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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Project Post Mortem Meeting

You completed the project on time; your clients are satisfied with the final deliverable, so now is the time to kick back and relax and think about other projects, right? Well, before you and your team can share celebratory drinks, there is one final piece of work that remains: a postmortem meeting.These ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Premortem Analysis - Prevent Project Failure

How many times have you been more engaged in pointing fingers and blaming other teams for project failure than actually trying to solve the problem? Postmortem meetings are tricky because people tend to be more focused on blame than learning from their mistakes.Postmortem analysis helps your project ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Project Management Tips for Startups

What is considered a startup?This question is quite challenging to answer because no one has managed to figure out a universally accepted definition. Startup is a company in its early stages of development with the tendency of fast growth. It usually features 1–3 founders who focus on capitalizing ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Upgraded Editor, Activity Grouping

Hello everyone,Welcome to 2021 and its first monthly recap. Last time, we took a chance to review all the changes and additions of ActiveCollab throughout 2020 - we hope you enjoyed it! This month, we'll go through a couple of implemented improvements and our plans for February.Upgraded editorAnother ...

Recaps 2 min read

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18 Key Questions to Ask Your Web Design Client

So, your client needs a website. You are a web designer, and the project should be done in a week or two, right? Well, it depends on numerous factors. It's a commonly known fact that clients will ask you dozens of questions during the meeting, which at some point starts to become tedious. Now we ask ...

Marketing 4 min read

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ActiveCollab Annual Updates: 2020

As unbelievable as it sounds, 2020 has come to an end. We've all had our ups and downs, as individuals and as collectives. It's always nice to look back and see what we've been through, the mistakes made, and lessons learned. So, that's precisely what we intend to do in this article! Join us on the journey ...

Recaps 3 min read

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New My Work Launched, Red Dot Browser Notification

Hello everyone, Welcome to another recap of our last month's updates! We'll keep it short this month. My Work makeoverIt's finally finished! We're pleased to present the brand new look of My Work. Here's an overview of the main changes:Everything's neatly tucked in tabsAvailability records addedSorting ...

Recaps 1 min read

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A Brand New Look of My Work!

For those of you new to ActiveCollab, a page within the app is dedicated to tasks assigned to you, your time records, and your activity - it's called My Work. You can use it to organize your day-to-day, and get a full insight into what you've been doing and what needs to be done. For those who have been ...

Product 3 min read

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How to Become a Project Manager?

Nowadays, every job is framed into a project. Whatever we want to undertake professionally has a start and finish date, a scope or goal, a defined budget, and a detailed list of the necessary people to make it all happen. Many different types of teams are involved, and there's usually just one person ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Refurbished My Work, Notification Bell EAP, Invoice QR Code

Hello everyone,Welcome to the latest ActiveCollab updates! This month, we'll be exploring the same topics, plus one more: adding QR codes to your invoices.My WorkAll our users got the option to group tasks assigned to them by the due date! Also, you can collapse and expand task lists by date or project ...

Recaps 2 min read

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White Space: In ActiveCollab, Everything Has Its Place

My name is Audrey, and I am a designer for Neighborly Creative (formerly White Space), an independent branding agency located in Rochester, MN. We focus on developing, launching, and building brands. It's not just any branding agency! We are a small but mighty team that focuses on relationships and ...

Customer Stories 3 min read