Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

If you’re running or facilitating a strategic planning meeting, there are many factors to consider. It’s much more than just bringing everyone together to have an open discussion — and it doesn’t just happen on its own, either. There are several steps you can take to ensure that your strategic planning meeting runs smoothly, but it all starts with preparation. Today, we’ll explore a few ideas to help you hold a successful session, starting with the basics.

Your CTO handed you a project to revamp or build your product’s notification system recently. You realized the complexity of this project around the same time as you discovered that there’s not a lot of information online on how to do it. Companies like LinkedIn, Uber, and Slack have large teams of over 25 employees working just on notifications, but smaller companies like yours don’t have that luxury. So how can you meet the same level of quality with a team of one?

For growing SaaS companies, having the right tools in place that allow the business to scale is critical. No one knows this better than Kelvin Ong, Strategy and Organizations Specialist at Typeform. Typeform is a global SaaS company that sets the gold standard in online interactions for forms, quizzes, surveys, and more, and has been growing swiftly to meet rising customer demand. In fact, Typeform doubled its headcount over the last year.

We’re proud to say that we use Mattermost to build Mattermost. Along that journey, we’ve encountered common challenges that many developers face, and designed solutions and workflows to help us optimize our productivity. Here are some examples.