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      <title>reduce POs and PMs time on documentation and planning</title>
      <dc:creator>Markus Hofer</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/markus_at/reduce-pos-and-pms-time-on-documentation-and-planning-18j7</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hey everyone,&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I noticed that Product Owners (POs) and Product Managers (PMs) spend a significant amount of time on documentation—writing product requirements, stories, and acceptance criteria. Translate them then into Jira or any other tool, so that developers can start to work. Which makes live for Product Owners and developers pretty horrible...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Wanting to help, I developed a tool that generates all your documentation, project plan, stories and so on based on your project requirements in just about 2 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I've tested it with some PO and PM friends, and they report saving up to 4-6 weeks in a project! Now, I'm eager to expand this and get feedback from a larger audience to assist even more POs and PMs within our community.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I'm wondering if someone would be interested to test the solution. It's free for now as we are still collecting feedback, even though that the functionality is already fully given.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Just register yourself using the following link: &lt;a href="https://your.bestcase.work" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://your.bestcase.work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please find here a quick onboarding-guide &lt;a href="https://bestcase.work/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/EN-bc-customer-guide.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://bestcase.work/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/EN-bc-customer-guide.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Once you are done we would highly appreciate if you could take 2 minutes to answer the feedback-form, using the following link: &lt;a href="https://bestcase.work/user-feedback/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://bestcase.work/user-feedback/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In case you have any questions just send me a message.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Many thanks, Markus&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>One-Click Project Planning for smart IT Teams</title>
      <dc:creator>Markus Hofer</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 14:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/markus_at/one-click-project-planning-for-smart-it-teams-42dh</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/markus_at/one-click-project-planning-for-smart-it-teams-42dh</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi developers,  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We're Markus and Patric, two passionate developers who have navigated the complexities of IT ecosystems and high-pressure software teams for years. Like many of you, we’ve grappled with challenging work cultures, vague customer requirements, scope creep, and a lack of transparency—all under the weight of tight deadlines and unhealthy pressure. 😟  After exploring numerous tools, from industry giants to lesser-known platforms, we found that none could fully meet our needs with a 100% focus on IT specialization.  That’s why we created &lt;strong&gt;BestCase&lt;/strong&gt; — designed by developers for developers, designers, product owners, project managers, scrum masters, dev ops specialists, testers, and other IT professionals.  BestCase cuts IT project planning time to under 5 minutes. It integrates everything from initial idea sketches to final solution findings, with AI-powered automation for cross-departmental steps.  This framework supports genuine collaborative work, granting IT teams at least an additional 6 weeks for project execution and dramatically reducing time-to-market.  BestCase is more than just another tool; it's a complete project management solution and a simulated IT ecosystem in a single browser tab. It eliminates the manual and cross-departmental work steps that cost you and your team thousands of minutes and consume immense amounts of time, so you can focus on what matters most. And the time to market for everything you successfully implement is drastically reduced at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Get started for FREE: &lt;a href="https://www.bestcase.work"&gt;https://www.bestcase.work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🐣Features&lt;br&gt;
✔ AI-supported generation of user stories&lt;br&gt;
✔ AI-supported generation of features, test-cases and acceptance criterias&lt;br&gt;
✔ Table, Gantt, Kanban, Dashboard views&lt;br&gt;
✔ Workload-management of team-members&lt;br&gt;
✔ Manage your team including their skills&lt;br&gt;
✔ Task management&lt;br&gt;
✔ Time-Tracking&lt;br&gt;
✔ Project-Portfolio Dashboard&lt;br&gt;
✔ Agile methodology&lt;br&gt;
✔ Waterfall methodology&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Read more about Bestcase: &lt;a href="https://www.bestcase.work"&gt;https://www.bestcase.work&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🥇Who is BestCase for?&lt;br&gt;
✔ Freelancers in IT-industry&lt;br&gt;
✔ Product Owners&lt;br&gt;
✔ Project Managers&lt;br&gt;
✔ IT-Teams&lt;br&gt;
✔ Software Agencies&lt;br&gt;
✔ Software Departments&lt;br&gt;
✔ Remote teams&lt;br&gt;
✔ AI-enthusiasts&lt;br&gt;
✔ YOU&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Feel free to register and PLEASE let us know what you think. We've just launched the beta-version and still looking for feedback. Made by developers for developers.&lt;/p&gt;

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