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Agile
Have you ever considered the benefits of having a meeting with your team daily? While it may initially sound dull, inefficient, or like a time-waster, a stand-up meeting aims to be the complete opposite. Designed to replace lengthy and unproductive meetings, this concept can become an invaluable tool for your
Agile
Daily stand-ups are the heartbeat of Scrum and have also made their way into several Kanban-practicing teams. But, as popular as dailies are, some people just seem to not like them at all. The main issue related to stand-ups is that they can quickly become meetings where some attendees end
Remote Work
First coined by Corey Ladas in 2009, Scrumban is a term that defines a system that incorporates Scrum-based frameworks with Kanban practices to help teams better organize and be more efficient. Ladas worked for 10 years at Microsoft, where he had the chance to develop and test the ideas that
Agile
Hybrid work came to stay. When rightfully executed, it can lead to year-on-year productivity improvement rates of even 13%, as this Great Place to Work two-year study states. A set-up that meets both in-person and remote facilities needs should allow your team to keep an Agile communication flow, especially during
Agile
If your Daily Stand-ups are taking longer than 15 minutes, you surely are doing something wrong. Whether it is people giving way too many details or trying to solve a task during the meeting, you cannot afford to keep them messy. It is slowing you down and hurting your budget.
Productivity
Keeping your team's work fully transparent for every member is crucial. This will help you stay away from a lot of inefficiencies in your team that come from a team member not knowing the status of another's work. Transparency helps to avoid these work bottlenecks and
Agile
Last year Atlassian announced the acquisition of all of the Stride and Hip-Chat intellectual property by Slack. A decision that definitely caught us, SoftwareDevTools, and other Developers of Stride apps by surprise. However, at that time, we already had a Slack version of that very same bot we developed for
Bots
Since the very beginning of SoftwareDevTools, we have been obsessed with the way remote and onsite teams collaborate. When we first launched PlanningWith.Cards as a Hangouts plugin we knew that chat platforms would be the cutting edge for high-performance teams and this thesis has not let us down. We