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Articles and resources to help teams communicate effectively, remove distractions, and work better together.
Productivity & Estimation
5 Best Practices for Effective Team Meetings
Meetings don’t have to be something your team dreads or tries to avoid. The key is to make them effective and worthwhile. Check out these 5 best practices to get the most out of your meetings.
Juliette Chevalier
October 8, 2021 6 minute read
Productivity & Estimation
Project Management on a Remote Team
Project management is hard. It can be even harder on a remote team. Learn to successfully manage a project while embracing the freedom and independence that comes with remote work.
Tanaka Mutakwa
September 15, 2021 6 minute read
Newsletter
Delivering Incremental Value
Status Hero's goal tracking feature is designed to track incremental goals. But continuously delivering incremental value to the business is the end result.
Henry Poydar
September 14, 2021 3 minute read
Productivity & Estimation
Increasing Focus With No Meeting Days (or Weeks!)
In a world where it's accepted that meetings are bad yet unavoidable, what’s the solution? How can we balance making time to get things done with the need to communicate with the rest of our team? That’s where no-meeting days come in.
Karl Hughes
September 8, 2021 8 minute read
Productivity & Estimation
Project Management with GitLab
GitLab is great for teams looking to manage the entire DevOps lifecycle inside of a single platform, with many teams using its project management features instead of a separate tool. Learn how you can manage complex projects effectively with GitLab's built-in features and improve visibility and team communication even more with a little help from some popular integrations.
Tanaka Mutakwa
September 1, 2021 8 minute read
Newsletter
Distractions and Communication Debt
Proactively and deliberately give yourself and your team a break.
Henry Poydar
August 27, 2021 2 minute read
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