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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.

ZenTao Performance Management is not just a set of tools but the core engine for a team's digital transformation. Through data transparency, process automation, and scientific decision-making, teams can break through the "black hole" of R&D management and achieve a leap from "fire-fighting management" to "preventive optimization."

Leaders should focus on chasing the process rather than just results. Common pitfalls in process management include post-hoc analysis and micromanagement. Effective process chasing needs rigidity (core objectives, red lines) and agility (iterative steps, flexibility), with six practical approaches like tracking goals and skills.

This guide outlines five crucial interview questions to identify ideal candidates: unique value contribution, crisis leadership, learning agility, cultural fit, and self-awareness. It introduces the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) for behavioral assessment and emphasizes post-hire strategies like strength-based deployment and continuous development. Moving beyond resume evaluation, it advocates for probing questions that reveal true capabilities and compatibility, helping build teams that combine specialized skills with shared values and growth potential.

Project communication management is crucial for Internet software projects, covering planning, release, reporting and closure. ZenTao software supports each aspect, like defining stakeholders in planning, providing sharing platforms in release, offering tools for reporting, and archiving info in closure, ensuring project success.

This text expounds on product manager methodology in requirement analysis. It divides requirement analysis into collection and analysis stages. Requirement collection covers product, functional and iterative requirements. Requirement analysis involves understanding needs, judging authenticity, analyzing solutions, and industry structure. It also explains how to identify user pain points, construct scenarios, etc., and emphasizes the importance and methods of requirement analysis.

This article discusses the challenges faced by the financial securities industry in project management, such as being out of touch with the market, complex business logic, and strict regulatory requirements. It then presents the "three highs" characteristics of financial industry project management. ZenTao offers solutions like building communication bridges among departments, integrating mainstream management models, providing a DevOps platform, customizing approval flows, and enabling intelligent R&D efficiency analysis to boost digital transformation.

In the complex landscape of B2B product development, traditional evaluation methods often fall short due to the involvement of multiple stakeholders and intricate workflows. Implementing a data-driven evaluation framework addresses these challenges by providing objective measurements, enhancing transparency, and facilitating informed decision-making. By systematically defining objectives, identifying relevant metrics, establishing baselines, and continuously analyzing data, organizations can iteratively refine their products to better meet user needs and achieve strategic business goals.

This article explores how the rapid rise of AI is transforming the IT industry, creating both opportunities and challenges for professionals. It highlights the growing pressure, job uncertainty, and the need for continuous upskilling. The piece also offers practical strategies for IT workers to adapt, including embracing human-centric skills, resilience, and ethical awareness, while stressing the role of organizations in supporting workforce transitions.

This article explores the differences and synergies between Agile and DevOps methodologies, analyzing their roles in modern software development. It argues that instead of replacing Agile, DevOps builds upon it to enhance automation, collaboration, and delivery efficiency.

This article explores how modern enterprises can build product-centric competitive advantage through five key principles: infusing vitality into products, balancing function and emotion, user-centered design, aligning products with corporate philosophy, and learning from competitors to drive continuous innovation and market leadership.