A product roadmap is a constantly evolving process throughout the product’s lifecycle. And it’s up to you — the product manager — to set the priorities and make sure you align your product roadmap with company initiatives; a process which involves identifying ways to improve and prioritize your products. But how can you be successful in doing this if you haven’t even gauged how your customers feel about the product in the first place?

As an agency owner, you already know that inefficient processes can cause serious frustration for your clients. In the worst cases, inefficiencies might even cost you the relationship. Agencies have many moving parts — from media buying, prospecting, and account planning, to hiring, onboarding, and payroll — which makes it easy to trip over your own feet and fall into inefficient habits and processes.

As a product manager, one way to increase functionality in your product development process (and also attract new users) is to integrate your product with another product. For example, Google Calendar has an integration with Zoom, where you can instantly set up a Zoom video meeting through Google Calendar. Google Calendar benefits from the Zoom integration because it easily enables its users to set up video calls within a seamless workflow.

Gallup, the analytics and consulting firm, started measuring employee engagement in 2000. They published that employee engagement was at an all-time high of 34% in 2018. Although that is good news, we are far from finished when it comes to creating companies that are exciting and fulfilling places to work at (whether virtual or in-person). Gallup published a separate article exploring the reasons behind why the majority of U.S. employees are not engaged despite the gains.

Scrumban is the combination of the Agile methodologies of Scrum and Kanban. Since project managers are always looking for ways to do things more efficiently, they created this hybrid system that gives project managers the flexibility to adapt stakeholder and production needs through a more visual approach. Scrumban emerged to meet the needs of teams who wanted to minimize the batching of work and adopt a pull-based system.

Podio is one of the more mature and older project management solutions which is why we decided to put together an all inclusive list of the best Podio alternatives for your business. Podio prides itself in being one of the most secure and stable project management softwares with a stability score of 99.99% in 2021 so far. Being a part of Citrix security has been essential since the company’s founding.

Managing an office is not an easy task, and to do the job correctly requires the use of the finest and easiest to use office management software tools that both office managers and entry level employees alike can use to up their productivity and ensure smooth office management on each task that occurs.

Unlock your team’s maximum productivity with one of these three conceptual agile project management templates. You’ve undoubtedly heard of Agile by now as the startup-based move-fast-and-break-stuff ethos has trickled its way into the largest of institutions. Digital transformations orient around the need for speed and maximizing productivity.

Understanding how you manage your projects will help you better manage your Milestones. Whether the endeavor is big or small, a Milestone in project management serves to cap off a workstream and serves as a small point of celebration in the frame of a larger project. Let’s discuss how Milestones can be used, as well as some ideas for popular Milestone templates.

There’s a wide variety of ways to view all of the endeavors your organization is working on, but viewing all of the work within your company’s wingspan can be quite daunting, and perhaps even meaningless, as it lacks the context and actionability of how your initiatives unfold on a day-to-day basis. Clustering your projects into Portfolios will help your company’s leadership contextualize your efforts, as well as sharpen the focus of those tasks with carrying out the daily driving.