Discord has become a popular platform for digital communities to meet, collaborate, and hang out. It’s easy to use, versatile, and offers a wide range of features that can enhance team communication and productivity. But is it a good collaboration tool for technical collaboration? Not always; there are some scenarios where Discord may not be the best choice for business collaboration needs.

One of the great things about channel-based collaboration is the ability to reach multiple team members all at once. Group notifications are an essential tool in your Mattermost communication toolkit, and are a great way to amplify your messages and ensure that they reach the right audience. Learn how to use group notifications more effectively in this installment of the Mattermost Pro Tips series!

Whether you’re scheduling a one-on-one or a company-wide meeting, or somewhere in between, you’ll want to make sure the meeting was productive for all attendees. With the “Meeting Agenda” template from Mattermost Boards, you and your team can come to every meeting prepared and leave the meeting with clarity. In this guide, we’ll show you how to customize a pre-built Mattermost Boards template to create your own meeting agenda board.

Since digitization has become the standard across all industries, more work is being done online. As a result, technical teams are playing an increasingly prominent role in the success of modern organizations. To keep pace with economic and market conditions, organizations require tighter timelines and streamlined budgets. This often creates more pressure to produce, maintain, and monitor software — which is forcing many technical and operational teams to do more with less.

“Every business is a software business.” Those words were first said by software-quality pioneer Watts Humphrey well over a decade ago. At the time it was a bold statement. Today, it’s table stakes. No matter your industry, you likely use or produce some combination of interactive websites, mobile apps, digitized services, software-enabled products, and even branded software applications across your business operations.

Mattermost Boards is an easy-to-use and lightweight tool to manage your backlog, plan your sprints, and so much more! Create fully customizable boards to track tasks and bugs. Boards are updated instantly as soon as any changes are made, so your teams can stay in sync with a single source of truth. For teams looking for a lightweight open source alternative to Jira, Azure DevOps, or Asana to manage Agile workflows, Boards is a great choice.

You’ve got a fresh cup of coffee on your desk, and you’re ready to dig into some focused work time. But before you can kick things off, you get a ping on your desktop. Then that little red number on your Mattermost desktop app crawls up and up and up. A question to answer on one thread, responses to read on another, a video to watch somewhere else… Before you know it, your coffee is cold, and you haven’t even started on the project you intended to work on.

Whether you’re working on a small feature or a large cross-team initiative, you’ll need a way to track tasks and keep everyone up-to-date. Managing projects on spreadsheets isn’t optimal for most teams, and specialized project management tools may lack flexibility and robust communication options. With Mattermost Boards, you can create fully customizable boards to fit your project needs.