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How to hire remote developers (with free remote job description template)

Planio

But while finding talented people isn’t hard–even when hiring remote employees–finding the right teammates for your company can be a battle. As Steve Jobs famously put it, a small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players. Step 1: Decide if it’s the right time to hire remote developers.

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Dealing With “Remote Sprawl”: How to Manage Teams, People, and Projects Across Time Zones

Planio

It’s quickly becoming the ‘new normal’ for companies and teams to be split across cities, countries, and even time zones. And while there’s no denying the many benefits of working remotely , mismatched schedules, repetitive communication, and out-of-sync teams don’t make the list. We like to call these issues remote sprawl.

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Everything Product Managers Need to Know about Scalability: 10 Ways to Design and Build for the Future

Planio

Scalability is a big deal in enterprise development. When you’re working with massive companies, get a significant spike in users, or land a great white whale of a customer, you want to know that your infrastructure, tech, and team can handle the increased load. Performance: How your engineering team thinks about scalability.

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8 Steps to Build and Manage a Remote Engineering Team

Planio

When it comes to hiring engineers, it’s hard to argue with the benefits of going remote. As Phil Freo , head of product and engineering at the fully remote startup, Close.io, told us: “When recruiting, it was hard to stand out in Silicon Valley among all the other tech startups hiring. How to find, interview, and hire remote engineers.

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The Best Decision-Making Frameworks for Project Managers: RACI Charts, S.P.A.D.E, BCM, and More!

Planio

Every decision changes not only the way your product looks but also how your team looks at you. Good decisions foster growth, push products further, and show your team (and stakeholders ) you’re in control. While bad decisions cause setbacks, carve up your carefully crafted product plan, and can even demolish morale beyond repair.

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Is JIRA a Counterproductive Project Management Software In Today’s Market?

nTask

Team managers are able to create a schedule of tasks for others to follow. At the same time, external stakeholders can be invited to that specific project board to monitor everything. A certain extent of these users doesn’t hesitate from bad mouthing the project management tool’s reputation in the online world.

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9 Resume Screening Tools to Boost Your Hiring

Teamweek

The old ways of hiring candidates are outdated and stagnant, not to mention that they can lead to organizations hiring the wrong people. With the advancement of HR technology, it’s never been easier for companies to hire the right people for open positions. Resume screening plays a crucial part in this new wave of HR technology.