Fun fact: according to the National Center for Biotechnology Research, 25% of us abandon our resolutions by January 7th. Just seven measly days into the year?!

Marketing automation for most people probably regards e-mail marketing. But the newsletter is not the only way to use automatic actions for better timing and personalization. Among them, we can list web push notifications – messages that show up when an Internet user visits browser (not necessarily a particular page).

Do you ever get an icky feeling when your house is a mess? It can make me so uneasy that I can’t fall asleep until everything is neat and tidy. An organized home that’s easy to clean up quickly has been proven to help people feel more rested and calm. Similarly, in the workplace, having your company’s internal content, information, and knowledge well-organized increases productivity and improves your team’s peace of mind.

Have you ever worked on a team where it was a challenge to give constructive feedback or confidently share ideas? At PagerDuty Summit 2018, Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,1 spoke about the importance of encouraging a culture of teamwork, and the role trust and vulnerability play in creating that culture.

As a software or IT leader, estimating and planning for growth is critical. We’ve learned a lot from many of our customers’ journeys and wanted to share some recommendations as you develop a strategy for scale.

Modern IT organizations are increasingly using ChatOps to operate critical business systems and move forward faster. ChatOps is a new way of working that brings people, files, conversations and tools (via commands) together on a central enterprise messaging workspace, accelerating decision making and innovation while increasing agility.

There’s no dearth of project management tools available in the online market. Such tools enable top management keep track of all their projects, create and track tasks and teams, and analyze their progress through reports and charts. But there’s one thing missing from most modern project management tools; and that is that they don’t take the developer angle into consideration.

Think back to your last team meeting. Did you get in everything you wanted to say? Did that one rambunctious teammate jump in before you could finish your killer point? We’ve all been there. It feels like crap, right? Yet, the truth is that how it makes us feel is only part of the story. There’s also the not-so-trivial matter of how being ignored or talked over in meetings limits the entire group’s performance.