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Task management strategies involve overseeing and coordinating the various stages of a task or multiple tasks within a project, from start to finish. Its goal is to enhance decision-making, communication, and overall efficiency by effectively managing tasks within the teams. Completing tasks successfully and efficiently is crucial in both daily life and professional settings.

Kanban has become a very popular work—or workflow—management tool, especially in the Lean, Agile, and DevOps worlds. It has also found its way into IT Service Management (ITSM) as a way of providing focus and insight into work jobs/tasks and flows, such as ticket queues, planned and unplanned tasks, or projects and improvement activities.

Employee retention is a complex issue. There are a multitude of factors at play, and those factors are changing as work is changing. The current employee retention statistics show that HR and managers must rethink retention strategies. Classic approaches aren’t working, but employees respond well to personalized and empathetic leadership. We’ve identified key themes in employee retention statistics that highlight the challenges and help managers make targeted decisions.

Are you ready to make your office happy and productive? Employee engagement surveys can provide statistics and encourage engagement. Use survey data to attract, retain, and inspire top people. Discover how to engage employees and lead your company to exceptional success.

Capacity planning means ensuring that there is enough time, people, and specific roles to execute projects successfully. It’s a high-level process that proactively evaluates these factors over weeks or months. It influences the type and volume of work your team takes on. And it shapes hiring decisions, too. For example, deciding whether you have enough developers with experience coding in C++ to execute a potential four-month project successfully.

Busy, busy, busy! That is exactly how any project manager would describe his or her workday. But while project managers have to juggle multiple tasks and manage complex projects, it doesn’t always have to be so tiring. Using a timeline view, you can easily get a high-level understanding of your entire project, helping you mitigate any challenges, such as an impending deadline or a dependent task that may derail your upcoming schedule.

We know change can be tricky—especially when you least expect it. That’s why we’re looking ahead to a good change (we promise!) to the Teamwork.com platform that’s coming right around the corner. To cut right to the chase, we’ll be replacing the current task details page with an expanded view that includes a handy pop-out panel and a full-page experience.

Before we discuss how to organize notes, let’s hear from Richard Branson, the successful entrepreneur who heads a global business empire. He once said that he made a note of everything that occurred to him each day. Clearly, it is an important skill—but after that, knowing how to organize your notes can make all the difference. Utilizing digital notes can be a practical and efficient method for staying organized.

As clinical trials grow in complexity, traditional clinical trial management software (CTMS) can fall short. Discover how integrating work management solutions can provide the missing piece to scale operations and keep clinical research operations on track. Consider a global pharmaceutical company launching a complex adaptive trial in oncology. Their clinical trial management software flawlessly tracks patient data, but as the trial expands to more sites, the team drowns in emails and misses deadlines.