Project Management tool for Students
From inception, we wanted to build a flexible project management tool that would adapt to companies and departments that were not necessarily development-centric. Over the past months (and to our pleasant surprise!), we noticed that Planbox is being deployed in a wide variety of companies. In Read more
Randy
Agile is evolving, not declining
After reading the post from javacodegeeks 4 Warning Signs that Agile Is Declining, I started writing a comment and then noticed I had too much stuff to say, so decided to write something about it instead. I think that agile is far from declining, but that it’s starting to evolve and will keep Read more
Magali
Being Agile Without Knowing – More Common Than Not
After a couple years of being a mix between project and product manager, I hadn’t yet heard of scrum or any other type of agile process. At work, we had started doing releases more regularly (about once or twice a month) and priorities were shifting quite often. To make things easier and more Read more
Magali
HTML5 Drag and Drop – Scrolling the Page
In Planbox we implemented HTML5 drag and drop. This allows you to prioritize items and tasks and move them around. But sometimes the drop target is not visible being offscreen above or below. The natural reflex is to move the mouse cursor beyond the view port and expect that the page scrolls. Read more
Martin
A Short Presentation About Agile
I’ve recently been doing a lot of Planbox training and some companies need a quick overview or recap of agile. During these trainings, I don’t have time to go over all things agile, so I’ve done a short presentation that hopefully still covers the most important points about agile. Let me Read more
Magali
Agile Tool Reviews
When I Joined the Planbox team, one of my first task was to test other products and see how they all compared. If only I knew that there was someone out there doing the work for me. If you find yourself in one or both of these situations: Too much research to do on agile tools. Not convinced Read more
Randy
Closing the Agile Feedback Loop
Today we released a new feature we are really excited about. On the Work page, you can now link User Feedback to items through simple drag and drop. That allows you to link User Feedback to User Stories. The Item Pane now has a new Feedback tab with all linked user feedback. That way, Read more
Martin
Git Planbox Command Line Interface
If you are an avid CLI user and use Git and Planbox, Jason Ardell has created a nice solution for you. It is called git-planbox; a command line interface to drive Planbox directly from your console. It is written in PHP as a PEAR package and depends on another PEAR package called CLImax – a Read more
Martin
SnapEngage and Planbox Integration
A few weeks ago we integrated SnapEngage inside Planbox. We are avid users of SnapEngage and the outcome of this integration is so great, I had to make a case study out of it. What is SnapEngage? First off, a little about SnapEngage. It is a SaaS tool you put on your web site or web application Read more
Martin
Dynamic Dashboard at the Project Level
Today the Dashboard on the Work page just got more powerful. It now dynamically adapts to show the progress and Burndown of projects you have selected – not just the entire initiative. You control that through the project filter. How it Works In the following screenshot (click to enlarge) Read more
Martin
