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So named after the magnificent king of the Taiga, the Black Bear, which the Native American Indians considered a symbol for the free spirit; surely something we can all aspire to become!

So named after the magnificent king of the Taiga, the Black Bear, which the Native American Indians considered a symbol for the free spirit; surely something we can all aspire to become! Photo by By Steve Hillebrand, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ... [More] (Public domain) Many important things have taken place on May 3rd's: in 1965 satellite TV was used for the first time, In 1851 much of San Francisco was destroyed by Fire, or more apropos, in 1654 the Bridge at Rowley, Massachusetts began charging a toll for crossing animals. So May 3rd then is the day we at Taiga begin charging a toll (modest and fair - we hope) for our service. It's our way of building a sustainable business to continue delivering a service that will increasingly delight and support your own work. We look forward to having you as a happy, paying customers. Naturally, our free plans will remain in place. There are a few goodies in this release: Added sprint title on search results for user stories Projects are becoming more and more complicated to manage, we respond to that with an enhancement that makes it easier to search and filter User Stories. if a User Story is already included in a sprint, it will be visible on the search results. Thanks to @everblut New support page We have a new fresh new look for our support page. It's better organized and seeks to provide answers quicker. You can help us continue to improve the content by contribute to it in our Github repo Taiga Tutorials at Taiga.pm Oh, and please check out the awesome work by our friends at Taiga.pm. This is a very cool, completely unsolicited, blow your mind generous work from members of the Taiga community! If you are onboarding new users or want people to fly through, simple Taiga tutorials, this is a must! Improved our webhooks We've received many an email with suggested improvements for our webhooks. We hear you, and here are the first batch of improvements. Developers rejoice: We added permalinks to keep the reference of the update. Seriously improved our webhooks data. Improved webhook legibility on changes. CSV reports To enhance your reports we added two long awaited fields. The estimated sprint start and end fields. Is that all? Of course not! We nailed many small and not so small bugs and made a good number of small fixes. Happy Spring! [Less]

To celebrate beautiful hairy things, we've name Taiga 2.0 the Pulsatilla Patens release, named after this beautiful purple, slightly hairy flower native to Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China, Canada and the United States. And why not? It's been hairy ... [More] getting to 2.0, but it is indeed beautiful (code). Photo by NPS / Jacob W. Frank: Denali National Park and Preserve Whew! This is our 11th release in 18 months! The only people busier than we are are you -- the 120,000 registered Taiga users who've initiated over 450,000 user stories! Wow! So 2.0 is chock full of stuff. With no further ado: Paid Plans If there's anything we love more than an 18-month free ride, it's being able to pay our bills. As an Open Source tool, we will continue to offer our tool for free either as a self-install, or on our cloud for those of you who don't mind sharing your projects publicly on Taiga But alas, some services, namely the ability to keep projects private will incur a (modest, we think) fee. But even then, you will still get one private project as part of our free plan! But if you want privacy for 2 or more projects, the time has come to register for a payment plan. If this applies to you, starting now and until April 30, 2016 you can (must) pre-register for one of paid plans by going to you user settings. Pre-Register for a paid plan now. You will not be charged until April 30th for your first month of service in May. If you dot not pre-registered prior to April 30, your account will be inaccessible starting May 1st. You will be able to unblock it by making projects private or subscribing to a plan. Your data WILL NOT be erased. Feel free to contact us at [email protected]  if you have any special needs, issuances of Purchase Orders, etc. Transfer Ownership People come and go. Now, if needed, a project owner can transfer ownership to another member. Any user with admin privileges can request the current owner to transfer ownership to them. Ownership Badge Who owns ya baby? To make sure all the members of a project know who has ownership privileges, we've added a "badge" that identifies the project owner. Be aware that the project owner is the only one with the permissions to subscribe to a paid plan. Create URL custom fields Sometimes is great to use a nice reference to an external link to complete the description of your User Story, Task or issue. Thanks to Δndrea Stagi (@astagi) we have a new URL field type. Easy to add in your custom fields! On self Hosted instances: Limit number of users and projects (both private & public) If you run your own Taiga instance, you can now limit the number of members any given project can have or the number of private or public projects a user can own. New icon design We've squeezed better performance and have created a more unified an aesthetic experience by redesigning our icons. Get them at the Taiga Open Design Repository Redesigned Project Wizard There's a new interface for the wizard that helps you create new projects. Redesigned the Module panel There's a new interface for the panel that helps you activate and deactivate Taiga modules. Is that all? Of course not! We nailed many small and not so small bugs and made a good number of small fixes. [Less]

