Category: Collaboration Tools
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7 Tips to Get the Most Out of Miro
Miro, a digital whiteboard, can help teams co-create, ideate, and make meetings more meaningful with interactive brainstorming. It helps visualize concepts, can act as sticky notes, and is excellent for tracking ideas. Miro offers voting capabilities, sticky note visuals, timers, and more, making it a handy, flexible tool to bring teams together, spark conversation, and…
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Why Development Teams Need Time Tracking Software
Software development can be tricky for clients or even management to understand. A lot of human effort goes into coding and design. Yet, only some of it is visible to stakeholders until a tangible deliverable is presented. That only happens after many, many hours of work. If you manage a development team, you understand the…
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5 Best Continuous Integration Tools for DevOps in 2023
Continuous integration helps teams increase their development speed while ensuring code quality. With continuous commits of code released in tiny increments, items can more easily be built and tested before being merged into the shared repository. Continuous integration is excellent for development projects that remain open and ongoing as teams continue to refine products and…
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Top 5 best Microsoft Teams Integrations for Jira
Since Microsoft applications are pretty ubiquitous – especially in enterprise-level organizations, Teams is often leveraged as a communication tool to help teams communicate on projects and objectives. However, teams also need a platform that can handle project management and help everyone keep on top of tasks and deliverables, and many use Jira. Ideally, teams need…
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Top 5 Best Slack Integrations for Jira
Many organizations use Slack for team communication and Jira for project management and handling issues with ongoing software. However, having two separate platforms can become confusing when both are meant to communicate what needs to be done and what has already been actioned. The solution: link the two together! The great thing about both Slack…
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How to Manage the Process of Designing Apps
While, as a project manager, you typically deal with a project from beginning to end, the early process of designing an app takes notable precedent. Many of the decisions made here will decide on the future direction of the app. Special care must be taken to build in robust design to help ensure a successful…
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Kanban vs. Gantt Charts: Which Methodology is Better for Software Development Teams?
As a project manager, you’ve likely used both Kanban and Gantt charts at some point to help get an overview of projects, including who is working on what. They are great tools to showcase, at a high level, the moving pieces of different aspects of a project. However, which is the most useful for software…
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How To Set Up Projects for Success as a Project Manager
The work you do before a project starts matters just as much (and sometimes more) than what you do during a project. Having a smooth rollout, adhering to deadlines, and understanding who is responsible for what work must be clearly outlined before even one task is assigned. If you want your project to succeed, start…
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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…