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ZenTao once again stands out from the crowd as the most common test management tool in the industry. This is the eighth year in a row that ZenTao has been the winner of "Common Test Management Tools"!

Before we dig down on to consider migration from Jira to ZenTao, let’s start with the basics, for business positions, who might be new to this. We’ll briefly introduce you to Jira, it’s the most popular alternative — ZenTao, and then touch base on the most common reasons, why businesses decided to move from Jira to ZenTao.

This article explores the complex relationship between project agility and automation, examining whether they form a symbiotic partnership or an imbalanced pursuit. It highlights automation's benefits in accelerating delivery, improving quality, and freeing up team time, while also warning against the risks of over-automation, such as high costs, reduced flexibility, and diminished human oversight. The conclusion emphasizes the need for a strategic approach that balances automation with agility, prioritizing human creativity and adaptability to effectively meet customer needs in a dynamic business environment.

This article emphasizes the critical role of problem-solving skills for software project managers. It introduces a closed-loop system for addressing issues and highlights methods like 5W1H and 5 Whys for early-stage priority identification. Additionally, it presents ZenTao as an effective tool for end-to-end project tracking across planning, execution, checking, and acting phases, ensuring timely issue resolution and project success.

This article emphasizes the critical importance of work inspection for new managers. It highlights three common pitfalls, including random, formalistic, and excessive inspection, and outlines five key areas for effective oversight: status, methods, progress, processes, and habits. Mastering these ensures issues are caught early, goals are achieved, and teams remain aligned and effective.

This article discusses how software remote control enhances cross-regional collaboration but faces challenges in authorized whitelist testing and communication efficiency. It introduces ZenTao as an integrated tool that offers test management, automated verification, and scenario simulation to streamline whitelist validation. Additionally, ZenTao improves remote collaboration through transparent workflows, real-time feedback, and traceable processes, ensuring both security and operational efficiency.

This article addresses the pervasive challenge of project fragmentation in fields such as IT and construction, where disjointed processes and data silos waste resources and obscure objectives. It proposes that the solution lies in adopting systematic methodologies centered on goal orientation, process integration, and tool empowerment. Using ZenTao software as a case study, the article demonstrates how layered requirements, automated workflows, and data-driven adjustments can transform fragmented tasks into efficient, aligned systems—turning chaos into clarity and promoting growth for both projects and individuals.

This article argues that "IT must understand business" is a false proposition, as IT and business have long had conflicting logics and communication gaps. It notes the lack of shared beliefs as a core issue, then proposes fostering "business technologists"—hybrids of technical and business mindsets—instead of interpreters. It also outlines four organizational steps (leader-driven barrier-breaking, restructured incentives, mutual tech-business understanding, IT embedding) to cultivate them, concluding that true digital transformation needs merged agile teams focused on customer value.

This article explores the current state of automated testing amid the accelerated software development driven by Agile and DevOps. It notes that automated testing has evolved from a "nice-to-have" to an essential tool, with expanding application scope across enterprises of all sizes. Tools like ZenTao, which integrate with frameworks such as Selenium and JMeter, boost efficiency by unifying test lifecycle management, aiding tasks like regression and cross-platform testing. While challenges like high script maintenance exist, they are addressable. Automated testing complements (not replaces) manual testing, and AI integration and expanded use in fields like IoT signal its intelligent, efficient future.

This article argues that proactive customer follow-up, not passive waiting, is key to business success, countering the misleading idea that "customers will come naturally." It highlights Philip Kotler’s view that marketing requires initiative, notes that fears of follow-up stem from misconceptions (e.g., seeing it as undignified), and emphasizes ZenTao Project Management Software as a tool to enable systematic, value-driven follow-up—helping enterprises convey product value, trigger customer desire, and stand out in competition.

This article first explains that enterprises using IPD focus on long-term multi-business development via the Boston Matrix, noting TDTs (as IPD’s "hidden experts") are key for technical planning. It then details TDTs’ three characteristics, which are cross-functionality, high-quality control, and product strategy support, along with their role in removing technical obstacles and their mini-IPD-aligned process, emphasizing TDTs’ importance for solid product R&D.

This article first presents two real cases of remote project delays caused by "lack of awareness" (e.g., neglected technical debt, cross-time zone information gaps), noting managers often misattribute the issue to team responsibility or trust. It then proposes ZenTao’s high-awareness project management model via dashboards (macro-awareness), visual toolchains (micro-traceability), and automation/integration to solve the problem, concluding with ZenTao’s mission to enable seamless collaboration for growing enterprises.