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
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 ...
Project Management • • 3 min read
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
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
You have 15 minutes at your disposal and want to know the basics of all leadership theories? This is THE post for you! It will provide you with essential information about all theories, the main idea behind each one, and a bunch of excellent links if you would like to further your research. So let’s ...
Team Collaboration • • 9 min read
"Extreme project management is the art and science of facilitating and managing the flow of thoughts, emotions, and interactions in a way that produces valued outcomes under turbulent and complex conditions: those that feature high speed, high change, high uncertainty, and high stress." - Doug DeCarlo ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Adaptive project management is a structured and systematic process that allows you to gradually improve your decisions and practices, by learning from outcomes of the decisions that you took at previous stages in the project. As the name suggests, project management process changes and adapts to the ...
Project Management • • 4 min read
Why is your team successful? Why is your team failing? Dr. Belbin has an answer.Dr. Raymond Meredith Belbin is the leading authority on team roles. His research and knowledge, which spanned more than 40 years, showed that it is more important how members fit together than how smart they individually ...
Team Collaboration • • 5 min read