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When COVID-19 hit in the spring and schools quickly transitioned to remote learning, we saw in real-time how important IT departments in education are. It was IT’s quick thinking that helped administrators, teachers, and students continue in their learning environments. Now that the ‘20-’21 school year is ramping up, it’s important that IT leaders in education continue on the path to success and plan for the expected and unexpected.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on our working lives. Companies have adopted by transforming their workforce to work remotely through video conferencing software. Cisco’s Webex Meetings, one of the most popular video conference softwares, plays a critical role in helping employees stay connected, enhance collaboration and drive productivity.

Agile is a popular buzzword in software development, with some organizations and teams masquerading as “agile” while they are actually doing something very different. I’ve seen it numerous times in my career as an Agile Coach: A leader claims to embrace agile values, but micromanages engineering teams and uses agility as a way to manipulate developers to work long hours. The result?

While working on multiple projects, it is always a hassle to monitor the progress of your team members. Also, assigning tasks and tracking their status, keeping up with timelines, planning future tasks, etc. can sometimes get too messy. Tools like Trello emerge as one-stop solutions to such issues. In a world where people struggle to organize their tasks, Trello increases productivity while providing various ways to collaborate.

GitLab users will feel even more cunning 🦊 managing your issues directly from GitKraken. The GitKraken Git GUI now integrates with GitLab and GitLab Self-Managed Issues! Now there’s no need to leave the comfortable foxhole of your GitKraken environment to stay on top of your issues. Context switching is, after all, the enemy of an optimal workflow.

As of October 15, 2020, Mattermost Extended Support Release (ESR) version 5.19 will no longer be supported. If any of your servers are not on ESR 5.25 or later, we highly recommend that you upgrade immediately. With our simple upgrade steps, it takes only a few minutes. Mattermost adopts a monthly tick-tock release cycle, with a new version shipping on the 16th of each month.

Maintaining business continuity is both more difficult and more important than ever in the era of COVID-19. Typically, IT departments evolve their approaches and technologies over time to meet the needs of customers. But that approach may soon be outdated thanks to the global pandemic.