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Here's what 33 students taught me about the future of product development

If you want to get a feel for the future of product development, one of the best places to look is NYU Stern’s Tech MBA program. This is where the next generation of PMs cut their teeth, so a few months ago we reached out to one of the program’s lead professors with a question: What if we pointed the students at some of the biggest problems in New York — from grocery prices and transit equity to bike lane safety and childcare — and gave them one day to build a solution that worked?

New knowledge connectors: Unify external knowledge for more accurate resolutions | What's New

Knowledge connectors bring external content from tools like Confluence, SharePoint, Notion, Google Drive, websites, and more into Zendesk so AI agents and support teams can deliver faster, more accurate resolutions. When knowledge lives across disconnected systems, customers wait longer for answers and agents spend more time searching for information. Zendesk unifies external knowledge into one connected source of truth that powers self-service, AI responses, and support workflows — without complex integrations or custom coding.

Why internal communications is becoming the critical function in your AI rollout

Internal communications teams are being pulled into enterprise AI strategy at a scale the org chart doesn’t reflect. They’re shaping rollout plans, building adoption workstreams, and managing the human side of AI implementation — on top of their existing responsibilities.

Assign Tasks to Roles: Plan before assignment is finalized

Project planning rarely starts with task assignment locked in. You know the work that needs to happen, but the exact people? That often comes later. Until now, tasks in Teamwork.com required you to assign work to a specific user or team from the start. That created friction during early-stage planning, especially when task assignment decisions were still evolving.

Productivity benchmarks: What good performance looks like

Most teams track productivity. Few know what good actually looks like. Measuring productivity is easy. Understanding it is harder. Hours logged, tasks completed, revenue per head — these numbers only tell you so much. Without context, you can not tell if your team is performing well or just staying busy. That is where productivity benchmarks come in. They give you a reference point so performance data actually means something.

9 Effective Communication Apps for Team Collaboration

When communication isn’t managed, the team suffers. Time is wasted tracking updates, clarifying instructions, or managing conversations across multiple tools. Important information gets buried, leading to confusion, frustration, and a serious loss of productivity. These problems only get worse as teams grow. This is where an internal communications app steps in to transform the way teams work together.

How to Track Automatic Project Progress Tracking

You open your project tracker and see a milestone marked as 60% complete. The problem is that nobody remembers why it’s 60%. That number was updated three weeks ago. Since then, several tasks have been completed, priorities have shifted, and the team has moved on to other work. Yet the progress percentage hasn’t changed because someone has to update it manually. This happens in more projects than most teams admit.