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.

In the Spotlight: How Project Managers Use Tech to Reach Goals

Managing a team effectively requires the right people and the right tools. An easy rule that is hard to follow. In the spotlight this time is Maria Nordborg, Projectplace’s customer relationship manager. We discuss in this post the challenges facing project managers when it comes to retaining control over planning and project deliverables, while empowering teams...

5G and beyond – the age of full connectivity

The era of weak signals is drawing to a close. Full 5G connectivity is about to change your world of work forever. Flashback to 1973 when New York Motorola Engineer Martin Cooper made the first mobile phone call. A giant leap for mankind. Fast forward to today, and the handsets you hold are a thousand...

What do Gene Kim, Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery Have in Common? Pretty much Everything.

We are just back from the Agile, Continuous Delivery and DevOps Transformation Summit and, from what we can tell it more than lived up to its promotion. For three days, software development and delivery professionals availed themselves of talks, educational sessions, vendor information and networking in the beautiful Bay Area. It’s our understanding that this...

Lean Metrics Webinar: Measure and Improve the Flow of Work

Watch this webinar recording to learn how managing your work via a Kanban system gives you the tools to measure and improve your team’s effectiveness. About this Webinar I’ll provide an introduction to Lean Metrics that includes: – What to track, including total WIP, blockers, throughput, and lead time – How to analyze these metrics...

Checklist for Successful Project Management [Infographic]

As a project manager, you’re facing battles every day. We know. Budgets are stretched, deadlines are tight and a mountain of emails is growing by the minute. Thankfully, times are changing. By shifting focus, using the right tools and staying on track you’ll leverage your project from a state of pain and stress – to success....

New Tasktop Data product launched with Tasktop 4.0, unlocks Agile, ALM and DevOps

From Galileo’s telescope to the scanning electron microscope, scientific progress has been punctuated by the technology that enabled new forms of measurement. Yet in the discipline of software delivery, robust measurement has been elusive. When I set out on a mission to double developer productivity, I ended up spending a good portion of my PhD...

Serenity now – achieving simplicity in a busy world

Do you remember what tv character George Costanza’s father occasionally used to scream when things got heated in a hugely famous ’90s sitcom? Even if you literally haven’t done the same, I bet you have felt like screaming “serenity now!” more than once. Ask yourself what’s your schedule like this week, and start to do...

Connecting Microsoft TFS, Visual Studio Online and ServiceNow

I’m very excited to share this video with Tasktop followers, partially because I’ve been promising it for upwards of 3 months (Tom, Sam, and Will: sorry for the delays), and partially because this has been an interesting integration case that customers are asking for more and more. Conceptually, large companies are having to deal with...

How to Run Effective Standups and Retrospectives

Step three of The Kanban Roadmap: How to Get Started in 5 Steps As a systems-thinking methodology, Kanban calls for team members to take collective responsibility for team priorities. Rich conversations about the work are a must-have. They help the team discover bottlenecks, resolve issues, focus on flow, and continuously improve their process. To facilitate these...

Time to put Security into the Software Development Lifecycle

On September 4, 2014 WhiteHat and Tasktop announced their partnership, while simultaneously introducing the WhiteHat Integration Server. The WhiteHat Integration Server is an OEM of Tasktop Sync technology, which includes a connector to WhiteHat Sentinel, and a selection of connectors. The addition of security to the Tasktop ecosystem is important for so many reasons. Security...