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,...
Update: With Planio Storage there now is an even better alternative to Dropbox. Using SparkleShare with Planio still works but is no longer supported. Dropbox is probably the best known cloud storage provider on the market. But it comes with a catch...
There’s an old internet rumor that the total cost of supporting Internet Explorer 6 would have handily covered the cost of a manned expedition to Mars. I had a quick look in our Google Analytics account, and I’m happy to say that over the last year...
It all started back in Spring 2015 when Jan and I were playing around with Planio’s typography and the colors directly in the CSS. In an hour the look and feel of Planio changed so drastically that we wanted to go further and ship a redesigned Planio...
You start out as a developer, and your job is to develop a new feature, to write a few tests and fix some bugs. You might work with a designer. You’ll have interactions with managers of various titles such as product owners or product managers. Ideally...
A well-organized issue tracker will make it easier to handle issues that arise in your company. Issues such as customer support requests get lost in a sea of email. That’s where issue trackers step in. They let you track an issue from creation to closure...
When you log in to your account, you’ll see the option to switch on the new user interface of Planio in the sidebar if you are an administrator. Before we get into the details, here’s a preview of what it looks like: Pretty, right? So, What’s New in the...
Update: We've published a new blog post with the ultimate hands-on guide on how to implement Scrum in your team. Scrum evolved out of a problem: software projects were coming in way over budget and way too late. A team would have a software project...
The CJEU's Recent Ruling and their Consequences for Organizations in Europe What was Safe Harbor About? EU organizations are not allowed to transfer personal data to countries outside the EU unless they guarantee adequate levels of protection. Safe...
Git is tightly integrated into Planio. You can manually link a Git commit to an issue in Planio in the repository viewer. You might want to avoid this duplication of effort and save some time. You can reference particular issues, update issue statuses...