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How to write a good status update
This is a guest post from Baron Schwartz, Founder and CEO at VividCortex. I’ve seen my share of terrible status updates. As Founder and CEO of a SaaS platform for database performance management, VividCortex, I know the power of a great status update to build or destroy trust. Unfortunately, I see more bad status updates […]
Don’t know how to get feedback at work? Here are some practical ways to start
Peer feedback is so important to your career growth and development. But, what’s the best way to ask for it? Most companies have at least a yearly performance review process but in reality, the best way to continually grow and learn from your experiences at work is by getting feedback on a regular basis. Kim […]
How to bring your spreadsheet-loving team into Trello
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been dropped out of an email thread because a recipient forgot to reply all.
How to build a design system that will last
This is a guest blog post by UXPin. Design doesn’t scale easily because it’s a mixture of art and science. It’s traditionally been thought of as a cottage industry – a bunch of specialized folks crafting beautiful one-off solutions. [cta]But, with the recent surge of design roles industry-wide, the design world needs a more modular […]
Tame your inbox with the new Trello add-on for gmail
Ever since 1972, our inboxes have been expanding. Even today, email is still one of the most popular forms of communication: it’s often the first thing we check in the morning and the last thing we check before bed. Few (if any) of us, however, have become true email maestros, orchestrating our way to inbox zero.
The human side to scaling Jira: governance, change control, and more
When you think about growing your Jira instance what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Performance factors? Tactics and process? While all of these are critically important, and we’ve written documentation on what considerations to make when scaling, I’ve come to see that the human element to scaling is just as important – and often the most […]
Bitbucket Server 5.5 brings personal access tokens and rebase workflows
[cta]These days developing software can feel a lot like running in a relay race, pushing ever faster to pass the baton amongst your teammates. The quicker you can push new features, bug-fixes, or performance improvements out to your customers the greater the competitive edge in the market. There are many ways to improve speed overall, […]
7 overlooked biases that creep into your work (and undermine its success)
From cooking dinner to deciding which new project to tackle at work, you make a lot of decisions throughout the day. Some of these decisions are so automatic that you don’t even think about them. And the decisions that you do think about (and put hours of research into) may not be as objective and rational as you may think.
An agile workflow that keeps tasks flexible in Trello
The agile workflow has long been an effective strategy for programmers attempting to ship code in a timely fashion. Now those same theories are being adapted for non-technical workers, as well, as a way to prioritize getting things done using the best of agile project management.
Hipchat Data Center presents: 5 surprising ways enterprise teams are winning with ChatOps
There’s this rumor going around that ChatOps was the invention of start-ups. I don’t know about you, but I can think of several enterprise IT/Ops teams who started using chat to coordinate and troubleshoot over a decade ago. (Ok, back then we called it “instant messenger”. But still.) So I hope I don’t spoil the […]
Is a deep work deficiency stifling your productivity? An interview with Cal Newport
Here’s a challenge that’s harder than you might admit: Sit down with a project and focus on it, uninterrupted, for the next 90 minutes. No email, no chat, and no jumping between tasks.
We read 100 data breach notifications to make this guide (which we hope you’ll never need)
Nothing fills out the “worst-case scenario” column quite like a data breach. For the countless teams out there who work hard to protect their customers’ data, the idea of compromising that trust is a nightmare. Data breaches are on a lot of minds lately with the 2017 Equifax data breach, which exposed personal data from […]
How Samsung does lean ITIL® with Jira Service Desk
This is a guest blog written on behalf of Jack Harding, IT Consultant at Praecipio Consulting and Larry Brock, IT Chief of Staff at Samsung Austin R&D Center and Austin AUG Leader. Based on their presentation “The Power of Process: How Samsung Implemented ITIL” at Summit San Jose 2017. The IT team at Samsung’s Austin […]
How to bring remote teams together without a big offsite budget
The Trello team is distributed across the world, some co-located and some remote. So how do we bring everyone together to bond over a shared social experience when 65% of our team is not in the same office? The answer might surprise you.
Predictive Quality Analytics: delivering better quality, faster
This is a guest blog post by Atlassian Marketplace vendor, QMetry. Tracking and fixing bugs through automation and manual testing processes is becoming increasingly efficient. However efficient it may be to getting code shipped, the downside is, there’s no predictability to it. The next big thing that will alter the landscape of software testing is […]