As an engineering leader, one of the greatest gifts you can give your team is clarity of purpose, plan, and responsibility. Recently, Asana Head of Engineering, Prashant Pandey sat down with Plato to discuss why clarity is so important and how it impacts goals. Here are some of his insights and advice for setting engineering goals that are transparent and empowering to team members, no matter where in the world they’re working.

As one observer noted, even large disasters like Chernobyl didn’t completely stem from a lack of documentation. This crisis caused so much damage because people failed to follow the planned and documented processes in time. While it’s important to document processes, no flowcharts or instructions will help businesses run more efficiently or overcome unexpected unusual obstacles if nobody follows them.

With the staggered re-opening of businesses following the shutdown, it’s time for customer support teams to up the ante on customer experience. After all, customers have also had to endure the ordeal and the last thing they want is a heated argument on the phone with a support agent over a refund. We believe the following apps will help you become more customer-centric in your approach and provide pre-COVID levels of service to all your customers.

One of the most important parts of the Mattermost source code is the one responsible for accessing the Mattermost database: the store. Every single database access is handled by the store, so we needed to find a way to extend its functionality while introducing as little complexity as possible. This is the reason behind the current layered approach using struct embedding.

If you’re still using emails to exchange work messages, who better than you can understand the problem of endless email chains, annoying CC’s, and accidental Reply All’s? While emails have a certain charm, they’re not the best tool for internal communication. If you use email for work chat, reviewing all the conversations about a single project requires sifting through multiple email chains.

If you’re still using emails to exchange work messages, who better than you can understand the problem of endless email chains, annoying CC’s, and accidental Reply All’s? While emails have a certain charm, they’re not the best tool for internal communication. If you use email for work chat, reviewing all the conversations about a single project requires sifting through multiple email chains.

Has your Inbox has screamed, “Enough!” because of all of the e-mails related to support tickets piled up? This is one of the top pain points reported by B2B customer support professionals, and this four-part blog series will explore how the right B2B customer support software will help you solve for all of them.

After months of wide-spread lockdowns in response to the novel Coronavirus, many countries and companies are beginning to lift restrictions. As this process begins, it’s clear that many things will look different than before the pandemic. This is especially true for the workplace, where many people are expected to work from home indefinitely. In a call center environment where employees work in tight spaces using shared equipment, the need to facilitate a new normal will be especially noteworthy.

The results are in; after auditing leading video conference systems, Berlin's Data Protection Officer, Maja Smoltczyk, published a report, which attests that major video conferencing providers including Zoom, MS Teams, and Google Meet, do not comply with GDPR regulations.