StoryTime

Hi Friends,

StoryTime is for balanced teams that want to work with user stories.

Developed by a team of Pivotalumni, it aims to capture the best of tools we’ve used in the past, while improving on their weaknesses.

There are many tools available for the problems we want to address. We think you’ll find StoryTime compelling if you agree with some rough guiding principles:

• Teams (not individuals, or even pairs) are the fundamental unit of allocation.
• There is no story “priority," only position.
• Acceptance is an important concept.
• It’s better to work to select the right tools than to configure them to behave correctly.
• User stories are flexible, powerful, and useful for thinking and communicating about software.

StoryTime is very new. Because tools people count on are being retired, we’re pushing to preview as early as we can tolerate. We intend to invite people who sign up for updates to use the alpha version soon. We'll also soon share a public roadmap, in addition to writing more about our vision for StoryTime.

We're a small, bootstrapping team. We’re not going to take VC money to seek market share or usage numbers, or an exit. We don’t want to exit. We want this software to be available to people it fits with, for a price that's well worth it. We’re working to make that happen.

Always be kind,

Jesse, Nat, and Coby