How daily standups can help you to improve your team collaboration. Part I
Agile methodologies are known for helping the team to increase transparency and make the team collaborate easily. Collaboration is a very important value that helps us »
"Definition of Done" in my team
Prioritizing your tasks is an excellent way to be more productive and finish your work in time, but how do you know when a task has »
What does 'Gather Data' means for your Agile Retrospectives?
A Retrospective session is a ceremony that has been gaining ground in different teams even if they don’t follow scrum / agile methodologies; the reason is »
Why prioritizing your tasks will help you to be more productive
Productivity is a very common value that teams and people look for on a day-to-day basis. But productivity is deeper and difficult that just starts your »
Tips and tricks to run efficient Virtual Meetings
In SoftwareDevTools we know that Virtual meetings have become one of the most important “tools” for teams that work remotely. The existence of this kind of »
HBR article review: Creating a purpose driven organization.
This post is based on the article: https://hbr.org/2018/07/creating-a-purpose-driven-organization In Softwaredevtools we are interested in helping you and your team to achieve »
Tips to learn how to structure your information
In Softwaredevtools we know that Increasing and improving communication is the most important part to achieve your engagement and team performance. But this time we are »
The best practices to increase resilience
We already know how agile teams need to be capable to find a solution when a problem comes up. Lately, with all that chaos outside, one »
The best tools for remote agile teams available in Atlassian.
Working as a remote team is even more necessary given the current situation. There are also more tools than ever that make the life of remote »
What values to adopt in order to lead your agile team over the crisis.
Being in a remote team has a lot of advantages, but with all the chaos widespread for COVID-19 maintaining a good posture and focus on the »
Create actionable action items in your remote retros
Our favorite events in the scrum methodology are retrospectives because they let us focus on improvement and find out the best way to deal with it. »
Don't let your daily stand-up turn into a meeting
Daily Standups or Daily scrum, is an event that takes place in most of the cases every day where the principal topic is talking about the »
10 Tips and tricks to deal with the challenges of remote teams
We already talked about the pros and cons of distributed teams who use agile methodologies. But it is even more important to know about how we »
Transparency in your dev team increases performance and saves money.
Keeping your team's work fully transparent for every member is crucial. This will help you stay away from a lot of inefficiencies in your team that »
Moving our bot from Stride to Slack Part II
Last year Atlassian announced the acquisition of all of the Stride and Hip-Chat intellectual property by Slack. A decision that definitely caught us, SoftwareDevTools, and other »