8 SaaS tools that help your company scale as a team
As a fast-growing team of over 100 distributed employees supporting 18 million users worldwide, we’ve been thinking a lot about how to scale successfully as a company. And we focus a lot on great collaboration, teamwork, creativity, and a collective energy to achieve something that’s bigger than ourselves.
How to transform Trello into a powerful bug tracker with the marker power-up
Whether you want to build a website for a client or improve a web-app, bugs will eventually pop up. It’s inevitable. The real question is not so much, “How can you reduce the amount of bugs?” but rather, “How can you process bugs as fast as possible?” To do so effectively, you need two things:
Your team’s project roadmap: Gantt charts in Trello
Just like a successful road trip, your next project needs plenty of snacks, some good music, and most importantly: a roadmap.
The 10 biggest misconceptions of remote work
Remote work is on the rise. Believe it or not, employees are opting for 30 more minutes of shut eye over 30 minutes in traffic. Turns out they prefer home cooked meals at a kitchen table over microwaved frozen meals in the breakroom. They’re also choosing impactful co-worker collaboration over water cooler gossip. In short, remote work is working.
15 ways to master the Trello app for Slack [infographic]
Technology is always evolving, bringing new ways to make us work faster and smarter. Or is it just making us work harder to keep up? Depending on where you normally fit into the technology adoption lifecycle, your attitude towards learning new digital skills can range from “LET’S DO THIS!” to “@#%$!…!”
Why group brainstorming doesn’t work
We’ve all been there. You’re on hour two of too many. The wall is covered in sticky notes. The coffee is running low. Everyone’s eyes are starting to glaze over. You’re thinking about all the work you aren’t doing while sitting in that room. And the three loudest people on the team are having an unofficial competition to see who can contribute the most ideas, quality be darned.
Emotional at work? Science says you’ll be more productive
What does it take to build a dream team that will skyrocket a company and its members to success? Experts are looking to one strategy in particular for taking team productivity from good to great: Emotional intelligence, or EQ, a skill that is an increasingly important part of individual and now, group professional development.
The beginner’s guide to scrum and agile project management
What can help you build a car, save your marriage, code software, write a book, or even renovate a house?
The minimalist’s guide to productivity
I’ve been on a journey to adopt a minimalist lifestyle for years. I’ve taken on a minimalist wardrobe, thrown out all the junk in my house, even downsized to a smaller flat with less storage and way more floor space.
Maximize your Trello workflow with custom fields
Custom Fields are a way to give cards more quick context, including marking them as done (yes, you read that correctly!), and much more functionality.
How to add bots to your workflows the proper (read: productive) way
If you use digital applications to communicate or do any part of your work, you’ve probably heard about bots. These task-based automated programs may be poised to become the next big thing in the software economy – and it helps that they’re useful to individuals and companies alike.
Love working smarter? These are the 12 productivity bots you’re looking for
“I hate tools that help me work more efficiently and communicate more clearly,” said no one ever. Enter: Your bot minions.
Why you get more done when you gamify your life
As a kid playing games, you didn’t stay up for hours because of the music, the graphics, or the storyline. Rather, it was because the games were so difficult that any kind of achievement was a massive deal for your 8-year-old self.
5 team building exercises for setting goals you’ll stick to
Imagine your company as a rowing team all rowing in different directions. Not only would you certainly lose the race, you’d likely capsize. Or, imagine two of your team members refusing to row because they have no direction: aimless and making the other team members frustrated. A team rowing together towards a shared end goal, on the other hand, is far more likely to win.
You are (as productive as) what you eat: how to make it through the workday
This morning, you woke up well-rested and ready to seize the day. You’re whistling on the way to work, already envisioning conquering that pesky project, saying something witty to the boss in the elevator and rocking the afternoon presentation. You forgot to pack lunch or snacks, but who cares? You’ll continue to slay the day by grabbing lunch with your new coworker.