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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Stop Using Too Many PM Apps

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

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Project Management Tool Is Not an Employee Monitoring Software

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

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4 Reasons Why You Need a Project Management Tool

Do you feel like you’re wasting time, money and energy on repetitive tasks and manual data collection. Start saving right away by using a project management software that can help you centralize your collaboration, project and workload management, and hold your processes in line.There’s much talk ...

Project Management 3 min read

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Organizing Web Design Workflow With ActiveCollab

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

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Building Company Website With ActiveCollab

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

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Client Feedback - Key To Customer Expectations

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

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How ActiveCollab Simplified Our Content Marketing Process

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

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How To Create A Rocking Organizational Culture

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

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Rational Unified Process (RUP)

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

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Agile Project Management in Enterprises

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 ...

Project Management 3 min read

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How to Manage and Lead Creative Teams

Some managers believe that handling and leading a team of creatives can be very similar to taking care of preschool children: they sleep (procrastinate) when they want, they play (work) when they see fit and often whine if things are not to their liking. But does this group delivers results? Oh boy ...

Team Collaboration 6 min read

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Self-Hosted vs Cloud-Based Project Management Tool

Is it better to use self-hosted or cloud version of ActiveCollab? They both have the same features so the decision depends on the structure of your company.Self-hosting is great if you plan on using ActiveCollab for more than a year and/or have a lot of team members.If on the other hand you don't want ...

Product 4 min read