Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches

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Budget Intervals for Enhanced Budget Management

We have great news for all those agencies and freelancers working on a retainer. As the title says, ActiveCollab now has a new feature in the project budget area!Retainer DefinitionBefore we get started, let's pause for a moment and define what's a retainer. Sometimes, service providers find clients ...

Product 3 min read

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ActiveCollab 8.0: User Card, Pin Discussions

Hello everyone,Welcome to May's edition of ActiveCollab's updates! Our previous recap discussed the Self-hosted upgrade and the development of version 8.0. This time, we'll talk about user cards and pinned discussions.User CardIn ActiveCollab 8.0, it will be possible to open a user's card throughout ...

Recaps 2 min read

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Stages Of Team Development: Explained in Detail

Don’t you just wish putting together a high-performing team was as simple as getting the best individuals together and then watching as magic takes place? Unfortunately, that sort of thing only happens in the movies.Or does it? When you really think about it, people not getting along at first, but ...

Team Collaboration 8 min read

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What Is Team Dynamics? Importance, Key Elements, and Factors

You have probably uttered the phrase “greater than the sum of its parts” so many times in your life without giving it much thought. But as cliched as it might sound, that is the exact philosophy behind every great team.Research shows that 97% of workers and employers believe that a lack of team alignment ...

Team Collaboration 8 min read

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MoSCoW Method of Prioritization: What Is It & How It Works

Your list of project requirements is endless. The time frame, tight. The budget, minimal (there’s a shocker). And your resources, scarce. Even with the most optimistic, go-getter attitude and mindset, you know meeting the deadline with the full list of priorities delivered is an impossible feat. Whenever ...

Project Management 8 min read

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Time Blocking: Fail-Proof Guide For Ultimate Productivity

Just because you’re working long hours doesn’t mean you’re being productive. In fact, according to Business News Daily, research has found that overtime is the one thing that’s likely to lead to lower levels of productivity. So, what increases productivity, then? We did a bit of reading, and ...

Productivity 12 min read

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ActiveCollab 8.0: Improved Search and Task Navigation

Hello everyone,Welcome to the latest recap of ActiveCollab’s updates! Last time, we talked about how your changes will be synchronized with the current version if you’re trying out ActiveCollab 8.0 and vice versa. This time, we’ll discuss new search options and easier task navigation.Improved SearchPerhaps ...

Recaps 2 min read

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Eat The Frog: tackle the hardest, important tasks first

What’s the very first thing you do at the start of your working day? Do you ease into it with some cruisy email responses, or do you jump straight into the hard tasks? The ones you’d like to ignore, but know you can’t because they’ll keep coming back to stare you down. The ones that seem to evolve ...

Productivity 8 min read

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ActiveCollab Is the Backbone of Our Work

Havelkadesign was created in Osijek (Croatia) by interior designer Jelena Havelka, who holds an MA in Interior Design diploma from the prestigious University of Westminster in London. Last year the company celebrated its first decade of successful work.Our StoryThe business adapted through the years ...

Customer Stories 1 min read

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Synchronous communication: what is it & when to use it?

Your average workplace has changed a lot. And we do mean a lot, especially over the course of the last five years. Of course, a lot of it has to do with the pandemic, but also with companies seeing that remote workers can be just as productive as those who commute to work every day.According to stats ...

Team Collaboration 9 min read

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