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Both developers and product managers want the same thing: to build better products. But having the same goal doesn't guarantee a smooth collaboration. In fact, it takes a lot of time and efforts for the two parties to align and be on the same page.

If you’re in agile software development, you probably have multiple teams, or you’re growing into an organization that has multiple teams. Multiple teams need cross-functional collaboration. Find out how to better facilitate cross-functional collaboration for your multiple teams.

Jira systematically eats away at every part of an engineering culture’s soul. Why is this?

Advanced Custom Fields help your team categorize work and provide the structure to support your unique process. With advanced Custom Fields your organization can organize and represent your work and processes in Shortcut the way you like to work in real life.

With Docs, your team's entire product development flow can be stitched together in one tool.

In agile project management for software development, a story point is a useful metric to determine the difficulty level required to complete a story - in other words, how much effort is required.

The majority of today’s modern software development teams are distributed, working on complex projects that require cross-team collaboration to get things done. As a manager, how do you facilitate this? To start, you set up your cross-functional teams and you keep them functional. Here are 5 ways to accomplish this.

Project and product managers are two vital roles that are often confused with each other. Why is this the case? Is it because they both start with pro and end with ct, thus the only different letters being je and uc? Or is it the whole management part? Perhaps when discussing project management and product management, people just stop listening after “pro–” thinking maybe hopefully whatever you’re saying doesn’t apply to them, or that maybe hopefully you’re talking to someone else, behind them. Or that maybe hopefully nothing is actually required of them, and you’re just rambling. Or maybe it’s much more nuanced than that, because much like their spelling, these roles are connected and complementary to each other.

We’ve all got a lot on our collective, proverbial plates. This post explores how PMs embrace prioritization frameworks, and the importance of being clear on company priorities and documentation when they're feeling overwhelmed. Or underwhelmed. Or just whelmed