What does an agile organization with remote teams and only one location need to do to support their teams? What are the hurdles and how can they be overcome effectively? And who is actually suited to be a remote employer or employee? Here are some experiences and my thoughts.
Monthly Archives: September 2018
G Suite vs. Office 365 – Which offers the best privacy features?
An increasing number of businesses and organizations are preparing their departments and teams to take the leap to highly accessible cloud platforms that centralize projects, businesses processes and other business-related items. In this article, I’ll take a deep dive into the privacy features of G Suite and Office 365 and compare both suites in order to determine which offers the best privacy features.
Google G Suite: News, new and often overlooked features (2)
In this second of a two part blog post covering Google G Suite, we’ll take a closer look at Hangouts Meet, Jamboard, Groups for Business, administrative functions, Google Forms and Google Sites.
My remote sprint – part two
The blog post series considers the everyday obstacles of working in a Scrum team as a remote employee. It provides solutions as well as best practices based on an “ideal” sprint. The second part considers backlog refinement, code reviews, and retrospectives.
The Tools4AgileTeams 2018 conference program is now available
The Tools4AgileTeams 2018 conference is just around the corner on the 29-30 November in Wiesbaden, Germany. Thanks to a great selection of presenters, we have now released the session program. We hope you are anticipating a rich, varied T4AT with excellent presentations, great speakers and many ideas for your own teams and companies -it’s going to be a great one!
Atlassian will discontinue Hipchat and Stride and now recommends Slack
The end-of-support dates for Atlassian’s IM and group chat products HipChat and Stride have been announced as well as a new strategic partnership with Slack, a previous competitor in the IM and group chat market.
My remote sprint – part one
The blog post series considers the everyday obstacles of working in a Scrum team as a remote employee. It provides solutions as well as best practices based on an “ideal” sprint. The first part looks at sprint planning, stand-ups, and pair programming.
Google G Suite: News, new and often overlooked features (1)
In April, Google revealed a new version of Gmail for the first time in several years. In addition to a better looking design as well as better functionality, it includes several new features, most of which come from Google’s inbox. Clearly something exciting is happening at Google.
Space Privacy 2.3 for Confluence extranets: optimized user experience for app administrators
Version 2.3 of Space Privacy is here! The newest release of this app features a simplified user experience for administrators of Confluence spaces and predefined administrator roles to streamline set-up.
Atlassian Summit 2018: The most important news from the product keynote
Atlassian Summit is the biggest yearly conference event run by the Australian software company, with customers and partners from all over the world attending. Once again, Barcelona is being a fantastic host city (3-5 September). Here are the highlights from the product keynote.