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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.

Enterprises are increasingly adopting agile management because of its capability to succeed in volatile environments, as evidenced by the success of tech giants. Based on four core values (people, working products, customer collaboration, adaptability), it places emphasis on team interaction, iterative improvement, customer feedback, and flexible planning. Although challenges such as organizational resistance exist, training and technological tools assist in its implementation. With the trend of digitalization, it will expand across various business areas and become crucial for survival.

This article explores how brands like Uber and Domino's use "psychological moon shots"—small, low-cost changes leveraging psychological principles (e.g., Peak-End Rule, Aversion to Idle Time) to enhance customer experience. By focusing on perception over tangible improvements, companies can reduce anxiety, boost satisfaction, and drive loyalty, proving psychological insights are key to cost-effective value creation.

This article highlights agile management as a powerful method to boost team efficiency by cutting unnecessary workloads. It emphasizes quick decision-making by those closest to tasks, innovating work methods (e.g., a hospital halving operating room reset time), removing distant decision-makers, setting realistic workloads via past data, and prioritizing rapid action with feedback. Used by top firms, it aims to maximize productivity through focus and efficiency.

In the digital era, software development engineers need comprehensive skills to succeed. Technical competencies include mastering programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript), frameworks (Spring, React), Git for version control, and SQL/NoSQL databases. Project management skills involve agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and tools like JIRA/ZenTao. Soft skills such as debugging, communication, and a continuous learning mindset are also crucial for team collaboration and adapting to industry changes.

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.