Features of the New AgileZen

June 8, 2012

We’ve had quite a few requests to detail the feature set of the new AgileZen. Here it goes: Real-Time Collaboration happens in real-time. Regardless of whether you’re working face-to-face or remotely, the best work happens when people work together at the same time. The current version of AgileZen enhances team collaboration, but lacks the real-time [...]

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To Rewrite or Not to Rewrite

June 6, 2012

Every development team that has ever been lucky enough to have a successful product has asked themselves this question when it came time to really evaluate how to take that product to TheNextLevel(tm). And like most interesting questions, there’s no right answer. At least, not one you can be certain about beforehand. There is one [...]

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The Team and I

June 4, 2012

Not to brag, okay I’m bragging, but I work with the best team. I am continually amazed by the group of people that I get to work with every day. Not only are they brilliant in their work, but are great to be with too. Just this past weekend, I joined a few of my [...]

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The “Current” AgileZen

May 30, 2012

Upon our announcement of the new version of AgileZen, we received a number of questions about the current version of the product. In response, we put together a Q/A format blog post on the topic. If you have any other questions, please ask them in the comments below, or send them to us on Twitter. [...]

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On Nate’s Departure

May 16, 2012

As of Monday, May 14, Nate Kohari is no longer with the AgileZen team. Nate formally announced this news on Twitter earlier in the week: This is really hard to swallow. My employment at Rally Software has been terminated, ending my involvement with AgileZen. — Nate Kohari (@nkohari) May 15, 2012 As an original co-founder [...]

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New Product Announcement

May 10, 2012

In July 2009, we launched AgileZen with the goal of providing customers with a simple and visual way to organize their work on the web. We created AgileZen because we felt the pain of software that was difficult to use, complicated, and too focused on collecting information instead of on team communication. We knew there [...]

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New Team Members

April 27, 2012

Earlier this year I wrote a post on goals for 2012. One of those goals was hiring, so I thought I would give an update on how things have been progressing. Since the beginning of the year, we’ve added Jayme, Pat, and Ashley to the team, and we’re now up to nine full-time people! (Courtney [...]

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Our New Look!

April 26, 2012

A few perceptive individuals noticed that we’ve been using a new logo for the past few months when we’ve sponsored events like Startup Madness and Triangle Startup Weekend. We’re in the process of re-inventing a lot of things here on the AgileZen team, one of which is the logo. We’re happy to share the first [...]

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Lessons Learned From #TSW2012

April 16, 2012

We were happy to support Triangle Startup Weekend as sponsors, andI was fortunate enough to participate by pitching an idea, putting a team together, and launching an MVP. Below are five lessons I learned from the experience. 1) No talk, all action This is the unofficial mantra of participants during Startup Weekend. It’s amazing what you can [...]

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Guest Post – Jeremy Alles

March 15, 2012

I’m using the free version of AgileZen. The project I track is the development of a Windows Phone 7 app. We are 2 people working on this app. We were using Excel before AgileZen in order to track “tasks” to implement in our app – it was cumbersome and not flexible. Now with AgileZen, we [...]

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