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
If you are a project manager and don’t know what a scope creep is, you are either new to the gig - or just extremely lucky. But don’t worry, it happens to the best of us.The scope creep is an uncontrollable expansion of project goals that were not previously agreed upon. It usually starts off small ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
You say that you think things through when setting your goals. But, are you actually being smart about it?If businesses were to set their primary goal, it would boil down to something like: “Earn as much profit as possible.” However, if you were to give this task to a new employee (and leave it at ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
Customer story written by Gem Muzones, Content Marketing Manager at SpiralyticsIn less than three months, we were able to increase our client base from 30 to 44 (almost 50%)Here at Spiralytics, we operate like a small business to encourage flexibility and creative freedom. So, it’s vital to us that ...
Customer Stories • • 4 min read
How to Master Project Management with a Single ToolJumping from one tool to another can be a huge energy drainer. Stop wasting your energy trying to be productive. Instead, choose one centralised hub that will help you master the art of project management.As a fully-fledged project manager, you’ve ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Change can be hard to swallow, especially if your team isn’t familiar with the benefits it brings. Be proactive and help your team realize that a new project management tool is not a means of control but a perfect way to move the business forward.Propelled by the idea that one tool would minimize multitasking ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
Customer story written by Nirav Dave, CTO & Co-founder of Capsicum MediaworksHi, I am Nirav Dave, CTO & Co-founder of Capsicum Mediaworks, a WordPress services agency in India. I have been using ActiveCollab since 2015, and it proved to be an excellent choice: it helped us improve communication between ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Customer story written by Jeff Wright, owner of mobile digital agency LineWeightAs a web and mobile design agency that also provides copywriting, marketing, photography, here at LineWeight, we needed a project management system that could not only handle the diversity of our project types but also seamlessly ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Your creative process is halted because you’re not getting good feedback from clients. Likes and dislikes aren’t getting you closer to finishing project. Worse still, you’re wasting too much time waiting for an email that tells you very little about what’s really important.You have been using ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Written by Izaak Crook, Digital Marketing Executive at AppInstituteRead how Izaak, a digital marketing executive from AppInstitute, uses ActiveCollab to keep content marketing processes running smooth.I’m Izaak, I work as a Digital Marketing Executive in the Marketing Department at AppInstitute, one ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
Does your workplace rock or has it hit rock bottom? If you asked your teams to describe the culture at your organization, would they say it’s awesome and vibing, or lousy and draining? These words matter and carry more weight than you can imagine. Because the way your people feel at work, directly ...
Team Collaboration • • 10 min read
Rational Unified Process is the ultimate guide for assigning tasks and responsibilities within a development organization and developing high-quality software that meets the needs and requirements of its users. It was initially created by the Rational Software Corporation which IBM bought out in 2003 ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Big companies generally have a problem of being too slow, with too much WIP, and too many features in the backlog.Traditionally, big companies would need 6 months for gathering requirements, another 6 for development and testing, plus worry if they have an opening in their development schedule and capital ...
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