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...
Redmine plugins build on core functionality of Redmine for special use cases or time-saving additions. You’ll find that plugins range from large functions such as managing customer support requests or resource allocation to very small features such...
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,...
Dropbox is probably the best known cloud storage provider on the market. But it comes with a catch: they store your data on servers in the United States. Now, up until recently, that wasn’t a problem, because they self-certified under the “Safe Harbor...
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...
Hier geht’s zur deutschsprachigen Version dieses Artikels. 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...