Work Management for Teams

In today’s project-driven, 24/7 economy, collaborating is a way of life. Typically, modern teams, work with people both inside and outside the company and across the globe to meet deadlines and complete projects on time. Our work collaboration blog category shows you what to look for in a project/work collaboration solution to effectively execute projects and manage teams, tasks, and deadlines. Whether on a team of 5 or 25, learn how to use the best tools when trying to set goals, create a plan, track progress, share documents, and monitor progress. We can help you look for adaptable solutions that are closely related to enterprise social networking platforms.

A Day in the Life of a Marketer

Four capabilities of project collaboration tools to help marketing managers work smarter As a Marketing Manager, your typical workday runs the gamut. 8:00am – 9:00am: Grab coffee! Check your email looking for urgent requests and respond to vendors, agencies, and partners and check calendar. Return phone calls. This is a reoccurring task that lasts all...

Kanban Flow: 5 Ways to Deliver Value Faster

“Don’t ‘over control’ like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.” — Donald Rumsfeld Kanban enables teams to achieve a continuous flow of work, and is focused on optimizing an organization’s ability to deliver value to its customer. Achieving steady Kanban flow within your system...

How to Get Started with Continuous Improvement

Not sure how to get started with continuous improvement? Understanding how to use data to drive improvement efforts can be challenging: Watch this webinar for actionable steps that will help you jumpstart your continuous improvement initiatives. Driving Change with Data In this webinar, you’ll learn how to: Set up boards to highlight opportunities for improvement. Use...

JIRA and Kanban vs. Planview AgilePlace

JIRA, Kanban Boards, and Planview AgilePlace Kanban is used across many types of organizations to visualize work, limit work in progress, focus on flow and create an environment of continuous delivery. If you’ve ever used or considered using a Kanban tool, you’ve probably encountered Kanban in JIRA. While JIRA technically provides Kanban functionality, it doesn’t...

Secrets of an Elite Project Manager

We have gathered insights from three top project management experts, with decades of experience between them, to shed light into what goes into project management success. Learn how to become an Elite Project Manager in our brand new eBook that is out now. Download Secrets of an Elite Project Manager One of those interviewed was VP...

Choosing a Kanban App: 7 Things You Need to Consider

Choosing a Kanban App Kanban apps are increasingly adopted by enterprises looking for ways to optimize workflow processes and accelerate value delivery. While teams may start out using a physical Kanban board, the need to streamline communication between distributed and cross-functional teams quickly prompts most teams to adopt a Kanban app. Using a Kanban web app...

Continous Integration Testing for a Rainy Day

In an increasingly Cloud-centric world, we need to build and support an ever-growing list of SaaS SDLC integrations. That includes tools like Atlassian Cloud (JIRA), Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team Services, and HPE’s new Octane ALM offering. Supporting Cloud-based integrations poses some interesting challenges: Cloud vendors typically choose a high cadence release cycle relative to on-premise...

OpsDev – Mobile App Issues from Ops to the Delivery Teams with Tasktop Sync

We all know that Mobile Apps need to work flawlessly to impress. Slow performance or crashing apps are not tolerated, a study in 2015 showed that 53% of users will uninstall or remove a mobile app if it stops responding or crashes. Apps that perform slowly or drain battery life aren’t tolerated either. What if...

Help Your Organization Avoid DevOps, Agile, & Lean Transformation Failures with Tasktop and Vivit

Vivit, an independent, non-profit organization representing the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) software community, aims to foster education, community building, and advocacy for its members. Since Tasktop’s mission is to connect the world of software delivery, it only makes sense for Tasktop to be involved in the conversation. With 76 local chapters spanning 28 countries and...

Building a Cross-Platform Desktop Application with AngularJS and Java

Building cross-platform desktop applications usually means compromising on user experience, ease of development or both. Below I detail the reasoning and trade-offs behind an approach that involves state of the art technologies and development methodology with fewer compromises. Web technologies (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) are arguably the best choice for a cross-platform UI in most...