To celebrate beautiful hairy things, we've name Taiga 2.0 the Pulsatilla Patens release, named after this beautiful purple, slightly hairy flower native to Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China, Canada and the United States. And why not? It's been hairy ... [More] getting to 2.0, but it is indeed beautiful (code). Photo by NPS / Jacob W. Frank: Denali National Park and Preserve Whew! This is our 11th release in 18 months! The only people busier than we are are you -- the 120,000 registered Taiga users who've initiated over 450,000 user stories! Wow! So 2.0 is chock full of stuff. With no further ado: Paid Plans If there's anything we love more than an 18-month free ride, it's being able to pay our bills. As an Open Source tool, we will continue to offer our tool for free either as a self-install, or on our cloud for those of you who don't mind sharing your projects publicly on Taiga But alas, some services, namely the ability to keep projects private will incur a (modest, we think) fee. But even then, you will still get one private project as part of our free plan! But if you want privacy for 2 or more projects, the time has come to register for a payment plan. If this applies to you, starting now and until April 30, 2016 you can (must) pre-register for one of paid plans by going to you user settings. Pre-Register for a paid plan now. You will not be charged until April 30th for your first month of service in May. If you dot not pre-registered prior to April 30, your account will be inaccessible starting May 1st. You will be able to unblock it by making projects private or subscribing to a plan. Your data WILL NOT be erased. Feel free to contact us at [email protected]  if you have any special needs, issuances of Purchase Orders, etc. Transfer Ownership People come and go. Now, if needed, a project owner can transfer ownership to another member. Any user with admin privileges can request the current owner to transfer ownership to them. Ownership Badge Who owns ya baby? To make sure all the members of a project know who has ownership privileges, we've added a "badge" that identifies the project owner. Be aware that the project owner is the only one with the permissions to subscribe to a paid plan. Create URL custom fields Sometimes is great to use a nice reference to an external link to complete the description of your User Story, Task or issue. Thanks to Δndrea Stagi (@astagi) we have a new URL field type. Easy to add in your custom fields! On self Hosted instances: Limit number of users and projects (both private & public) If you run your own Taiga instance, you can now limit the number of members any given project can have or the number of private or public projects a user can own. New icon design We've squeezed better performance and have created a more unified an aesthetic experience by redesigning our icons. Get them at the Taiga Open Design Repository Redesigned Project Wizard There's a new interface for the wizard that helps you create new projects. Redesigned the Module panel There's a new interface for the panel that helps you activate and deactivate Taiga modules. Is that all? Of course not! We nailed many small and not so small bugs and made a good number of small fixes. [Less]

To celebrate beautiful hairy things, we've name Taiga 2.0 the Pulsatilla Patens release, named after this beautiful purple, slightly hairy flower native to Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China, Canada and the United States. And why not? It's been hairy getting to 2.0, but it is indeed beautiful (code).

