We here at the Community group are in the process of writing dozens of tickets for the next 3 month period. We're covering all of the exciting new products and features we're planning on launching in that time period. And even though it's a little bit of a slog to get through them, at the end we're going to have an amazing backlog and our iterations are going to be worlds more efficient and gratifying. Plus, we're getting experience writing useful user stories.

User stories are one of the key aspects of Agile Methodologies. The goal of User Stories is to describe functionality of your application and its value for users or product owners. Since we work with RSpec and Cucumber, our user stories are all of the format:

As a ______

I want to ______

So that ______

This helps us capture who the feature is for, what they want to do, and why it's important for this feature to be implemented. Working with these stories will allow us to not only prioritize all of our tickets for our upcoming iterations, but it will constantly remind us why we wrote the stories in the first place.

Watch out over the coming months for awesome new stuff from the Community group!

It has been over thirty years since Bill Gates was involved in a startup, which became the mega company Microsoft, but he is at it again with his new company called bgC3.

The world must wait to see what this company is about, because Mr Gates is not giving us any clues.

Will this company compete with Microsoft ?