Introducing the Zen API

August 3, 2009

We’re happy to announce that last night, the first piece of the Zen API went live. You can use it to push and pull information between Zen and your own applications. Our plan is to roll the API out in phases, and this first step represents only the beginning of the functionality that the API [...]

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Zen and Team Mental Models

July 27, 2009

If you want to get your team on the same page, Zen can help. This is because the organization of information on the board is a clear representation of a project’s status. This makes it easy to understand a project at a glance, creating a shared "mental model" among members of a team. A mental [...]

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Our First Week

July 14, 2009

Zen has been open to the public for about a week now, and the response has been overwhelming. Over 1,000 users have signed up for an account, and many teams are actively using it to manage their projects.
We’re very excited to see that so many people are interested in a simple and flexible way to [...]

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Eating our own dog food

July 13, 2009

Zen is designed to be open-ended, so you can use it that way that’s most helpful for your team, and adjust how you work as you find new ways to become more efficient.
However, Zen’s flexibility can make it difficult to understand how to get started, so we thought it might be helpful to explain how [...]

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Multiple Accounts

July 13, 2009

We were hard at work over the weekend! The new version, which went live last night, includes several enhancements and minor bug fixes. Users can now log in with either their username or their email address – several users requested this feature, so we made it happen. Power to the people! :)
In addition, we introduced [...]

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Claiming and Deleting

July 10, 2009

We pushed a new version of the site last night, which among other things, added claim and delete buttons to the Story Details screen:

Clicking claim will immediately reassign the story to yourself. If you already own the story, the button will be disabled. This functionality was already available from the board, but now it’s [...]

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Thinking for yourself

July 9, 2009

I read an article recently called "Thinking for yourself in your context" is the heart of Lean. It stated that better efficiency in software development would be achieved if workers had shared goals, and that these goals should center around why you are implementing a feature rather than just how to do it. The point [...]

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A Few Tweaks

July 9, 2009

The site’s been open to the public for almost 48 hours now, and we’re very excited about the response we’ve seen! If you didn’t notice yesterday, we pushed a new version that fixed a few things.
First and foremost, we improved the workflow for adding collaborators to a project. Originally, you had to send an invitation [...]

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And We’re Off!

July 7, 2009

About a year ago, the ideas for Zen started to gel. After more long nights and working weekends than we can remember, we’re proud to announce that Zen is open to the public! We’d like to thank everyone for their support, especially those that tinkered with the product during the beta process — your feedback [...]

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Coming Soon

July 2, 2009

Welcome to our blog! We’ve been working for quite a while to create a simple, flexible, and cost-effective project management tool, and we’re very excited to see our work coming together. Our launch date is now only a few days away.
We would like to thank those who have offered feedback and well-wishes over the last [...]

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