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
Planning poker turns project estimation into a team sport, with fewer arguments and more alignment. It’s a simple card-based method that helps your team agree on effort without the bias or boredom of traditional meetings. A win-win for accuracy and morale. But how to actually do it?
Project Management • • 7 min read
Burnup and burndown charts both track progress, but they speak different languages. Burndown shows what’s left to do, burnup highlights what’s been achieved. If you're managing agency workflows, knowing when to use which can turn chaos into clarity.
Project Management • • 7 min read
Synchronous vs. asynchronous communication isn’t a battle. It’s a balancing act. Sync is great for quick decisions and building team bonds. Async gives space for deep work and clear thinking. For agencies juggling deadlines and clients, using both smartly is the real power move.
Team Collaboration • • 8 min read
Hello, everyone! Welcome to ActiveCollab’s latest updates! In March, we worked on ActiveCollab 8 Rollout, Time Reports, Client Invoices, and Recurring Events in Calendar.During April and May, we worked on things that were more time-consuming, so we’re making this blog post two months’ worth of ...
Recaps • • 3 min read
The project execution phase is where plans stop being pretty slides and start becoming real results. It’s where teams build, solve, and deliver. Mastering it means turning strategy into action, without losing your timeline, budget, or mind. But how to actually do it?
Project Management • • 7 min read
Not all project management tools are built for the fast-paced, client-heavy world of agencies and consultancies. In 2025, the best ones help you streamline tasks, manage teams, and impress clients, without the tech headaches. Here are 8 that actually get the job done.
Project Management • • 17 min read
AboutGEL Studios is a B Corp creative agency based in Swindon, Wiltshire. They offer a range of digital services, including marketing and branding, website and graphic design. What makes this exceptional team of 10 stand out is their approach to business. They are driven by a purpose, aiming to inspire ...
Customer Stories • • 4 min read
The term “conflict” is pretty much a four-letter word in any agency, business, or organization, mainly because it’s usually associated with disagreements, misalignment, or even worse, bullying and harassment.However, workplace conflict can also be beneficial to your team, and there are numbers ...
Productivity • • 7 min read
According to a survey of 2,000 U.S. knowledge workers, they spend only 44% of their workweek doing their primary activities. That basically means that their core activities take a backseat to stuff like meetings and emails. And it’s all because of poor time management.The most worrying thing about ...
Productivity • • 8 min read
Humans are a funny lot. We like setting and achieving goals because it gives us a sense of purpose. We like rules and routines because it keeps us in-line and organized. And we love fail-proof strategies and hacks because they promise to make us more focused, driven, productive and successful beings.One ...
Productivity • • 7 min read
No, this is not an updated version of a 2023 list. It’s the real deal: Six of the best e-invoicing tools in 2025, selected carefully to suit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), specifically. With over 99% of businesses in the European Union (EU) and the USA classified as SMEs, you would think ...
Growth • • 9 min read
Jumping from one task to another, hoping to clear as much as is humanly possible in a working day, is not productivity; it’s a recipe for disaster.When you have no plan of attack, you waste energy and time. On top of that, you also experience higher levels of stress. To avoid this, most people turn ...
Productivity • • 6 min read