Category Archives: Productivity

Hybrid Work with Google Workspace – Part 2: How Collaboration Tools Boost Your Productivity – and That of Your Team!

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Hybrid working and productivity – do they even go together? If you’re equipped with the tools from Google Workspace – then of course! In this blog article, we’ll explain how collaboration tools in hybrid work environments can help you and your team become more productive and work together more effectively.

The Trials and Tribulations of Implementing Scaled Agile in Jira

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As you may know, SAFe® allows each organization its own implementation and configuration of the combined benefits of scaled Agile, Lean, and DevOps frameworks. However, many companies struggle to implement it for a variety of reasons, one of which is the sheer variety of tools you can use that all do something different, and often not quite to the extent that you need. Learn how Agile Hive makes sure it’s the only tool you’ll ever need.

The 11th Tools4AgileTeams – Review of THE Agile Event of the Year!

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That was it – unfortunately! Once again, the Tools4AgileTeams conference, the first in the hybrid format, was over far too quickly: Over 200 people met at our headquarters in Wiesbaden and over 1900 online to discuss, share, learn about the whole spectrum of agile working… We collected some feedback and also tell you where you can watch the first sessions of this year’s T4AT. Click here and have a look back at two fantastic days!

3 Steps To Make Your Sprint Planning Easier In Jira Cloud

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Within our worlds of product and project management, where Jira is one of, if not the essential tool in our toolkit, implementing complementary tools to make our work more efficient yields greater effectiveness. One such stellar example is Templating.app – Easy Issues & Subtasks, which allows product owners to create predefined sets of Jira issues needed with every new sprint. Find out how it can help during sprint planning in this article.

“I 🧡draw.io” #1: Clever Flowcharts and Process diagrams in Confluence

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Complex projects in particular absolutely need visualizations – the risk is too great that something will go wrong, which will have an impact on all subsequent project steps. Flowcharts are a good way to remedy the situation. In our “I 🧡 draw.io” series, we provide tips on how you can use draw.io to quickly create diagrams, mockups, maps, etc. and lay them out in such a way that they can be read and understood by all team members or external stakeholders.

Easily Structure Confluence Content and Make It Attractive

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Confluence is a great tool for knowledge sharing within your company, but as with everything that exists in the world, it’s not perfect. Some of the Space admin features are a bit clunky or missing, and it doesn’t exactly create pages that are very pleasing to the eye, which can mean that your prospective readers take one look at it and high-tail it right out of there. With Space Tools Pro and Karma, these problems are a thing of the past.