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8 best practices for successful strategic account management
80% of your sales come from 20% of your clients. Learn best practices for strategic account management with Lucidchart.
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Continuous deployment 101: Best practices for the popular engineering approach
In today’s fast-paced development environment, businesses and organizations have to move quickly to remain competitive, so many of them have switched to more agile disciplines, including continuous deployment. Learn best practices for continuous deployment, the ongoing delivery of software features.
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How to develop a project strategy for organizational success
When it comes to project management, quality is more important than quantity. Stop wasting valuable resources—narrow your initiatives down to those that align with your overall company vision. Learn how to align your project strategy and prioritize projects.
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Why You Should Be Using CloudFormation
Recently, AWS added CloudFormation StackSet support for GuardDuty, which got me thinking about how much I use CloudFormation and how important it is for the AWS customers I work with. Learn why you should use this AWS service.
Tips for managing your sales pipeline
Sales pipeline management is crucial to the ongoing success of your sales process. Read the dos and don'ts for mastering your pipeline so you can unlock revenue, identify bottlenecks in your sales funnel, and accelerate your sales cycle.
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How to use a project dashboard to keep your team on track
Project managers need all the help they can get to keep projects on track. Learn how you can track and measure ongoing progress and improve project outcomes using a project management dashboard. (Plus, see how Lucidchart can help you visualize real-time data.)
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Improving your organization’s web security testing
High-profile data breaches in the last few years have put data security at the forefront of political, tech, and business news. Learn what security testing is and how you can implement better testing processes to protect your organization and your users.
How a Workflow Analysis Can Dramatically Improve Your Productivity
Ineffective workflows can ruin your team's productivity and cost your company a lot of money. Max Benz from Filestage shares how to perform workflow analysis in order to identify the weaknesses in your process and start optimizing.
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How to create a product roadmap visualization
A product roadmap visualization can help product managers organize their team's strategy, goals, and tasks into easily understood charts and process maps. Learn how to create a product roadmap and improve your team's communication today.
The basics of enterprise sales
What is enterprise sales? In this article, you'll learn the evolution of strategy in enterprise sales as well as the four stages of a complex sale. We'll walk you from the discovery stage to implementation so you can close bigger deals faster.
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An overview of business contingency plans
Many circumstances have the potential to disrupt your business, but you can prepare for potential disaster with a business contingency plan. Read over the steps and check out our templates to build out your own plan.
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5 Reasons SQS Lambda Triggers Are a Big Deal
Due to the recent announcement of AWS Lambda support for SQS triggers, Jerry Hargrove explains the benefits and limitations of SQS triggers so you can figure out whether it's the right solution for your project.