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Elizabeth Howden

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  • Making the most of the Jira integration for Hipchat Data Center

    Making the most of the Jira integration for Hipchat Data Center

    [cta]Once in a blue moon, there comes a power couple so good for each other that you can’t help but merge their names into one.…

  • Braintrusts: how to build a more candid think tank culture at work

    Braintrusts: how to build a more candid think tank culture at work

    When was the last time you got completely unfiltered feedback? Do you dread presenting your big projects to your team because you fear their harsh…

  • 3 ways to improve collaboration by putting culture first

    3 ways to improve collaboration by putting culture first

    When I see high-performing teams working well together, I can attribute it to the people, tools, and practices every time. When I see dysfunctional teams, they almost always…

  • How to write a good status update

    How to write a good status update

    This is a guest post from Baron Schwartz, Founder and CEO at VividCortex. I’ve seen my share of terrible status updates. As Founder and CEO…

  • Don’t know how to get feedback at work? Here are some practical ways to start

    Don’t know how to get feedback at work? Here are some practical ways to start

    Peer feedback is so important to your career growth and development. But, what’s the best way to ask for it? Most companies have at least…

  • How to bring your spreadsheet-loving team into Trello

    How to bring your spreadsheet-loving team into Trello

    Raise your hand if you’ve ever been dropped out of an email thread because a recipient forgot to reply all.

  • How to build a design system that will last

    This is a guest blog post by UXPin. Design doesn’t scale easily because it’s a mixture of art and science. It’s traditionally been thought of…

  • Tame your inbox with the new Trello add-on for gmail

    Tame your inbox with the new Trello add-on for gmail

    Ever since 1972, our inboxes have been expanding. Even today, email is still one of the most popular forms of communication: it’s often the first…

  • The human side to scaling Jira: governance, change control, and more

    The human side to scaling Jira: governance, change control, and more

    When you think about growing your Jira instance what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Performance factors? Tactics and process? While all of these…

  • Bitbucket Server 5.5 brings personal access tokens and rebase workflows

    Bitbucket Server 5.5 brings personal access tokens and rebase workflows

    [cta]These days developing software can feel a lot like running in a relay race, pushing ever faster to pass the baton amongst your teammates. The…

  • 7 overlooked biases that creep into your work (and undermine its success)

    7 overlooked biases that creep into your work (and undermine its success)

    From cooking dinner to deciding which new project to tackle at work, you make a lot of decisions throughout the day. Some of these decisions…

  • An agile workflow that keeps tasks flexible in Trello

    An agile workflow that keeps tasks flexible in Trello

    The agile workflow has long been an effective strategy for programmers attempting to ship code in a timely fashion. Now those same theories are being…

  • Hipchat Data Center presents: 5 surprising ways enterprise teams are winning with ChatOps

    Hipchat Data Center presents: 5 surprising ways enterprise teams are winning with ChatOps

    There’s this rumor going around that ChatOps was the invention of start-ups. I don’t know about you, but I can think of several enterprise IT/Ops…

  • Is a deep work deficiency stifling your productivity? An interview with Cal Newport

    Is a deep work deficiency stifling your productivity? An interview with Cal Newport

    Here’s a challenge that’s harder than you might admit: Sit down with a project and focus on it, uninterrupted, for the next 90 minutes. No…

  • We read 100 data breach notifications to make this guide (which we hope you’ll never need)

    We read 100 data breach notifications to make this guide (which we hope you’ll never need)

    Nothing fills out the “worst-case scenario” column quite like a data breach. For the countless teams out there who work hard to protect their customers’…