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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Getting To Know Agile Core Values

The term agile is used quite loosely today, but what does it really mean? Can a strategy or a team be agile by simply following a step-by-step development plan?Many organizations have evolved, and their professionals need to be familiar with agile more precisely. By knowing agile's fundamental principles ...

Project Management 4 min read

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More Flexibility With Project Templates

If you chose ActiveCollab to manage your projects, we bet you've done a great job organizing your team's tasks. Dishing out assignments and setting up due dates should come as easy as losing track of time while watching video clips of sassy huskies.We're sure you're already familiar with some tricks ...

Product 2 min read

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Project Management Deliverables

No one can deny that deliverables play a significant role in completing a project on time, within budget, and with minimal effort. Deliverables are one of the things that will guide your team members, set up stakeholders' expectations, and help you establish a step-by-step action plan for achieving your ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Float in Project Management

Project managers who have been in this business for a long time know that plans are very variable. Even the best-thought-out plans can go astray, and one delayed task can derail the entire project.That's why experienced project managers use management flow to keep everything in line. If you want to avoid ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Guide to Stakeholder Mapping

Stakeholder mapping is an important term when it comes to handling different types of stakeholders and their influence on your project. Once you have successfully implemented a stakeholder map, you will easily bypass obstacles and navigate your way around potential problems.Depending on your business ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Risk Register in Project Management

Project managers employ various tools to complete tasks on time or overcome potential obstacles. One of the common tools they use is a project risk register.A risk register is used to assess any risks your project may face, and it’s a crucial component in project management because it helps managers ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Fast Tracking in Project Management

How often have you worked on a project and still missed a deadline? Maybe you took more than you can handle, or simply failed to estimate how long it would take you to finalize everything.Whatever the case may be, it's downright frustrating when the project starts to fall behind. One of the best ways ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Crashing in Project Management

There is never enough time when it comes to project management. By making schedules, we try to control the outcome of the project. However, even when managers are successful, things can go astray.While changes are welcomed and often necessary, the project manager's job is to ensure those changes don't ...

Project Management 4 min read

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The Importance of Project Management

What if you had to handle projects on the go, without a plan, organization, or any order? You would just brief your team, tell them what needs to be done, and they will be on board with everything you just proposed!This is how things work in an ideal business setting. However, projects aren't that simple ...

Project Management 4 min read