Everybody knows that people are naturally lazy, and programmers are doubly lazy. Taking into account the continuous development of technologies and improving the living standards, the situation is unlikely to change in the nearest future. And this's for the best. Lazy people are always looking for the easiest way to solve a problem, and no project manager or methodology will change their way of thinking.
New advances in technologies somehow affect all areas of human activity, and project management does not stand aside. In recent years, the role of managers has changed significantly due to the automation of part of their duties and changing the very process of development and teamwork. What is the future of project management and what should today's project managers expect and prepare for if they want to take full advantage of all the new achievements?
How much time per week do you usually spend on meetings? According to The Muse, they can take about 35 – 50% of manager's working hours. This would not be so offensive, if not the fact that most of them are ineffective and useless. And it doesn't matter whether it is a live conversation, a phone or video call, in any case, you're wasting your own time and reducing your team's performance, distracting them from their direct responsibilities. If earlier we have discussed how to stop wasting time in general, today we will focus on existing ways to avoid extra meetings.
Hello, guys! We have prepared a bunch of the latest Riter updates with a detailed description so that they don't surprise you and cause no questions. For example, the process of creating a new project is now much more convenient and solves some previous difficulties of company owners. You should also know about changes in GraphQl API and extended account settings which are described below. In addition, we have updated our cookie policy and fixed some annoying bugs.
According to the latest researches, in the next few years the process of project management in companies will change a lot. The main trends will be a wider use of analytics and Agile principles, a great impact of artificial intelligence, large-scale integration of various fields of activities and, of course, an increased number of remote teams. Today more and more people are working remotely, while the need for a structured way of task management and strict compliance with deadlines still remain in force. So, new approaches require certain changes in the whole company management and some rules which you should follow when organizing your teamwork not to become a victim of a failed experiment and common troubles related to remote working.
Due to successful chatbot experience of last years, small business owners are now using AI technologies to improve their daily operations, interact with customers and increase income. Integration and union of apps from different areas with the help of bots allow companies to introduce their software to a new level. Prosperous experience of Slack, Telegram, Messenger, etc. shows us that AI-based bots will remain in demand even further. Nevertheless, not everything is so smooth, and certain aspects of their use still slow introduction of chatbots into today's business.
Chatbots are not a new phenomenon at all, but in the last year they have attracted especially a lot of attention. According to Business Insider research, by 2020 80% of companies will use chatbots for different needs and this is not surprising. Chatbots are being used in many different ways to automate a significant part of our daily routine, help businesses to reach customers, save money, integrate apps with existing solutions and so on. However, we share the opinion that we have the attention span of a gnat. The fact is that the potential of chatbots is huge, but we continue to use their capabilities in a minimal way. If we direct all the power of AI, which we have already achieved and successfully use in other spheres, to chatbots, the level of business profitability will grow before our eyes.
Over the past few weeks, Riter has seen a number of important updates. A significant part of the changes affected a company management panel, however, developers' capabilities were not ignored as well. In this release note you will know more about short project names and what they can be used for, new ability to restore deleted tasks, updates in GraphQl API, an additional statistics page and much more.
Every day we are faced with the results of rapid technological evolution and continuous innovations, and software development and project management are not an exception. Customer and market requirements are constantly changing so IT companies need to keep an eye out and respond quickly to any of them to stay successful. Under such circumstances, no wonder that Agile principles attract more attention and are firmly established in the software industry (and not only there). There is an increasing number of teams working on Scrum, Kanban or some hybrid methodology and, as a result, they begin looking for new project management tools suitable for their workflow. How much does Riter, designed as an Agile project management software, meet their expectations? In this article we will show how main Agile artifacts can be mapped on the existing Riter functionality.
A self-learning artificial intelligence, an extensive third party integration with a system of bots and a rest of "coming soon" features are not the only way to increase your team productivity with Riter - you can already become more efficient with existing functionality. We have prepared some application tricks which you might have missed if you are new to our project management tool. You should find out more about them to greatly simplify your daily duties regardless of whether you are a manager, a developer or another involved party.
