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Beyond Scrum: Introducing Simple Scalable Agile Development [Video]
On 9/25/2012, Assembla and Perforce presented a webinar titled "Beyond Scrum: Introducing Simple Scalable Agile Development." It is very clear that this is a hot topic with over 1,000 people...
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Control Your Alerts with Notifications For Each Event
You can now select the frequency of email alerts for each type of event. You can have an Hourly Summary for your Ticket Events while having your Messages sent immediately and a Daily Summary for Team...
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The QA Conundrum - How Can We Move Faster?
How can we get more quality out of QA and move faster? Stop dumping your problems on them and put the responsibility on the appriopriate parties - the developers.People regard QA as the defenders of...
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Full-Featured Ticket/Task Management Tool in a Free Starter Package
Assembla’s free full-featured Tickets tool helps teams plan agile releases and collaborate on tasks.Months ago we announced our Agile Planner as a free starter package. Since then, we have improved...
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Avoiding Premature Integration or: How we learned to stop worrying and ship...
We have been writing about testing and tools in our day-to-day Continuous Delivery process. However, we did not write about our development workflow yet. So, here you go. Did we show you the graph?Just...
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The Future of Cloud Development: Where is it going? [Video]
Below is a recording from the September 26th event, "The Future of Cloud Development," where Andy Singleton, CEO of Assembla, digs deep into the changes affecting cloud-based application development....
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New Ticket Layout - We Listened to Your Feedback
Thank you everyone for giving us great feedback when we announced the new ticket layout a few weeks ago. We read every request and have implemented many of the requests.Shout Outs:Thank you Sara for...
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Beyond Scrum Roadmap
About six months ago, we started working internally on our "beyond Scrum" campaign to improve agile software development so that it works in a cloud-based world. As noted in my article, 7 Things I Hate...
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Old Ticket Layout Deprecation Notice
In November, we are deprecating the old Ticket tool layout across all Assembla projects. When we announced the new layout last month, we gave our users the option to switch back to the old layout and...
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The Three Agile Use Cases: Where Do You Fit In?
There are three distinct “use cases” for employing Agile techniques. They are based on different business challenges. They should be addressed by different Agile processes. If you don’t know which one...
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Assembla's Social Collaboration Pack Makes Real Time Feedback Fun
Over the past few months, Assembla has been improving the way team members communicate with each other.As a result of these efforts, we have seen measurable increases in traffic and collaboration...
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Edit-in-place for Tickets fields. Feels good
Markus, in place edit is finally here! You can now quickly edit tickets by clicking on the field you want edit in the left panel. Give it a try, its a breeze.Original Comment:"If you click on status...
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Take Control with the Continuous Delivery Dial
By now you know that Assembla supports continuous delivery, a process for releasing changes every day. We’ve offered up the secret sauce and explained our own experience. However, most teams cannot...
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Upcoming Webinar: Scaling Agile with Continuous Delivery and Subversion
On November 15, Assembla and WANdisco are presenting a webinar: Beyond Scrum: Scaling Agile with Continuous Delivery and SubversionAndy Singleton of Assembla and Scott Rudenstein of WANdisco will...
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Now you see it, now you don’t: The importance of feature switches
One of the essential techniques for continuous delivery, or any reliable release process, is the inclusion of switches in code to turn features on or off. You typically do by putting an IF statement...
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Ruby 1.9.3 Gets Some Subversion Love
At Assembla, we have been converting our apps over to Ruby 1.9.3 from 1.8.7. We had the GC patches applied to 1.8.7 and were in no hurry to switch to 1.9.3 (See graph below). One of our applications...
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Hello to Assembla's New API with OAuth2
Assembla has a problem, where we collect a lot of data and have so many different options on how to analyze and represent data, not to mention import, export, view, report, and organize for your use....
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Dogfooding and Guineapigging
You are probably aware that when developers use their own software, we say they are “eating the dog food.” This motivates them to improve usability, quality, and features. I’m going to mangle this...
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Announcing Assembla Auth Plugin for Jenkins
A while ago we changed our CI server to Jenkins at Assembla. We loved Jenkins at first sight and never looked back, and we are happy to officially announce an Auth Plugin for Jenkins.There is a burden...
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Build your Assembla Merge Requests Gangn..Err Gerrit style with Jenkins
If you hear someone talking about Gerrit, 99 times out of a 100 they will turn the discussion to their Jenkins setup (and oh boy, do I love speaking about Jenkins setups for different workflows!).We...
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