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Product Management

9 best productivity tools for product managers

Productivity is crucial for product managers, who are responsible for wearing many hats (a.k.a are very busy!). We surveyed product managers at some of the top companies in the industry, including Google, Microsoft, and Vercel, to find out their favorite tools for staying organized and on track. Here

Interviews

A Q&A with Jonathan Ross, Israel's Head of QA at Just Eat Takeaway: from kibbutz farmer to QA in the metaverse

This week we talked to Jonathan Ross, Head of QA at Just Eat Takeaway. His path to QA is wild: from Kibbutz farmer, to leading QA in the metaverse, to now running a QA team at Just Eat Takeaway, the leading global online food delivery marketplace. So, what’s it

Getting Started

Step by step guide: how to use Jam for ClickUp

Welcome! In this guide we will help you get started logging bugs to ClickUp blazingly fast using the Jam for ClickUp browser extension. What does Jam for ClickUp do? Integrate ClickUp with Jam to be able to log bugs as ClickUp tasks extremely fast without context switching. ClickUp tasks created

Introducing Jam for ClickUp – log bugs 20x faster!

Introducing Jam for ClickUp – an ultra-fast way to log bugs in ClickUp! Now you can create perfectly filled out ClickUp tasks in 2 clicks. Every task automatically includes all the developer details to help engineers fix bugs faster. Here are the engineering goodies Jam auto-includes in every ClickUp task: * ✅ Console

Developer Productivity

How to move fast and not break things as a remote company

The Facebook-era “move fast and break things” startup motto no longer applies in today’s hyper-competitive environment. This is especially true for SaaS startups like Jam, where customers trust and rely on their products to complete their work. If you’ve met anyone on the Jam team, you know we

Founders

Bugs vs. product-market fit: why even startups need to build high quality products

When you're in the earliest stages of your startup trying to find product-market fit, the advice everyone gives you is to ship fast and ship messy, because you'll know you have product-market fit when users are willing to jump through hoops and use your product even

Just launched: report bugs to GitHub in seconds!

We just launched Jam for GitHub on ProductHunt! It’s the fastest way to log bugs to GitHub issues. Every issue auto-includes console & network logs, so devs love it too. If you have 30 seconds, we would love your help with an upvote! ❤️ Give a ❤️ on ProductHunt! Now you

Interviews

A Q&A with Kirk Fernandes, founder of Merit, on must-have productivity tools, habits and workflows as a startup CEO

Each week we talk to people we admire to learn about how they work: their processes, tools they use, and what drives them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. So you might get inspired and learn something

Developer Productivity

5 tools you can use to boost developer productivity

It's really important on any team to use tools, processes and workflows that unblock developers and help boost their productivity. Luckily, there are some great tools out there who help solve pieces of the developer productivity puzzle. We're building one – Jam – saving developers hundreds of thousands

Interviews

A Q&A with Omar Morales on being the Founding Engineering Manager at Chessly

Each week we talk to people we admire to learn about how they work: their processes, the tools they use, and what drives them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. So you might get inspired and learn

QA

So, you’ve been asked for a HAR file. Here’s what to do.

Welcome to the easiest guide to sending a HAR file. Below are steps for Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge and Firefox. Engineers often ask for HAR files to help them debug issues you’ve reported. It’s going to take you just a minute or two to do and it will

Interviews

A Q&A with Nemo Blackburn on must-have tools, habits and workflows as the Founding Product Manager at Primitives

Each week we talk to people we admire to learn about how they work: their processes, tools they use, and what drives them. It's an opportunity to get a sneak peek into how other builders and makers do their jobs. So you might get inspired and learn something

Founders

8 fundraising tips I learned as a VC to help you raise your seed round.

Raising VC is one of the most confusing parts of being a founder. Before co-founding Jam, I was really lucky to spend a few years as a VC at Union Square Ventures and watch hundreds of founders pitch. Of course there's no one good way to raise, but

QA

How to hire your first QA person at your startup

Building a bug-free product is important at any company, but at a startup especially, it can make all the difference. While there’s an old startup trope that your product should be so needed that people will use it even when it’s buggy, that advice does not seem to

Building Jam

How to spin up recruiting at your early-stage startup, the Jam recruiting playbook

When we needed to recruit our first hires at Jam, after we exhausted asking everyone we knew for recommendations, we weren’t sure where to go from there. Do we just post on LinkedIn? Do we work with a recruiting agency? Is TopTal or Hired the way to go? We

Building Jam

8 tips for building a fast-paced remote startup culture

Building a remote startup isn't easy. How do you build a fast-paced, collaborative culture when everyone is remote? At Jam, we've learned a lot about how to build a remote startup over the past two years. Here are some of our favorite tips and tricks for

My favorite lesser known tools for startup founders

Hey startup founders! Here are my favorite lesser-known tools that I use and rely on as a founder. What are yours? Journey - for creating awesome presentations really fast Hireflow - for automating reaching out to potential candidates right from their Linkedin profiles Daily Toast - my favorite standup timer

Product Management

How to run a retrospective (remotely)

Retrospectives can be an incredibly important part of any product team's process. At Jam, we do 15-30 minute retrospectives after every major feature ships, and after every production incident. Retrospectives have had incredible impactful at Jam. Many of the ways we do things now are a direct result

Product Management

The best free bug reporting template for QA and PMs

Bug reporting is an essential part of any product development process but doing it effectively is often easier said than done. Finding and logging bugs improperly can bug your development team big time if you aren't careful. Bug reporting templates can go a long way towards saving time

QA

Smoke testing vs. sanity testing: the easiest guide to understanding the difference

Perhaps this is your first product, or perhaps it's your 100th. Either way, it's testing time, baby! But testing time is tricky if you aren't familiar with the nomenclature developers and QA testers use in product development. Two of those terms are "smoke

QA

The simplest guide to creating a traceability matrix for QA

One of the most helpful ways to document your product for QA is by creating a traceability matrix. A traceability matrix is exactly what it sounds like: a handy grid that allows you to trace which of your test cases map to which of your product features and requirements. It

Engineering

Top 5 picks: Chrome extensions for developers

There are so many great Chrome extensions to help developers, but with so many to try, how do you know which ones are actually great? I asked the developers on the Jam team for the ones they use every day. Here are our top picks! 👇 1 – ModHeader Easiest way to

QA

5 best Chrome extensions for QA

QA can be a tedious task, but fortunately, there are many tools that make it a lot easier. Chrome extensions, in particular, go a long way to taking the frustration out of QA. Here are our top picks for the 5 best Chrome extensions for QA. 👇 #1 BugMagnet – best for

Product Management

Your ultimate guide to user acceptance testing (UAT)

The phrase "test, test, test" is thrown around so much that it's become a bit of a cliche. But there is a rationale behind the phrase's popularity. Testing is vital for software development teams (even if it's a bit of a drain!

Project Management

Scrum explained: the easiest understandable guide to scrum

You can't go to a dev conference, read most companies' LinkedIn posts, or watch anything about project management on YouTube without hearing the word "scrum" thrown around. "Scrum" is without a doubt a buzzword, but it's more than just a future-oriented