Set a Status, Set a Course for Agile Project Management ProdPad supports your company no matter what your development process is made of: Agile, Kanban, ScrumBan, Agile Jazz, or even good ol' fashioned waterfall. That said, most of our customers are using some form of Agile Project Management. And in line with that, one of our biggest requests was to allow you to set a… Janna Bastow August 14, 2013 2 minute read
How to Own your Product Ideas It's one thing to just enter an idea into ProdPad (in fact, it's incredibly easy as far as idea management software goes). But it's another to come up with the creative idea in the first place. And yet another to be the idea owner, the person with the vested interest in seeing that idea get turned… Janna Bastow July 25, 2013 4 minute read
GitHub Integration with ProdPad Following closely on the heels of the JIRA, Pivotal Tracker, and Trello integrations we launched recently, we now have a direct GitHub integration. Our goal is to give you and your team a smooth flow from ideation to product spec to development. With this, you'll be able to link your ideas and finished product specs… Janna Bastow June 25, 2013 2 minute read
Tech Tutorial: OAuth in JIRA As we announced recently, we've integrated ProdPad with JIRA. This allows you to push ideas and user stories across to JIRA, creating a link back and forth between the two apps. In the process of building this, I found the documentation for authentication in JIRA to be... let's say lacking. It was a process of… Simon Cast May 31, 2013 8 minute read
Integrate with JIRA, Trello, and Pivotal Tracker Great news for fans of JIRA, Pivotal Tracker and Trello! You can now push your finished product specs or user stories directly to your favorite project/task management tool using our direct integration. No more copying and pasting to get your product specs into the hands of your developers. Why these integrations? Our goal is to… Janna Bastow May 20, 2013 3 minute read
Want to meet in San Francisco? This week, our co-founder, Simon Cast, is in San Francisco. The city is packed with great startups, tech companies, and brilliant Product Managers, and we're planning to meet some of them while out there. Check your calendar If you're in town on Tuesday, April 9th, there's a ProductTank event happening. Come for a free round… Janna Bastow April 8, 2013 1 minute read
Introducing the Auto Roadmap Tool - Product Management Automagic! The ProdPad development lab has been hard at work to make life easy for Product Managers. We know that the hardest part of any product management role is determining exactly what should be built and when, compiling that knowledge into an easy-to-understand product roadmap, and then getting everyone to buy into the latest roadmap updates.… Janna Bastow April 1, 2013 3 minute read
Don't Use Project Management Tools For Product Management I'm seeing a troubling trend in product management. Too often, project management tools end up being the core tools used by product managers. However, project management and product management are distinct practices and by using a project management tool you are very possibly distorting the product management process to fit within the confines of the… Simon Cast March 25, 2013 3 minute read
Paving the Cowpaths - Log in how you like We noticed a pattern recently. People were resetting their passwords a lot, sometimes two or 3 times in a row. We couldn't figure out why people were struggling to get in, but when we looked a little deeper, we realized that a good 30% of users were logging in with their email address. Now, what's… Janna Bastow March 19, 2013 3 minute read