Your Award-winning Open Source Agile Project Management tool has a new release Taiga 1.10, which we named Dryas Octopetala after a gorgeous small plant living in the arctic Taiga. Photo by the Institute of Botany (Section Plant Ecology), University ... [More] of Basel Sheer envy led us to the name of this release; how much more could we be doing with eight arms instead of 2? Perhaps not much. We've been flat out, working on very significant updates to Taiga, the release of the upcoming and very cool Taiga Tribe and getting ready for the Taiga paid plans which we need to ensure we keep our lights on! Here are some the highlights from this release: Discover public projects The platform we always imagined (and decided to build) not only needed to be beautiful and intuitive, it needed to be "place" where we could congregate to learn and help each other. Today we are proud to announce our new searchable directory of Public Projects. Explore backlogs, timelines, issues, and teams. Check out the most liked or most active projects. Filter by Kanban or Scrum. Curious to see what it's all about? Once you're logged in, click on the new "globe" icon on top navigation bar. Or click here! Important if you are a project owner If you enabled “view” rights for “External Users”, some of your project modules may be publicly visible to Taiga members and other anonymous users. If you did intend your projects to remain completely private, be sure all the “view” permissions for the member “External Users” have been disabled in your admin panel (admin rights required). Click here for more information. Improved project profile Now that people can see your project (if its public) dress it up. Add a nice logo image, a short, memorable description use tags that define your work. Do this even if your project is private, you still want to look good for the ones in the know. Find people to contribute in your project If you are looking for people to contribute to your project, edit your project profile and tell the community what do you need. Share your project with the world and let other help. Drag and drop attachments from your desktop to Taiga A better and improved attachments UI requires a better attachments management. Just drag and drop your attachments from the desktop into the attachments module or in the detail description to upload images. Fast! Improved Attachment Handling Save time by dragging attachments from your desktop to the attachments section or into WYSIWYG areas. There is now an attachments image gallery in detail pages. Also mush easier light box-enabled attachment uploading to User Stories, Issues and Tasks. Assign to me button Sometimes, if you want something done well, you just have to do it yourself. If that's the case with you, now when a Story, task or issue are unassigned, you can quickly assign it to yourself. Shout out to @allistera, Taiga.io community member who developed this for us all. Under the hood improvements New design for the detail pages sidebar. Upload attachments on US/issue/task lightbox. Drag files from desktop to attachments section. Drag files from desktop in wysiwyg textareas. Sticky project navigation bar. Add swedish (sv) translation. Add turkish (tr) translation. Lots of small and not so small bugfixes. [Less]

Your Award-winning Open Source Agile Project Management tool has a new release Taiga 1.10, which we named Dryas Octopetala after a gorgeous small plant living in the arctic Taiga. Photo by the Institute of Botany (Section Plant Ecology), University ... [More] of Basel Sheer envy led us to the name of this release; how much more could we be doing with eight arms instead of 2? Perhaps not much. We've been flat out, working on very significant updates to Taiga, the release of the upcoming and very cool Taiga Tribe and getting ready for the Taiga paid plans which we need to ensure we keep our lights on! Here are some the highlights from this release: Discover public projects The platform we always imagined (and decided to build) not only needed to be beautiful and intuitive, it needed to be "place" where we could congregate to learn and help each other. Today we are proud to announce our new searchable directory of Public Projects. Explore backlogs, timelines, issues, and teams. Check out the most liked or most active projects. Filter by Kanban or Scrum. Curious to see what it's all about? Once you're logged in, click on the new "globe" icon on top navigation bar. Or click here! Important if you are a project owner If you enabled “view” rights for “External Users”, some of your project modules may be publicly visible to Taiga members and other anonymous users. If you did intend your projects to remain completely private, be sure all the “view” permissions for the member “External Users” have been disabled in your admin panel (admin rights required). Click here for more information. Improved project profile Now that people can see your project (if its public) dress it up. Add a nice logo image, a short, memorable description use tags that define your work. Do this even if your project is private, you still want to look good for the ones in the know. Find people to contribute in your project If you are looking for people to contribute to your project, edit your project profile and tell the community what do you need. Share your project with the world and let other help. Drag and drop attachments from your desktop to Taiga A better and improved attachments UI requires a better attachments management. Just drag and drop your attachments from the desktop into the attachments module or in the detail description to upload images. Fast! Improved Attachment Handling Save time by dragging attachments from your desktop to the attachments section or into WYSIWYG areas. There is now an attachments image gallery in detail pages. Also mush easier light box-enabled attachment uploading to User Stories, Issues and Tasks. Assign to me button Sometimes, if you want something done well, you just have to do it yourself. If that's the case with you, now when a Story, task or issue are unassigned, you can quickly assign it to yourself. Shout out to @allistera, Taiga.io community member who developed this for us all. Under the hood improvements New design for the detail pages sidebar. Upload attachments on US/issue/task lightbox. Drag files from desktop to attachments section. Drag files from desktop in wysiwyg textareas. Sticky project navigation bar. Add swedish (sv) translation. Add turkish (tr) translation. Lots of small and not so small bugfixes. [Less]

