In the Agile world, there’s an effort to move away from estimates in hours towards estimating in story points, often using a Fibonacci sequence. The idea is that the larger a story is, the more uncertainty there will be around it and the estimates...
Planio is now integrated with DeployHQ.com. To mark the new integration, I set up a flow for automatic deployments of repositories in Planio to Uberspace using DeployHQ. In my fictional case, we’re building a new website for the Tasty Design Agency...
Every day you answer IT queries from users, but you’re starting to think there has to be a better way. First of all, you also have other things to take care of, and second, you have the sneaking suspicion that the problem is getting worse by the day...
Ok, you know how web developers, well, develop websites? It’s easy to assume that once the experts are done developing their website, work’s done. Sure, you need to do server maintenance every now and then, but other than that, you’re done. Right?...
You see the whiteboard covered with tiny little cards arranged in columns below? You’re looking at a Kanban board. And it might just change everything about how you work. Kanban originated in the 1950s when Toyota revolutionized how they manufactured...
In my first job out of college, I read a book called “Getting Things Done”. The book unleashed a massive wave of inspiration in me. I had visions of being a relentless executive, churning through new initiatives at a furious rate. So, I got religion...
Employees regularly cite the option of working remotely as something they’d love. In fact, 80-90% of U.S. workers say they’d like to work from home at least part of the time. At the same time, not all companies favor remote work. Yahoo famously banned...
Have you ever struggled with team members updating you on a project on Slack, while others are using Planio Team Chat, and yet another team member is using HipChat? You end up with project information spread out in different chat apps. You can’t pull...
The Agile board in Planio is a great way to manage your project using agile methodologies such as Scrum. It’s also a great way to visualize the current state of tasks in Planio, even if you aren’t using an agile framework. Recently, we’ve updated the...
This is a story about how a significant increase in the number of Git repositories at Planio resulted in a noticeable service slowdown and how we were able to not only fix this but to provide a sustained speedup of the whole service. At Planio,...