Gartner Recognizes Atlassian as a Leader in Collaborative Work Solutions

In Today’s edition:

1. Atlassian Secures Leadership Spot in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Work Management

2. Free Resources To Build Smarter Systems and Improve Your Automation Skills

3. ClickUp Unveils AI Assistant to Rival Slack and Notion

4. PMNA TUTORIAL: Build a Client Feedback Analyzer Using Typeform + GPT + Airtable

5. TOOL REVIEW: Skarbe is the AI-Powered CRM and Project Assistant That Lives in Your Inbox

6. Exciting Career Opportunities for Product and Project Management Professionals

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Atlassian Secures Leadership Spot in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Work Management

Atlassian has been recognised as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Collaborative Work Management. The firm emphasizes that its offerings deliver connected planning, execution and organisational knowledge in an AI-powered system of work that enables teams to focus on impact rather than process.

• Atlassian’s work management solution enables connectivity, visibility and intelligence across teams and work stages.

• The evaluation covers what defines a modern collaborative work-management platform, how organisations should evaluate vendors, and why Atlassian ranked as a Leader.

• Atlassian highlights its “Teamwork Collection” (including tools such as Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo) as the backbone of its collaborative work-management offer.

• Atlassian emphasises AI-powered context and integrations (e.g., marketplace apps) as differentiators for modern teamwork and execution.

• The report is presented as a free downloadable resource from Atlassian’s site, aimed at helping organisations evaluate collaborative work-management vendors.

In other words, Atlassian is positioning itself not just as a provider of project tools, but as a platform for unified, intelligent work across planning, execution and knowledge. For organisations looking to move beyond siloed task management toward integrated team workflows, the Gartner recognition reinforces Atlassian’s claims of leadership in the space. Read More

Free Resources To Build Smarter Systems and Improve Your Automation Skills

If you’ve been looking for ways to streamline your workflow or bring your automation ideas to life, now’s the perfect time to dive in. For teams experimenting with new tools or refining existing processes, these two opportunities can help turn initial concepts into powerful, working systems.

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This is your chance to build, learn, and collaborate with others who are just as passionate about automation as you are. Explore these resources, bring your curiosity, and take the next step toward creating systems that save time and scale effortlessly.

ClickUp Unveils AI Assistant to Rival Slack and Notion

ClickUp has rolled out a major upgrade—its 4.0 release—which introduces new AI-assistant features intended to position the platform as a unified work hub and intensify competition with Slack and Notion. The move comes as ClickUp seeks to expand beyond tasks and docs into communication, meetings and enterprise search.

• ClickUp’s AI assistant, built on its acquisition of Qatalog, can proactively surface answers by scanning internal and external sources like Google Drive, OneDrive, Figma and Gmail.

• A second AI tool, dubbed “Brain”, lives in the sidebar and can generate ideas, schedule meetings, create tasks or comments, analyze reports and access web integrations.

• The update enables better switching between work modes—tasks, docs, communications—with new UI elements such as forums, analytics, dashboards and a “SyncUp” live call button per channel.

• ClickUp says it has surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and plans for a potential public listing within two years.

• By integrating communication, enterprise search, tasks, docs and AI-assisted workflows into one product, ClickUp aims to match or replace Slack, Notion and Microsoft Teams for many users.

For solopreneurs, agencies and small teams keeping an eye on productivity stacks, ClickUp’s shift signals a clearer bet on “one workspace” powered by AI rather than piecemeal tool‐chains. If ClickUp can deliver as promised, it may shift how teams choose between platforms—and notably raise the bar for what “collaborative work management” tools are expected to do. Read more

How To Build a Client Feedback Analyzer Using Typeform + GPT + Airtable

Collecting and analyzing client feedback manually can be time-consuming and inconsistent. By integrating Typeform, GPT, and Airtable, you can automatically collect responses, analyze sentiment, identify key themes, and store insights in a structured dashboard — turning every piece of feedback into actionable intelligence.

You’ll learn how to:

• Create a Typeform survey to collect client feedback.

• Set up an Airtable base with fields for sentiment, summary, themes, and action items.

• Use Make (or Zapier) to trigger whenever a new Typeform response is received.

• Send each response to GPT to extract sentiment, themes, and recommended actions.

• Parse GPT’s JSON output and log structured data into Airtable.

• (Optional) Send Slack alerts for high-priority or negative feedback.

• Build Airtable views and dashboards to track sentiment trends and recurring themes.

Why it matters:

By connecting these tools, you’ll create a real-time feedback intelligence system that surfaces insights instantly and helps teams respond faster. No more sifting through messy feedback — just clean, categorized, and prioritized insights ready for decision-making.

FULL TUTORIAL HERE

Skarbe is the AI-Powered CRM and Project Assistant That Lives in Your Inbox

Skarbe is a next-generation, AI-powered sales assistant platform that embeds directly in your inbox and calendar, automating follow-ups, deal tracking, and meeting intelligence so you don’t have to rely on a traditional CRM. By capturing conversations, generating draft responses, logging contact activity and summarizing meetings, it frees you from manual data entry and keeps your pipeline moving smoothly.

• AI-driven follow-up drafts and automatic follow-up sequences.

• Meeting recording, transcription and searchable timeline of action items.

• Automatic capture of contacts from email threads, form fills and meeting attendees.

• Lead-qualification and contact enrichment built into the workflow.

• Workspace-based pricing with unlimited users and integrations via Zapier for broader automation.

For project managers who routinely juggle stakeholder meetings, email threads, deliverable schedules and status updates, Skarbe offers an appealing solution: it reduces the overhead of logging communications, ensures no threads fall through the cracks, and surfaces next actions automatically. That means less time spent updating spreadsheets or CRMs and more time focused on driving project milestones. If you’re managing projects where clear alignment, timely follow-ups and transparent communication matter, Skarbe can serve as a lightweight, intelligent “pipeline manager” for your stakeholder and meeting ecosystem.

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Exciting Career Opportunities for Product and Project Management Professionals

• Project Manager @ Stryker

  📍 Durham, NC.

• Program Manager @ Fidelity TalentSource

  📍 Durham, NC.

• Senior Project Manager @ CESO, Inc.

  📍 Charlotte, NC.

• Product Manager - Red Hat Lightspeed @ Red Hat, Inc.

  📍 Raleigh, NC.

• Product Manager, AI Powered Messaging @ Jerry

  📍 Raleigh, NC.

THAT’S A WRAP