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
What do giants like McDonald's, Apple, Starbucks, and Walmart have in common, besides having more than 100,000 employees? They all started small with no more than a few people and then grew. Can you imagine the road Walmart had to journey from a humble Five and Dime store in Arkansas to a global empire ...
Growth • • 7 min read
Things change as you grow. Even though you still provide the same service/product, you need to change how you do it. Running a business with 40 employees is not the same as running it with 10. There are some common stages every company goes through as it grows. The most well-known growth models are Greiner's ...
Growth • • 6 min read
Not all team building games are beneficial. When you’re planning team-building activities and reading about what games you can use, they might all seem good on paper but turn into a disaster when you actually try to implement them. People get bored, don’t understand the rules, or think the game is ...
Growth • • 7 min read
The job of identifying key players in your company is too important to be left to HR (if you even have it). As a small/medium business owner, you should personally work on keeping your top talent. After all, those people are the reason why you’re in business and if you want to keep it growing, you ...
Growth • • 3 min read
Having a good project manager can make or break your organization, especially if you are running a small business or a startup. So, hiring a project manager should be a no-brainer then, right? Right? Well, it turns out that it’s more of a question of when, not if. Hire too late, and you have chaos ...
Growth • • 7 min read
How to do simple yet useful sprint reporting Previously, I wrote how to delegate responsibilities and automated reports I receive from my VPs. Now, here’s an actual example of a report, so you can see how it works in real life. The example is related to the agile reporting and how I stay updated on ...
Project Management • • 3 min read
Billing is too important to leave it to your accountant. You want to bill quickly and often bill to keep money coming in at all times - the last thing you want is to miss payroll and lose employees. But to bill often, the process has to be really quick and simple. Otherwise, you'll keep putting off creating ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
Keeping projects on track isn’t just about deadlines – it’s about spotting detours before they turn into disasters. From shifting priorities to resource hiccups, the real skill is managing change without losing control. Do it right, and project chaos becomes progress with direction.
Project Management • • 9 min read
A solid project plan turns chaos into clarity. It maps out who’s doing what, when, and how — so nothing slips through the cracks. For agencies juggling clients, deadlines, and moving parts, smart planning is the difference between “barely made it” and “nailed it.”
Project Management • • 9 min read
The new ActiveCollab is very different from the previous one, and our website reflects that. This time we had an underlying philosophy and our lead UX designer tied all the pieces together. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, we traveled back in time to see how our website evolved since 2006 when we published ...
Design • • 3 min read
Having everyone on the same page is why project collaboration tools are so useful to teams. Because of this, it's very important to decide how people are notified about updates. There are three things to consider when looking for an optimal solution: 1. Which events are significant enough to justify ...
Design • • 4 min read