Agile

Asana

thredUP has been using Basecamp as our project management tool since before I started in September of 2010. We're an agile development team and it's important for us to have a collaboration tool to manage our user stories as well as organize our projects/sprints. Our sprints are two weeks long. We develop for the first 10 days, test the code on staging servers internally, iterate, deploy the code, reflect with a retrospective, and then move onto the next sprint. We move very fast and it...

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Working for a Start-up: Sprinting for the Win

thredUP operates in 2-week sprints. This means that every two weeks teams are either transitioning to or already working on their next project. Personally, I love this project management methodology and would urge other teams/companies to look into this strategy for a variety of reasons. Since I didn't create this idea and am not in the position to make strategic decisions of this nature, I'll only give you the perspective of someone on the ground floor working in sprints and how it impacts...

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