Evernote is a multi-platform note-taking app. The app categorizes notes and images into notebooks, allowing you to organize and tag them easily. It’s available on all major operating systems and has a wide install base. That’s why using Evernote in Google Chrome is a good idea—they’re both widely available and simple to use. They’re also… (more) How to Use Evernote with Chrome
In 2011, Cisco’s then-VP of engineering, Eric Yuan, tried to persuade his fellow executives that they urgently needed to improve WebEx, Cisco’s web-conferencing product. At that time, Cisco’s strategy for web conferencing didn’t involve improving existing products. Despite the fact that WebEx had been a costly acquisition, and the product was an important part of… (more) How Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in Less Than 10 Years
The original version of the Scrum Guide didn’t contain a section on Scrum values. But now it does, because the authors listened to feedback on the Scrum Guide User Voice forum. Adding a Scrum values section was the most popular request, so they wrote it into the latest version of the Scrum Guide. Why was… (more) The 5 Scrum Values and Why They Matter
Doesn’t our boss have to manage us? Why do we have to manage our manager? The term “managing up” may seem like an overused cliche management term, but there’s a lot of magic from improving your ability to manage up. Look, you have goals that you want and need to accomplish in your role. Your… (more) The Tricks to Managing Up and Getting Your Boss to Do Whatever You Want
I’ve hired dozens of people over my career and have built multiple teams from scratch. I can promise you that every hiring manager desperately wants to fill any open role they have. Why? Recruitment is a pain at every step. The work itself is not that fun. It’s a lot of outreach, cat herding, and… (more) The 4 Things That Hiring Managers Desperately Want You to Do
Remote work is talked about so much and we’re quickly reaching a tipping point. It’s going to change the way every type of business operates. Whether a company is fully distributed (remote), co-located in one office or distributed across multiple offices, the way that work gets done will increasingly look like what we’ve been calling… (more) 58 Must-Read Remote Work Resources
In 2008, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser had almost 60% of the world’s browser market share. Mozilla’s Firefox was trailing in distant second place with roughly one-third of the market. Google’s brand new Chrome browser, which the search giant debuted on September 2, 2008, had just 0.3% market share. A decade later, Chrome effectively… (more) From 0 to 70% Market Share: How Google Chrome Ate the Internet
By far, firing is the worst part of being a manager. After years of managing teams and having to fire folks many times, I still get a pit in my stomach just thinking about it. In my experience, that feeling of dread never goes away even after having a bunch of experience with this. It… (more) 7 Steps on How to Fire Someone Without Getting Sued
Agile retrospective meetings can be a double edged sword. When routine, they’re invaluable tools for improving our work and celebrating the team’s achievements—that is, until they become stagnant over time. Your retrospectives should leave your team on common ground and feeling optimistic about the next phase in your agile journey. If you feel like they’ve… (more) 12 Tricks for Running a Retrospective Meeting that People Actually Enjoy
Developing not one but two software products simultaneously just two years after establishing your company would probably sound like madness to most founders. That’s exactly what the Atlassian team did when they launched their wiki tool called Confluence back in 2004. Confluence not only beat virtually every other wiki tool to market but also adopted… (more) From Engineers to Everybody: How Atlassian’s Confluence Conquered the Enterprise