Your Award-winning Open Source Agile Project Management tool has a new release Taiga 1.10, which we named Dryas Octopetala after a gorgeous small plant living in the arctic Taiga.

Though they sound similar in a functional manner, user stories and tasks are quite different aspects of agile methodology. Still, many of us use the terms user story and tasks interchangeably. Not only this causes confusion, but also keeps you from ... [More] reaping the full benefits of your agile work culture. Until and unless you clearly know the terms and their meanings, you will not be able to follow the best practices. So, let’s try to clearly understand the difference between user stories and tasks. Let’s be clear - the difference that user stories go to the product backlog and tasks go to sprint backlog after sprint planning is not valid. It doesn’t explain the difference but just tell what goes where. We are looking to understand the exact meaning and the proper application of the terms. So, let’s start with the definitions. 'Matrioskes', photo by Miquel Bohigas Costabella User Story A user story - simply put, is a way to define a software feature from an end-user perspective. For example, a user story may look like "As a user, I want to be able to update my profile with age, present occupation and social interests, so that people visiting my profile page get an idea of my interests". Generally, it is good to follow this template: As a , I want to be able to so that . This gives the developers a clear idea of what they need to develop and why. User stories are generally added in the product backlog, but in some cases they can even be added to sprint backlog based on the judgement of scrum master. Another important aspect of developing a user story is that, it usually involves a programmer and tester, perhaps a user interface designer or analyst, a database designer, or others. It is rare for a user story to be fully developed by a single person. Even when that happens, the person would be filling multiple of those roles. Read more about user stories in our previous blog post. Tasks Sometimes it makes sense to break a user story down into the work that needs to be done. In calling out the tasks needed to build a story, the development team engages in an act of shared design. Tasks are not normally written in user story format. Instead, they are written by the team, for the team, so use language the team will understand. A task is a piece of work that needs doing, usually in order to build toward a bigger story. As such, it does not have independent deliverable functionality or generate business value, and, unlike a story, it normally is not a vertical (end-to-end) slice. Most tasks tend to be for programmers, but they could be for anyone on the team. In contrast With the definitions of user stories and tasks, it is clear that user stories help in defining specific features of the end product from a user’s perspective. But if the user story holds a lot of information and can’t be used as a single unit of work, i.e. if the user story involves lots of activities that need to be broken down further, then we use tasks. Tasks may not represent whole lot of information in terms of user perspective, but they certainly help in make sure the developer has a well defined activity on his desk. Adding user stories in Taiga To add a user story, you need to first create a project with Scrum template. You can then go to the Backlog page and click on the Add a new user story button, new form appears, fill up the details and stories are added. All the users stories can be seen listed in the User story section. Next step is to add a user story to a sprint. To do so, select a user story by clicking on the small checkbox in its front. This will reveal a new button above- Move to current sprint. Click on this button to add the user story to the current sprint. Want to see this in action? Here is the video explaining the steps in detail: [Less]

Though they sound similar in a functional manner, user stories and tasks are quite different aspects of agile methodology. Still, many of us use the terms user story and tasks interchangeably. Not only this causes confusion, but also keeps you from ... [More] reaping the full benefits of your agile work culture. Until and unless you clearly know the terms and their meanings, you will not be able to follow the best practices. So, let’s try to clearly understand the difference between user stories and tasks. [Less]