of your tickets, across all of your projects, in a simple list broken down by status? Yes, please. New Mine View Project management tools aren’t something developers love using. Most developers just want a simple list of things they’re supposed to do across all of their ongoing projects. That’s it. With this goal in […]

We’re Back! A Fresh Start for Sprintly

Published by on November 10, 2015.

Hi, it’s Joe Stump here and I have some exciting news to share. Sprintly has again become an independent company that I will be running along with April Dunford. The team at Quick Left has done a great job with Sprintly over the past couple of years, but taking it back to being its own […]

How do I go from “maker” to “manager?”

Published by on May 8, 2015.

Interested in making the jump from engineer to manager? I’ve taken a number of practical steps since making this transition myself. Hopefully these help you in your new leadership role! Codify and communicate your opinions on best practices You can’t expect to get others to work the way you do without first figuring out what […]

Using modern JavaScript and CI tooling for Google Apps Scripts

Published by on March 13, 2015.
Sprintly's Joe Stump shows you how to use JavaScript and CI tooling for Google Apps Scripts

I’ve recently been working on a Google Apps Scripts (GAS) add-on for Sprintly that will allow our customers to directly integrate the Sprintly API into Google Spreadsheets. GAS is a little like Facebook Apps or Zendesk Web Widgets only for Google Apps in that you can code some JavaScript and HTML that Google will embed […]