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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ActiveCollab Budget Alerts

One of our teams has been intensely focused on budgets and all their aspects, for months now. In April, we released new budgeting types. If you can't be bothered to read the full post, here's a quick recap: you can now choose between three budgeting types when creating a project. Fixed price - set up ...

Product 2 min read

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What Is Strategic Project Management and How to Develop It?

Strategic project management is the next big thing within the project management community. A popular and growing trend that is slowly sweeping the business world. The main idea of the concept is based on project management teams learning how to support their company's strategy and deal with the business ...

Project Management 4 min read

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DigiSomni - ActiveCollab Brought Sanity to the Fray

My name is Ryan Li, and I am the co-founder of DigiSomni. We are focused on bringing 3D VR solutions to businesses and communities of every size. Using the open-source platform Vircadia, many groups and organizations hold their meetups and events virtually with full presence and effect despite Covid-19 ...

Customer Stories 1 min read

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Self-Hosted System Requirements Update, Summer 2020

Hello everyone,Two and a half years ago, we announced ActiveCollab 5.14, which specified new requirements needed to run ActiveCollab on your server. At the time, we switched from PHP 5.6 to 7.1 and started requiring MySQL 5.7.Today we are announcing upcoming requirement changes that will affect ActiveCollab ...

Product 2 min read

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Refreshed Column View, Project Stopwatch, Get Paid Free Tryout

Happy summer, everyone. We hope this month's recap finds you well! Here's this June's shortlist:A refurbished Column viewStopwatch on a projectGet paid bundle tryoutColumn viewA vital part of ActiveCollab since 2015, the Column view has been significantly refurbished. Just as we did with new budgeting ...

Recaps 2 min read

Not So New, but Definitely Much Improved - Column View Cover Image

Not So New, but Definitely Much Improved - Column View

The Column View rework was one of the most anticipated feature updates for many of our users. The whole user interface was rebuilt from the ground up with loads of aesthetic improvements and performance upgrades. Our goal with this update was to maintain a similar look and feel for all those who loved ...

Product 2 min read

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Roadmap Like It's the Age of Empires

For a long time, I used to think about roadmaps as lists of features that are to be built at a reasonable timeframe. Once published, I felt committed to pursuing that plan. Combine that with our limited capacity in the early years (less than ten people working on the product), and you'll understand why ...

Product 3 min read

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Target Project Budget, New Column View EAP

It seems one month is work in progress, and the next is filled with palpable results. Last month could be classified as the former of the two, this time. In April, we rolled out quite a few new features, such as Default billable status, Duplicate task lists, and New project budgeting types, which we’ll ...

Recaps 3 min read

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Bonding Remotely

It’s time to face the music: the world has changed. As one of our users put it: “Uncertainty ahead!!”, and it’s true. We don’t know where we’ll be by the end of the year. We don’t even know when we’ll be able to get back to our offices!But until we do, teams are still working together ...

Team Collaboration 3 min read

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New Project Budgeting Types

They’re finally here! New budgeting types have been released to everyone, and we know some of you have been eagerly expecting them. Time is money, so we won’t waste any of it, but rather get down to business right away.Three is the magic numberBefore: no budgeting types, you could only choose whether ...

Product 2 min read