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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8 ways to delegate tasks for maximum efficiency

Delegation is an essential leadership skill. Especially for growing businesses. As your client base and service offerings grow, you come face-to-face with the fact you can’t take care of everything on your own. You realize you need to start delegating and fast. If you don’t, you’ll either lose ...

Team Collaboration 10 min read

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Improved Search Bar, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View

Hello everyone,Welcome to the November edition of ActiveCollab's recaps! Before we begin discussing what we've been up to in the past month, let's review what we talked about last time: sorting tasks by their start date in My Work and in-line editing of titles of tasks and task lists, and quickly changing ...

Recaps 2 min read

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Eisenhower Decision Matrix Explained [Urgent vs. Important]

How clear are you on the difference between urgent and important? And when the time comes to work out if a task is one or the other (or perhaps both), can you do it? How do you decide?These are all questions the Eisenhower decision matrix, a task prioritization technique can help solve. If we follow ...

Project Management 9 min read

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Group Tasks by Start Date, ActiveCollab 8.0: List View

Hello everyone,Welcome to the latest ActiveCollab updates! Last month, we talked about our work on the upcoming version 8.0 of the app, specifically the list view and task filters. This time, we'll go over a new addition to My Work and the progress we’ve made with ActiveCollab 8.0.My WorkMy Work is ...

Recaps 1 min read

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How To Create a Project Roadmap? A Step-by-Step Guide

Question: What’s the best way to present your project to a group of stakeholders? A: A project roadmap, B: A 20-page Project Initiation Document, or C: A project plan?If you're struggling to answer this question, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. We get it: project management can get a bit ...

Project Management 9 min read

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List View and Task Filtering

Hello everyone,We're ready to bring you the latest updates in our September recap! In our previous post, we mentioned availability notifications and the file options that will be available when ActiveCollab 8.0 is released. This month's edition brings news on our progress in building the new version.List ...

Recaps 1 min read

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Availability Notifications, Filtering and Sorting Project Files

Hello everyone,Welcome to the summer edition of ActiveCollab's recaps! Last time, we talked about default tax rates, comment timestamps, and the brand-new version of the app. This time, we'll go over the already available features and the ones you'll be able to access once ActiveCollab 8.0 is released.Availability ...

Recaps 2 min read

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Micro Marketing Environment

Companies must be aware of how the marketing environment affects their decision-making processes. Failing to do so could make them face a potential downfall and even go out of business. On the other hand, companies could always explore potential revenue opportunities if they are aware of the marketing ...

Project Management 5 min read

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ActiveCollab Helps Power Our Collaborative Copywriting

At AnitaLovett.com, we are heavily invested in the creation of story-based copywriting. We believe everyone has a story, and every story deserves to be well told. We use our trade skills to forge high-quality words that work.Our StoryMy name is Anita. I’m the Founder and Lead Wordsmith at Anita Lovett ...

Customer Stories 2 min read

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What is an Iterative Process & Why It Matters For Agencies?

Getting your product or service as fast as possible in front of your customers has become imperative. Let’s consider Apple’s iPhone for a second. We get a new one in September of every year, like clockwork.And when you think about it, 12 months is an insanely short time to market, considering how ...

Project Management 8 min read

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Risk Matrix Analysis in Project Management

According to many studies, more than 60% of projects are either late or fail to deliver to specifications. Risk is one of the aspects that can impact timeline, budget, scope, and project resources, and there is no way of knowing when it will happen. Most of the time, you will feel like all the odds are ...

Project Management 5 min read

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What Is a Project Management Tool?

Project management tool assist individuals and teams in managing and organizing their tasks and projects effectively. Project management software is not specifically designed for project managers. It is customized and adjusted to fit the needs of a team of different sizing and with different organizational ...

Project Management 8 min read