Welcome to the first release of OneDesk in the new decade! This update was rolled out on January 28 2020. This release could be called “The Integration Release” because that was the main focus this month.
For companies that work on custom requests, it is paramount that they nail gathering requirements from their customers. We live in an increasingly distributed work environment, which sometimes exacerbates the difficulties in ensuring everyone is on the same page. When people aren’t aligned on expectations or requirements, it can delay when work is actually started, which is not ideal for the customer requesting the work and the company that is providing the service.
As companies and teams become more and more distributed, communication only becomes more important. For organizations that deal with finance matters, this is only more true. There is no room for miscommunications and distractions when there are large amounts of money being transferred and worked with. One client came to us seeking a solution to their management of tickets, along with some sensitivity to permissions, communications, and the ability to track change.
Gantt charts consist of horizontal bars that indicate a project’s schedule on a horizontal timeline. Each bar represents a task with the left end of the bar positioned at the start of the task, and the right end of the bar at the tasks finish.
The principles of Agile project management took root in the software development and engineering fields. There are many different methodologies (such as Scrum or Kanban) on how to implement these processes, but agile does not have to be complicated and can be applied to any field (but maybe shouldn’t be). This article aims to take you a few steps beyond the simple principles of Agile, with actionable information, while avoiding the dogma of any particular methodology.
In OneDesk, dashboards are a type of ‘view’ which are displayed in the left panel and show you some useful charts and statistics about your data. You can create and save your own dashboard-views, just like you can create tree-views, card-views, gantt-views, etc.