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
Traditional project management is a universal practice that includes a set of developed techniques used for planning, estimating, and controlling activities. The aim of those techniques is to reach the desired result on time, within budget, and in accordance with specifications.Traditional project management ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
Search for "teamwork definition" and you'll quickly realize that there isn’t a commonly agreed definition.While many authors emphasize the importance of teamwork, they don't provide a clear and straightforward definition of teamwork. Here are a handful of definitions we managed to find:Teamwork is ...
Team Collaboration • • 5 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
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“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
Project management is a set of activities which includes initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing projects. It’s a discipline that gives you principles, techniques, and tools to help you finish things on time and within budget.The essential pillar of strength and support that holds ...
Project Management • • 4 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
What do giants like McDonald's, Apple, Starbucks, and Walmart have in common, besides having more than 100,000 employees?They all started small with no more than a few people and then grew. Can you imagine the road Walmart had to journey from a humble Five and Dime store in Arkansas to a global empire ...
Growth • • 7 min read
Things change as you grow. Even though you still provide the same service/product, you need to change how you do it. Running a business with 40 employees is not the same as running it with 10.There are some common stages every company goes through as it grows.The most well-known growth models are Greiner's ...
Growth • • 6 min read
Written by Grant Phillips, CEO at Growth Labs MarketingI have been running Growth Labs Marketing for 6 years. So far, I have tried, more or less, every single project management software including all the big ones like Asana, Trello, Jira, Basecamp, Liquid Planner, and others.All of them lacked an adequate ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
Written by Seb Dean, Managing Director at Imaginaire DigitalI am a managing director at Imaginaire Digital, a full-service agency in Nottingham that does web design and digital marketing. We have many ongoing projects, and there are a lot of moving parts and processes. In the past, we had a problem ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read