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Kanban Boards vs Gantt Charts: What to use?

12 min read11th of October 2021

Depending on your business practices, your preferences as a project manager, and the types of projects you are leading, it can be difficult to decide which type of approach suits the project the best.  Keep in mind that the...

A Guide to Water-Scrum-Fall Project Management

10 min read7th of October 2021

Water-scrum-fall. Wagile. Scrumfall. There’s a lot of terminology floating around to describe one project management methodology – but what is it… and are you already using it? The short guide explains everything you need to know. What is Water-Scrum-Fall?...

Using Salesforce Kanban Boards for Project Management

10 min read6th of October 2021

In an ideal world of project management, tasks start, follow a linear progression to completion, and then are closed out so that the project team can move onto the next task. However, many tasks do not follow a linear...

Using Gantt Charts for Project Management in Salesforce

7 min read28th of September 2021

What are Gantt Charts? A Gantt chart is a visual representation of a project timeline. It shows the progression of the projects based on the task completion. The Gantt chart also displays the critical path of the project and...

Salesforce CPQ for Professional Services Automation

9 min read27th of September 2021

What is CPQ The term CPQ refers to “Configure, Price, Quote”. Practically speaking, it’s a category of sales tools aimed at increasing the efficiency of an organization’s sales teams to help drive revenue. The tool helps organize price books...

What are Salesforce Milestones?

6 min read24th of September 2021

Milestones break a project into the key moments or significant completion points along the project lifecycle. These points along the timeline can give Project Managers, or other stakeholders on a project or within an organization, a quick method to...

How to create Reports in Salesforce

10 min read21st of September 2021

There’s lots of information and data in your org, but you need to visualize trends, progress, and the relationships between different types of data of your projects. Salesforce has built-in functionality that allows you to build reports and create...

Salesforce List Views for Project Management

9 min read6th of August 2021

What are List Views in Salesforce? List Views within Salesforce give users the ability to create and, more importantly, customize a list of records on an object. The list allows filters to be used to simply create a list...

Talking Stage-Gates with Hostess Brands

14 min read16th of September 2021

A stage-gate (sometimes called a phase gate) is a project management technique, ideal for large organizations with projects that involve large teams, multiple departments and numerous stakeholders. Typically, stage-gates break up large projects into a series of stages with...

Process Builder vs Flows: navigating Salesforce automation

7 min read19th of May 2021

Process Builder and Flows are both built using the same Salesforce feature called Lightning Flow.  But what are the differences between the two, and when should you be using each? Below, we’ve answered some of the most common questions...