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Stormboard News | April 2020

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The Ultimate Guide To Working Remotely

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If you find yourself working 100% remotely for the first time, you’re not alone. 

We understand that keeping your team aligned and productive is top of mind right now as you are transitioning to working from home. It is more important than ever to collaborate effectively and make communication and the sharing of ideas as easy as possible in order to continue to move your work forward. 

We've pulled together a bunch of resources, tips, and best practices to help you with your transition. 

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Agile PI Planning: The Story Behind Stormboard's Jira Integration

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Agile Pi Planning with both in-person and remote teams can be a major challenge, and one that we recently tackled with one of our long-term regulated Fortune 100 customers. 

This global organization has hundreds of developers who work with multiple products across dozens of teams, and were migrating their Agile practices to PI Planning following the SAFe methodology. 

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Are you interested in Agile PI Planning with Azure DevOps?
Our integration is now LIVE

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How To Set Up Your Remote Workspace to Get Work Done

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With physical distancing and self-isolation now a necessity, most employees are currently working from home. For those familiar with working remotely, this will be a pretty seamless transition, but for those who aren’t, shifting from the office to the home office can be a bit of a challenge.  

Working from home requires rules and boundaries for a successful transition, but generally — after a bit of a set-up period — productivity shouldn’t suffer with a distributed team. 

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Have You Checked Out The NEW Dashboard Yet? 

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Your Stormboard Dashboard has a whole new look and a new Folder feature that will make your work even more organized and efficient. 

While the new look is available to everyone, the Folder feature is only for those who have Business or Enterprise Subscriptions. If you are interested in trying it out, sign up for a free trial and you will have access to all of the features for 30 days. 

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Stay Organized: How to Sort Your Storms 

You can sort your Storms (what we call your digital workspace) from your Dashboard in various ways. 

Sort by Alphabetical, Frequently Used, Recent Activity, or Starred. You can also show only Open Storms or Closed Storms.