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Product Review: Hive
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Product Review: Hive

Hive is productivity and collaboration software that is famously used by teams at world-class companies ranging from Google to Starbucks to Toyota to IBM. As a productivity and community building enthusiast, Hive was on my list of products to try.

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Product Review: Roadmunk
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Product Review: Roadmunk

Roadmunk is a roadmapping software designed to fill a gap left by many popular project management products—the ability to communicate strategy to an executive audience. I’ve faced this challenge many times in my career when using the work management products commonly available in an office environment.

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Product Review: Balsamiq
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Product Review: Balsamiq

One tool that keeps coming up in the product management literature that I have not yet had the opportunity to use is Balsamiq. For those who haven’t heard of this product, Balsamiq is an online tool that you can use to create wireframes—or preliminary versions—of your product designs.

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Product Review: Ganttic
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Product Review: Ganttic

This product review is about Ganttic, a resource planning software named after a project manager’s best friend, the Gantt chart. While the Gantt chart and I may not be besties, I was intrigued by Ganttic’s flexibility and large number of potential use cases, ranging from team calendar management to project management.

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Product Review: Hey
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Product Review: Hey

Oh, hey! Here comes the ubiquitous Hey product review. Hey is a subscription-based email service that was developed by Basecamp, a time management software company renowned for its forward-leaning practices around the future of work. Productivity nerds like me have been eagerly awaiting the launch of Hey for months.

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Product Review: TeuxDeux
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Product Review: TeuxDeux

Even though I primarily use Kanban boards to manage my tasks, like any card-carrying productivity enthusiast these days, I still can’t help but be a sucker for the old school to do list. When I came across TeuxDeux, a platform that bills itself as a simple yet elegant to do list for the web, I knew I had to sign up. To do lists and French? I’m in.

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Product Review: Microsoft Planner
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Product Review: Microsoft Planner

I’m not a spokesperson for Microsoft Planner, but I should be. It’s no exaggeration to say that this tool transformed the way I work and helped me recover from a place of burnout. Let me give the context for why I find Planner to be such an effective tool.

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Product Review: OKRs.app
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Product Review: OKRs.app

My readers know I’m obsessed with goal setting (see here and here.) In an effort to do this bigger and better than before, I’ve been working to transition from setting annual goals to quarterly OKRs, or objectives and key results. For those who are not familiar with this concept, OKRs are a goal setting framework popular in the tech world.

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Product Review: Evernote
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Product Review: Evernote

Now that many of us, myself included, are undergoing a period of forced solitude and reflection, it seems like a good opportunity to test out some productivity products that I have been meaning to explore. I’ll start this series by brushing the dust off a product that I had experimented with many years ago—Evernote.

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Product Review: Bridge24 for Trello
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Product Review: Bridge24 for Trello

Trello is one of my favorite productivity tools—I use this free Kanban board application to track progress against my goals. So, when I came upon an application that advertises itself as an analytical extender for Trello, I had to test it out. Here is my review of Bridge24 for Trello.

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Product Review: Mindly
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Product Review: Mindly

PMs wish we could spend more time mapping our minds and less time putting out fires. There's something tantalizing about the notion that, if we only had the right amount of time or the right resources or the right fill-in-the-blank, we could unlock the knowledge that could help solve our projects. Ergo, the (digital) mind map.

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