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
One of the common questions among many scrum teams is the difference between the definition of done and acceptance criteria and how they affect user stories. While acceptance criteria relate more to software development, the definition of done is unique to scrum.People tend to mix these two terms, but ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Estimation is quite challenging to master, but a crucial part of the Agile methodology. As a business owner or manager, it’s your responsibility to estimate the work and plan ahead. But not everyone is good at it, so we try to make estimates because they help us shape the rough idea of what the future ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Hello everyone,Here's your monthly dose of ActiveCollab's updates! This time you're in for a treat:New mobile appCustom chat groupsProject page improvementsActiveCollab on iOS and AndroidAfter a long wait, it's finally here! Our new app lets you collaborate on the go. Quick disclaimer: you won't find ...
Recaps • • 1 min read
There is nothing better than having clients who pay their invoices on time, right? The reality is, some of them will ghost you, and you will have no idea what to do. This can happen to anyone, regardless of how seasoned or inexperienced you are. We hope you aren't one of those business owners who learned ...
Growth • • 4 min read
- Knock knock!- Who's there?- The ActiveCollab Team.- The ActiveCollab Team who?- The ActiveCollab Team who is thrilled to announce the new Mobile App is officially out! We know many of you have been waiting for a way to collaborate with your team when you're on the go. So our developers made sure to ...
Product • • 3 min read
In the last 20 years, time spent at work has increased by 15%, and leisure time has decreased by as much as 33%!Yet despite that, are you still struggling to keep up with meeting your agency’s goals? Are you always busy, but making little progress? If the answer is yes, join the not-so-exclusive club ...
Project Management • • 11 min read
Have you ever heard of the term Work Breakdown Structure? Or perhaps wondered how it can help your project management efforts? If this is your first time getting familiar with WBS, you should know this is a visual tool that helps track and define a project deliverable and other small components required ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
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Most people aren't born with leadership skills; they must be earned through hard work and practice. You can lead your team in many different ways! In fact, a great leader often chooses to combine a couple of management styles, depending on the situation and need.If you want to motivate your team members ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Requirements Traceability Matrix is a document that traces and identifies user's requirements with test cases. RTM captures all the requirements proposed by a client and requirement traceability in one form. With the help of the Requirements Traceability Matrix, you are showing the relationship between ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Hello everyone, Welcome to our latest monthly recap! We'll be talking about what progress we've made with our features throughout the month, as well as where our focus will be during June. In April, we had a couple of interesting improvements: default client visibility, project names within the Stopwatch ...
Recaps • • 2 min read
Communication is one of those things that is deceptively simple. It’s a walk in the park when it’s going well, but it can feel like a Herculean endeavour when it’s not. But we can all agree that it’s essential for the success of any agency or business.According to 74% of employees surveyed, they ...
Team Collaboration • • 8 min read
To stand out among your competitors, you need a strong team. A-players. Die hards. You might have that already, but are they synced? How do they perform together?Regardless how good individualy they are, if they're not working together, you have a bunch of high functioning silos and taking a responsibility ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read