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
Imagine having a team of 400,000 people working for years on a project that could change the notion of what was previously thought of as possible. Succeed, and you get a glowing page in the history books. Fail, and you waste billions of dollars, and potentially, three human lives.Oh, and the entire thing ...
Team Collaboration • • 7 min read
Today, Agile is such a buzzword that even teams outside software development try to incorporate it into their workflow. But Agile is not for everyone.For example, a marketing agency can never implement Agile, because clients don't want to pay for a half-finished marketing campaign and iterate. There ...
Project Management • • 3 min read
When people share an elevator ride, they are a group; when the elevator gets stuck, they become a team.Individuals that get on the same elevator most likely share some things, like: they work in the same building and on the same floor, or they may work for the same boss and have similar interests. The ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read
Teams can be divided into four main groups: project teams, self-managed teams, virtual teams, and operational teams. What type of team you have depends on its purpose, location, and organizational structure. Each type of team comes with its unique set of strengths and weaknesses. In order to fully utilize ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read
What is self-hostingSelf-hosting is when you download some software, install it on your own server, and access it from the URL and the server that you own.There are desktop apps, mobile apps, web apps, and hybrid apps:Desktop app is installed on a computer and only the person using the computer can access ...
Product • • 5 min read
The waterfall is a project management approach where a project is completed in distinct stages and moved step by step toward ultimate release to consumers. You make a big plan upfront and then execute linearly, hoping there won’t be any changes in the plan.When you take traditional project management ...
Project Management • • 8 min read
Instead of retelling the same old stories about the best teamwork practices from companies such as Google, Chevron, or the Southwest airlines (which don’t really help when you have a small-to-medium team), we decided to find real-life examples of successful teamwork.We asked everyday entrepreneurs ...
Team Collaboration • • 6 min read
Do you do things by the book, or do you like to improvise? Both have their benefits in various situations. However, in project management, going by the book might be a smarter choice. According to a PMI report, two key culprits cause project and program failure. The first is a lack of clearly defined ...
Project Management • • 11 min read
“A project manager is like a doctor who leads the trauma team and decides the course of action for a patient - both at the same time. Without the right kind of authority to efficiently handle all the project management issues, development teams can easily get into trouble.” - Scott Berkun, the author ...
Project Management • • 7 min read
Written by Vesna Savic, Community Manager at PopArt StudioHere at PopArt Studio, a full-service digital agency from Novi Sad, we handle a lot of complex projects that require a lot of planning and extensive client collaboration. However, that’s not always easy, especially for our project managers ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
New Zapier integration in ActiveCollab 5.13The biggest time waster in every company is moving data between apps and updating records manually. But there's an easy solution: automate the boring stuff with Zapier, a service that lets your apps talk to each other.ActiveCollab is now integrated with Zapier.ActiveCollab ...
Product • • 4 min read
The 3 Stages of HiringWhen you start to grow your business, you're going to do a lot of hiring. Hiring will no longer be a rare activity you do once every 3 months. Instead, it will be a constant process of attracting new candidates, figuring out who’s the best, and keeping the talent pipeline full.You ...
Growth • • 4 min read