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Status reports are essential for keeping managers, team members, and executives on the same page and ensuring your projects stay on track. Use the following tips to generate status reports that are both clear and effective and to nail your next project.

A sprint retrospective may feel like just another meeting—but you can run it more efficiently and effectively with our tips and collaborative templates. Learn what the purpose of a sprint retrospective is and how to make yours exceptional.

Problems are an inevitable part of life and work, but they are also an opportunity to think critically and find solutions. Learn the key elements of problem solving, effective problem solving approaches, and tools to help you arrive at solutions quickly.

When it comes to defining yourself as a leader, it’s not a matter of whether you look the part or have a corner office. It starts with a conscious effort to nurture the leadership skills that instill an atmosphere of trust and cooperation. Learn more.

TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU refer to the stages of the sales funnel, and they build off of each other to nurture leads in order to ultimately lead to conversion. Learn the difference between these stages and determine what types of content you should be delivering at each.

Cost estimation is one of the most difficult challenges for project managers, but this task is essential to set the right expectations for clients and stakeholders and secure the funding necessary to complete a project. Learn how to estimate project cost accurately.

In 1965, Dr. Bruce Tuckman published the Tuckman model, in which he detailed the stages of team development. Whether you are a manager or a team member, learn these stages to turn your group into a high-performing unit.

Learn how to do a value chain analysis so you can stand out from the competition, add value to your business, and solidify your company as a market leader. Based on Porter's value chain model, this article offers the steps you need to succeed.

To lower production costs and increase profits, you need to evaluate and continually optimize the processes within your company to make them as efficient as possible. In this article, we'll explain how to measure and improve process efficiency.

A marketing mix could be your golden ticket to developing a product that rises above your competition and brings value right to the customer.

Whether you are building a single cloud application, are architecting a multi-cloud solution, or are migrating from one cloud to another, learn more about cloud regions so you can have the best cloud computing experience.

As your company grows, you'll need to constantly evaluate software to ensure that it supports employees and provides options for IT to easily manage and scale. See which questions the Lucidchart IT team asks to evaluate enterprise software.