A product journey is typically fraught with many technical, analytical, and design challenges. Your biggest defense against these challenges is a rock-solid team with passionate team players who are excited about learning and solving problems. While someone's years of experience, unparalleled technical knowledge, or effortless business acumen can seem fool-proof, it's important to remind ourselves that we are, in fact, human.

Microsoft is introducing their new universal bot action model in the Adaptive Cards schema version 1.4. Adaptive cards were introduced by Microsoft to enable you to take quick actions across their different platforms without you having to leave the platform of your choice.

We’re happy to bring you some good news along with this year’s Ramadan wishes. To all our readers, Eid Mubarak! or !عيد مبارك Now you can wish your team in Arabic too with Zoho Projects! That’s right, we’re launching the support for Arabic in our software, along with full RTL support. Be it with your teammates, clients, or other stakeholders, bridge the communication gap by conversing easily in your native language.

In the 2020 edition of PMI’s Pulse of the Profession, one of the top three factors that executive leaders attributed to project success was investing in the right technology (32%). However, what’s the right technology for you? This can vary based on your industry, role, type of organization, and nature of work. But the one factor that wins uncontested is the ability of a tool to be adopted by people. In other words, how easily can software be adopted or implemented by your organization?

Agile methodologies come from the digital world where they have been transformative. But applying Agile principles outside of software teams is much more difficult. If done wisely, implementing Agile at scale promises to bring speed, responsiveness, and continuous improvement across the enterprise. In many companies, however, Agile at scale faces a high cultural hurdle.

Launching Zoho Projects 7—more speed, a complete UI makeover, and new features to help businesses deal with disruptions in their work. First launched in 2006, Zoho Projects has evolved from a simple online project management tool to a comprehensive solution. As we step into our 15th year, we’re excited to introduce our latest version, Zoho Projects 7.

Change management is a discipline that guides organizational improvement. It results in a permanent change as a result of observable shifts in behavior. It ensures that your organization learns and improves in a thorough, orderly and sustainable manner. Successful improvement projects require that individuals and groups are aligned, that they share a common vision, that they know how they will define success, and have a path to achieve it. Change management has three aspects.

Through decades of consulting for companies such as Apple, Bose, Roche, IBM, and others, we at TCGen Inc. have seen our share of product development snafus. We tend to see many of the same problems across organizations and across industries. Most of them are simple, all of them avoidable, and yet their effects are significant. Below are five of the most common product development pitfalls we have seen — and how to avoid them.

Over the years, the rapid emergence of gig economy platforms have created diverse job opportunities by connecting freelancers with businesses that favour a pay-per-task basis. However, being able to pick up temporary job arrangements has been both boon and bane. In the Asia Pacific, 84% of hiring managers outsource to freelancers.

Most businesses run on a variety of applications and it’s essential for productivity and efficiency that such applications communicate with each other. If tools are rigid and fail to talk to each other, work can become quite cumbersome. Last year, we asked our users what add-ons you’d like to see in the future for Zoho Projects. Many of you sent in your requests, and we heard you loud and clear!