Removing obstacles
This past month we published a blog post called Your Developers Aren't Slow. It was the result of observing a number of patterns, both qualitative (observing behavior), as well as quantitative (data on cycle time).
We had a feeling it would strike a chord with the developer community, and it did. It quickly became the most popular thing we've published: it's been viewed almost 120,000 times, and has been shared nearly 5,000 times on social media.
When I was a customer, one of the things I appreciated about Sprintly is that it helped me see the whole dev process. You can see who is overworked, who is blocked, and who might be stuck. A good manager doesn't blame their developers for being slow. Instead, they remove obstacles so that their team can do their best work.
Stay tuned for more data-driven blog posts! What would you like to see us cover in the future?
Thanks,
Justin Jackson
Product Marketing Manager
New Features: Log in with GitHub
Signing into Sprintly couldn’t be easier: you can now log in with GitHub. If you've already linked your Sprintly account to your GitHub account, you can already log in with GitHub. You no longer need to use your password!

Looking to start a new Sprintly account? You can also sign-up using GitHub! See how fast it is in this video.
Other Product Updates
We rolled out a number of changes to the Sprintly product over the past two weeks. Here is a rundown of our changes:
Comments Styling Improvements:
We implemented minor styling improvements for comments, specifically adding better visual cues for blockquotes, code blocks, and inline code tags.

Renamed Append & Prepend Buttons:

These two options are available on items in the Someday status. Clicking on the Append button moved the item to the bottom of the backlog. Clicking on the Prepend button moved it to the top of the backlog. We changed the name of the buttons so its functions were clearer. Append has been changed to “bottom” and Prepend has been changed to “top.”
Various Bug Fixes
- In certain conditions, adding new tags to an item removed existing tags. This has been resolved
- Fixed error when deleting comments
- Fixed positioning of cursor in add item modal and bulk-edit menu
- Fixed issue where editing product name failed
- Various CSS fixes specific to Firefox
- Fixed missing “Add Sub-Item to Story” button when item type is changed to Story
- Fixed display issue of blank Activity Feed view
It's our birthday!
Three years ago today, Sprintly was launched into private beta. The launch was covered by Techcrunch, which included a demo video of the original interface.
A lot has changed since then!

You can read more about our history in our culture docs.
We're thankful for the thousands of users who have joined us along the way. Here's to the next three years!
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