Your product’s notification experience can make or break how your users perceive your application. That’s why getting the notification experience right should be at the forefront of product managers’ minds. But what, exactly, is a great notification experience for a mobile or web app? Here at Courier, we often hear this question from product managers.

How do you align your entire organization around specific company goals? And what’s the right way to motivate team members to improve employee performance and team cohesion? Goal-setting is an important strategy: Your company and its teams need to know the what. But as important as goal setting is, it’s only part of the equation.

There’s a difference between feeling tired and feeling burned out. You can overcome “tired” with a cup of coffee, an afternoon walk, or a good night’s sleep. Employee burnout, unfortunately, is a different animal. In 1974, psychologist Herbert Freudenberger published an early paper on staff burnout at a free medical clinic in Manhattan’s East Village.

Given how much value product teams can contribute to a company’s bottom line—in terms of making smarter decisions about what to build, and keeping the organization aligned around a shared set of strategic goals—finding the right product management software is a critical step in the path to company success. But which solution should organizations choose for their product teams?

Brainstorming is one aspect of team collaboration that can feel particularly daunting if you aren’t guided well on how to conduct it efficiently. Picture it for yourself. Imagine sitting at a conference table and having to come up with brainstorming session ideas from scratch without knowing the first thing about it. Every input or critique from an otherwise well-intentioned peer or a colleague can quickly start to feel like a scathing remark.

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