Meeting deadlines and staying within a budget are important to business success, but continuous achievement requires more than these two factors. Modern organizations understand that a strategic project manager (PM) is vital to project success. A PM’s role extends...
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Maximizing Efficiency with a RACI Matrix
For years, I’ve enjoyed working with clients on difficult projects. In my early career, I did a lot of work for a cloud and infrastructure company where I mainly worked with internal teams. However, when I did get the chance to work with external clients, I found...
Three Levels of Automated Time Tracking in Jira
The Atlassian Marketplace offers over 300 time-tracking apps, and if you aren’t tracking those apps yourself, you might easily miss a trend that is occurring across all of them. The trend of automated time tracking. This dream of having timesheets be all-knowing and...
How Marketing Teams Can Use Loom to Streamline Campaign Documentation and Collaboration
No matter what field you work in, you are bound to encounter challenges. For the average marketing team, typical struggles include juggling multiple campaigns, working within tight deadlines, and ensuring impactful results from these efforts. While traditional...
Avoiding Common Goal-Setting Pitfalls with Best OKR Practices for 2025
Goal-setting is vital to business success, but it is not without its challenges. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a popular framework for aligning teams and driving results. Despite knowing about OKR practices, companies still commonly fall into traps that derail...
The Role of Jira and Confluence After Mergers or Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are complex processes that bring new opportunities, expanded teams, and a broader range of tools and technologies. For many companies, the aftermath of an acquisition includes managing disparate systems. This is especially true when...
Tackling Cultural Resistance to Enhance Data-Driven Decision Making
Adopting a data-driven approach is essential for companies seeking to enhance decision-making and drive growth. However, one of the biggest obstacles to achieving this is cultural resistance. This resistance is often from HiPPOs (Highest Paid Person's Opinion), who...
Customizing Confluence with Dashboards, People Directories, and More with Mantra
While Confluence is a powerful collaboration tool, customizing it to fit your team’s unique needs can be challenging. With the help of Mantra, you can create dynamic dashboards, intuitive people directories, and more. Here’s how to make Confluence work smarter for...
Simplify Your Confluence Workflows with Integrated Approvals
As organizations continue to seek the most efficient solutions for increased compliance, new apps and add-ons have emerged on the market. AppFox is a leader in this field, creating add-on applications for increased capabilities. For businesses that currently use...
Reduce Documentation and Improve Engagement in HR Onboarding with Loom
Onboarding sets the tone for a new hire’s experience, so it is vital to have engaging, clear instruction. Traditional methods often struggle to keep employees informed and entertained throughout the process. Loom offers a solution. Its interactive video platform...
Exploring the Benefits of Enterprise Service Management
As competition among service delivery organizations increases, many businesses are seeking new ways to enhance collaboration and improve efficiency. This need for a cohesive approach to service delivery has led to the rise of Enterprise Service Management (ESM)....
Reduce Technical Debt and Streamline Your Jira Backlog with Atlassian Compass
Have you ever found your team sacrificing long-term stability for short-term speed? This is unfortunately a common practice as businesses try to keep up with new technologies and emerging competitors. This practice leads to “technical debt” otherwise known as the...