Martin Seibert often reads books that relate to his professional interests, which he also happens to share with many friends, colleagues, and customers. So rather than keeping this to himself, he has now started a series of blog posts where he provides short reviews of interesting (or not so interesting) books. They could prove helpful for others – a must-read tip or a lucky escape as each book receives a stamp of recommendation or is relegated to the trashcan. Here’s part two.
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Linchpin User Profiles 2.13: Macro for page responsibilities, improved information for users
As a component of the Confluence-based social intranet suite Linchpin, Linchpin User Profiles adds numerous, useful functions and options to the native Confluence user profiles and is the foundation for the personalization capabilities of Linchpin intranets. Here, we’ll take a look at the most important new features of the latest version of Linchpin User Profiles.
Management, leadership, collaboration, innovation. Book recommendations – part one
Martin Seibert often found himself thinking the books he was listening to as audiobooks could also be helpful for his colleagues or clients. So now he has started a series of blog posts where he provides short reviews of interesting (or not so interesting) books. They receive a stamp of recommendation or are relegated to the trashcan. Here’s part one.
Meetings as a last resort: Asynchronous communication with Atlassian Confluence and Jira
While meetings can be useful to come up with new ideas and alternatives, most meetings are very productive at all, and they tend to eat up employee’s valuable time. Here I make a case to reducing meetings to an absolute minimum and cultivating a culture of considerate asynchronous communication instead.
Agile remote transition – life as a distributed employee in a local Scrum team
//SEIBERT/MEDIA has been able to gain a wealth of experience in remote collaboration over the years. At Tools4AgileTeams 2019, the team will share these experiences and their knowledge on agile teamwork. The first round of tickets is already on sale.
Interview – Modern office systems for companies: Google G Suite versus Microsoft Office 365
For companies, deciding between Google and Microsoft is often not an easy task. One of the main reasons for this is because of the sheer scope of both of the solutions. Paul van Herwarth dives into many of the issues surrounding the choice between G Suite and Office 365 in an interview for Wissensmanagement.net.
Microblogging for Confluence: Version 4.0 with optimized design and a new microblog overview page
Nowadays smooth collaboration within teams is a critical success factor for enterprises. The Microblogging for Confluence app has been designed to address the resulting need for transparent and uncomplicated communication by creating a modern, straight-forward social collaboration channel in Confluence or Confluence-based intranets. Here we look at the latest improvements to make version 4.0 of Microblogging for Confluence even more transparent and user-friendly.
Is Jira trapped in your IT and development teams? (Part 1)
Technical teams in many companies work happily and successfully with Jira – but software that has a reputation for being a development system is not normally something which the Average Joe can also use for their work. When such a person starts working with Jira for the first time, they may be a little overwhelmed by the depth of the system’s many features and functions. Nevertheless, we and many of our customers use Jira with completely different teams and company departments. The advantages of Jira are not limited to just our technical teams. You can clearly see the advantages that Jira brings to all sorts of teams when you focus on its ability to be transparent, its visualizations and how it inspires collaboration rather than technical integration.
DACHFest 2018: Impressions and take-aways from the conference on technology, accessibility and diversity
DACHFest 2018 was an event promoted by Google, around the theme of accessibility and diversity. The keynotes and presentations were though-provoking, entertaining and packed full of knowledge that will improve both workplaces and our customers’ lives. Here are my impressions and take-aways from the event.
The Decision Tree model: Making decisions with a current development project as an example
At //SEIBERT/MEDIA we have introduced an adapted version of the Decision Tree model by Susan Scott to make decision structures in a complex environment more transparent and straightforward. But how does it work in practice? This post looks at the model in practice using the development of our social intranet suit Linchpin as an example.