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5 essential Scrum events for effective Agile product management

Agile product management is a cyclical framework that relies heavily on close collaboration and communication between team members. To accomplish this, product teams use structured Scrum events — formerly known as Scrum ceremonies — at regular intervals throughout a Sprint to set the requirements for the upcoming work cycle, align on progress, share results, and plan for the next iteration. Scrum events are the backbone of a successful Agile team.

Rocket.Chat 7.0 brings AI, integrated VoIP and an extended Starter plan

In a time when organizations are striving to drive efficiency without compromising on data security, Rocket.Chat remains committed to empowering teams with the tools they need for seamless and secure collaboration. This very commitment shapes our roadmap to help admins and teams achieve peak productivity while safeguarding their data.

What is a product backlog? (And how to create one)

A product backlog is an ordered list of tasks, features, or items to be completed as part of a larger product roadmap. With an effective product backlog, you can assign developers daily, weekly, or monthly tasks that target your end goals and help you build a better product. Learn how to create a product backlog, plus tips on how to prioritize the items in your backlog. A product backlog is an ordered list of tasks, features, or PBIs (product backlog items) to be completed as part of a larger roadmap.

Mastering Quarterly Planning for Success in the New Year

As the new year approaches, product managers are preparing to set their teams up for success. While quarterly planning is a well-known strategy, executing it effectively can be a challenge. This blog will explore how to maximize your quarterly planning process in the coming year, ensuring alignment, adaptability, and continuous improvement. We’ll also highlight how Craft.io, your go-to product management tool, can streamline your efforts and enhance collaboration across teams.

WEBINAR: Sharpening Your Product Strategy: From OKRs to Roadmaps

Ever feel like your roadmap is missing the mark when it comes to aligning with company goals? And crafting precise and ambitious OKRs? That’s another challenge altogether. Sound familiar? Let’s turn that around. On this webinar with Greg Bayer, Managing Director at Silver Ridge Advisors, and Roni Ben Aharon, Co-Founder, CPO & CTO at Craft.io. Discover how to create roadmaps that truly align with company objectives and develop OKRs that drive success, directly within Craft.io.

New Release | Comprehensive CSV Import of Work Items

In our latest release, Craft.io introduces a powerful new feature—Comprehensive CSV Import of Work Items. This update enhances the way you onboard new workspaces by significantly improving our CSV import mechanism. Key Features: We hope you enjoy Craft.io’s latest features! Jump into Craft.io and try them out for yourself.

Best Practices for Tracking Product Development Progress

Although they correctly devote their energy to pursuing their company’s high-level objectives, effective Product Managers also keep an eye on how their teams are progressing, day by day, in completing the product-related tasks that will help the company reach its objectives. Here’s why that’s a smart strategy.

Introducing the Craft.io Progress Dashboard

At Craft.io, our mission has always been to give product teams and leaders the tools they need to make the best-informed decisions for their products’ success. And as a product professional yourself, you know that one of the most valuable tools available to any product team is visibility. That’s why, for example, we created Craft.io’s capacity planning and product portfolio management tools.

Enhance Your Product Portfolio Management with the Craft.io Progress Dashboard

In our post announcing the Craft.io progress dashboard, we pointed out that this new tool makes it easy for product managers to visually analyze their progress on virtually any product-related metrics and categories: quarters, sprints, products, teams, objectives, etc. Users can also filter this data in any way they choose for even deeper insights – for example, to review how consistently a specific team has completed its tasks on time over several quarters.