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The right way to track technician performance

Amid concerns of resource scarcity and increasingly complex resolution processes, service desks are constantly under pressure to deliver more with less. This, in effect, forces service desk managers to drive technicians to resolve requests faster, leading to an unhealthy obsession with numbers. Several service desks are known to regard the number of requests closed by technicians as a good yardstick for their performance.

15 Essential DevOps Apps for Microsoft Teams

DevOps engineers always need to check processes, increase work efficiency, and optimize operations. The main part of the work is to improve the quality of the product and set up smooth workflows. That’s why you need to control systems and react to downtime as quickly as possible. One of the best ways to do so is to get timely notifications is Teams DevOps Applications. MS Teams is widely used in many companies, so you probably already have it.

PagerDuty Slack Integration How-To Video

Learn how to install, configure, and test the PagerDuty Slack Integration and work wherever you are. Many modern ITOps and DevOps teams count on Slack to keep everyone on the same page when things are running smoothly—and perhaps even more so when they aren’t. Slack users can do things like reassign or escalate an incident and view additional incident context—all from within Slack. The PagerDuty platform also allows users to create an incident war room Slack channel from within PagerDuty, adding additional users to it as the situation evolves.

Slack vs. Teams Showdown

Slack and Microsoft Teams are two popular remote work collaboration platforms. They’re both cloud-based apps that simplify the process of communicating and sharing between multiple teams of people anywhere in the world. In GetVoIP’s list of the best free team collaboration tools, both Slack and Teams make an appearance. If they’re so similar, how can you choose which one to use? What’s a better fit for your job or working style?

Working from home: telecommuting open tools

«Every cloud has a silver lining». Popular sayings are wise and pragmatic. This year we added coronavirus and telecommuting to our daily vocabulary. Both words are compounds and the first one represents a danger that has massively propelled the second, whether we like it or not. Therefore, regarding remote working, in this post I will tell you all about the telecommuting open tools that we can use at home. Let’s go!

GitKraken Boards: New Column Automation

Project management and issue tracking are foundational to a successful development team. Furthermore, task tracking tools that enable automation help maximize productivity, organization, and collaboration. We called in some help from Hogwarts on this release to introduce some truly magical features to GitKraken Boards. We bring you: Column Automation.

Your return-to-the-office cybersecurity checklist

The novel COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way organizations work. The sudden transition to remote work has forced organizations to look for temporary fixes to bridge the gap, leaving their endpoints exposed to an unprecedented threat landscape. Insecure internet connections, a lack of perimeter security, and the inability to implement effective security policies have made remote endpoints a breeding ground for threat actors.

Collaboration, Remote Work and Data Security

An interactive discussion offering a practical insight into the lives of four tech leaders from across the globe who will share the security lessons from the past few months and offer insights into how this will impact practices going forward. This is a great opportunity to hear from four exceptional speakers as they share their experiences and take questions.