Product Management requires a broad understanding of several disciplines. Good thing this blog is here to help you.
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
The problem is not your team, or the process. The problem are your outputs. Based on an article by Leon Tranter. If you are part of a software development team that uses Agile methodologies, then you know that the key to your team’s continuous improvement in the long term
Agile Retrospectives
One way in which many teams introduce Agile practicing is by running Retrospective sessions. These are intimate discussions where peers review the past work cycle regarding what went well, what didn't, and what could be improved. There's a growing trend of professional teams that leverage the
Agile
In software development, time is a central concept, and delivering value as early as possible is a primary driver for the industry. Teams build products to save users precious time, and these tools are made in a prioritized fashion, mitigating waste. Even though many teams use Agile frameworks to successfully
Software Estimation
Estimating the amount of effort or time a task will take always seems inaccurate, so why do it anyway? Meeting with the team to do estimates may consume some hours as well. There even exists a #NoEstimates movement that aims to eradicate it. While some consider estimating a waste, it
Agile
The SoftwareDevTools team considers Retrospectives so valuable that not only do we run them frequently, we have also developed a tool that makes it really easy to perform them. And there is also a whole section dedicated to them in this blog. You can say we are really into reviewing
Atlassian
A while ago, Atlassian published a blog post under the title 4 Confluence add-ons to take your team’s collaboration to the next level.. We consider it to be helpful advice, specially for those teams who crave for more unified and better aligned workflows among teams. Confluence may be really
Tools
Once I had a job where my primary mission was to properly implement the usage of a CRM they had acquired some months ago. Would you guess which was the most challenging part? It was not to develop a functional data structure, integrate it with other platforms, or customize its
Agile Retrospectives
The key point of doing Sprint Retrospectives is helping your team to keep nourishing a continuous improvement spirit in a concrete and fast manner to effectively implement its outcomes. Retrospectives purpose, in a high-level sense, is to “plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness”, as stated on Scrum.org, and
Customer Support
Last week, part of the SoftwareDevTools team had the opportunity to make it to Santiago de Chile for a special event: #FreshDay19. Freshday is a special all-day event to talk about everything Freshworks for their Latin American user base. It is obviously sponsored by Freshworks and is hosted by its
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
Agile
SoftwareDevTools publishes #AgileTalks. A series of video interviews with Agilistas worldwide. We discuss several topics that are of interest for Agile methodologies practitioners. On one of our latest conversations, we had the chance to sit down with Reese Schmit to discuss the importance of Agile communities. Reese is an Agile
Agile
This post is based on Ben Linders' blog When working with remote #Agile teams, even though the team can't gather in one location, you still want to have efficient and valuable Agile Retrospectives to get yourself in the way of continuous development. We've already written
Agile
February 6th is a special day for the Agile community worldwide. February 6th was the #WorldRetrospectiveDay, a volunteer-based, globally coordinated effort to share in the power of retrospectives in different communities. And SoftwareDevTools is proud to have been part of it. we took the chance to share best practices, to
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
Agile
SoftwareDevTools is making a Harvard Business Review Review (catchy title, huh!?). In 2016, #Agile legend Jeff Sutherland wrote an article with Management Experts Darrell K. Rigby, & Hirotaka Takeuchi, the article is called: "Embracing Agile". In the article, the authors describe 6 crucial practices for leaders to adopt