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5 Steps To Creating A Top-Notch Marketing Project Plan

You already know that marketing is crucial to your business. A good marketing function is not only essential for strengthening brand awareness and educating customers–it can also significantly impact your bottom line. In a typical business, marketing contributes a whopping 15-30% of revenue when it comes to net-new customers. So how do you max out on your marketing revenue? How can you get the most out of marketing for your specific business?

Efficient coding and seamless collaboration: Unveiling our latest partner, Sentry!

When it comes to collaboration, it’s key that every member of your team gets the full picture. This is especially true when it comes to building your software from scratch – manually diagnosing, fixing and optimizing the performance of your code can be made even more challenging by lack of sight over the full project. We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Sentry, a tool that’s making the mammoth task of optimizing code collaboratively more attainable!

Top 10 Books to Improve Your Project Management Skills

To ensure projects are delivered on time, budget, and scope, great project managers truly have to be jacks-of-all-trades. And to remain successful, you need to improve your skillset regularly. To help you out, we’ve put together a list of the best project management books that will set you well on your way to becoming a better project manager.

The Ultimate Guide To Agile Marketing

Agile marketing is an approach to planning, managing and evaluating market activity, based on the principles of the agile work methodology. The agile methodology was developed by software developers in the 1990s and early 2000s, and it remains strongly associated with development work. Teams at Google, Microsoft and Electronic Arts have been among its many advocates. Agile has since been adopted by teams working in other fields such as governance, civil engineering and marketing.

Version Update: Reintroducing The Planner

Each of us has exactly the same amount of hours in a day, making time a resource in which we all are truly equal (not like money or talent, for example). Yet some teams are able to achieve notably more with the time we have – mostly thanks to careful and smart planning of our most valuable resource. With the updated Planner, planning and allocating your team’s time is easier than ever. See for yourself!

12 Steps to Creating a Successful Project Scope

This year’s State of Project Management Survey reveals that only 23% of organizations complete projects on time, with just 43% staying within budget. But how to turn things around and improve the way we execute projects? While no two projects are ever the same, many common threads can still be found in successful projects. According to a 2018 report from the Project Management Institute, controlling the project’s scope is a universal top driver of success.

10 signs of deadline-driven development

It’s fashionable in the tech world to say that you’re cool with failing. But failure leaves a bad taste in your mouth. The only way to get it out is to prove you’ve learned from your mistake. In that spirit, I recently kicked off a discussion amongst the engineering teams at Atlassian about setting deadlines for the sake of deadlines and, worse, prioritizing that deadline above customer value or the overall health of your product (and team, for that matter).

7 Things to Consider When Integrating Your Helpdesk and Project Management Software

Businesses are always looking for the best ways to accommodate their customers’ needs. And in this fast-paced world, they should be able to satisfy customer demands as soon as possible. Fortunately, there’s technology to help you with that. In a joint study by Avanade and Sitecore, 52% of businesses use technology to help deliver better customer support operations. As the world gets increasingly digital, service providers should deliver support through these channels.

How to create an effective website project plan

Developing a website is sometimes a lengthy, complicated, and expensive process. But with a well-thought-out website project plan, it doesn’t need to be. If you’ve decided to launch a new website, or you’re redesigning your current one, trying to organize everything can be difficult. You may already be very busy, which can make finding time for a new project extra hard. A website project plan will help you manage your time and make sure you stay on track to hit your targets.