Author: Alex Carter
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Making Release Notes User-Friendly for Your Audience
If your company makes release notes, it’s important to remember that your audience is your user base. As your user base will be reading these informative documents, it’s important to remember that: Therefore, if your release notes are overly technical, and don’t explain to your audience why they should care, likely your release notes aren’t…
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The Art of Release Notes: Typical Problems and How to Address Them
Every company releasing software updates should have release notes – technical documentation that outlines recent changes, features and enhancements, or bug fixes. Typically, the job of drafting release notes falls to the product manager – who may or may not be much of a wordsmith. However, release notes are essential as they explain to a…
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Public Slack Channels for Developers
In a previous blog, we discussed public Slack channels for testers. However, Slack has a wide variety of channels on topics of all kinds. Even developers can benefit from jumping into public Slack channels. With easy usability and a low barrier to entry, public Slack channels are a great way to stay up to date…
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Helpful (and Public!) Slack Channels for Software Testers
Slack is an excellent platform for project managers and individual teams. However, it might also be uniquely suited to helping software testers as well. Did you know Slack has an abundance of external groups who share similar interests? Accessing a public Slack channel can help Software Testers share best practices and collaborate in new and…
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GitHub’s Latest Security Features (Plus: How to Stay Safe)
During the course of 2020, GitHub unveiled various updates to help keep users of the platform (and their work) more secure. Here are a few of the highlights. Five of GitHub’s 2020 Security Updates Dependency Review is in Beta GitHub’s dependency review empowers users to understand their dependencies – before they introduce them into their…
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2020: A Year of Slack Updates That Make Collaboration Even Easier
Slack is continuously updating its platform to make collaboration more accessible and respond to its users’ needs. 2020 was no different, and saw dozens of changes to the platform. If you want to stay up-to-date on the latest changes, Slack posts regularly to their Changelog in their Help Center. We’re highlighting a few of our…
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Extend GitHub’s Capabilities with Apps from Their Own Marketplace
Companies and coders around the world use GitHub for its ease of use and flexibility. There’s even more to love when it comes to GitHub, as it, like Jira, Slack, and other platforms, there’s an entire marketplace available. This includes plugins that make the platform even more useful and user-friendly. It also allows users to…
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Creating and Maintaining Office Culture for Remote Teams
With so many teams continuing to work remotely, it’s hard to maintain a distinctive office culture – especially for a startup. Office culture used to be a strong selling point, drawing talent away from more prominent companies that may have offered more bells and whistles to impressive candidates. However, now big and small companies alike…
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How Project Managers Can Leverage Automation
Let’s face it – as project managers, we have a LOT of admin. Projects big and small have many moving pieces that need to be monitored and followed up on. However, often, a lot of those moving pieces end up being redundant or a time suck, forcing project managers to constantly focus on repetitive tasks.…