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
Written by Suleiman Leadbitter, lead frontend designer & project manager at SuljamI currently run a small team in digital design, development, and consulting agency called Suljam, based in the UK in Peterborough's FutureBusinessCenter. We build web and mobile applications while also doing user experience ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
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Not all team building games are beneficial. When you’re planning team-building activities and reading about what games you can use, they might all seem good on paper but turn into a disaster when you actually try to implement them. People get bored, don’t understand the rules, or think the game is ...
Growth • • 7 min read
Processes are important. I run DigiSavvy, a Los Angeles WordPress development agency, so I know the value of standards, workflows, and procedures.I know I need a project management process and that I should probably read those books about Agile. I also know I should probably take that nail out of my ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
Written by Irina Gutnik, marketing manager at GBKSoftMost of our customers come to us with just a bare idea or a set of problems they want to solve. Therefore, 90% of our projects start from scratch: no detailed concepts, mockups, wireframes or specifications. Considering that we usually run from 4 ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
The job of identifying key players in your company is too important to be left to HR (if you even have it). As a small/medium business owner, you should personally work on keeping your top talent. After all, those people are the reason why you’re in business and if you want to keep it growing, you ...
Growth • • 3 min read
A year in reviewIt's always a pleasure to take a step back and reflect on the past year. While 2016 wasn't as exciting as the last year (after all, you don't get to launch a completely new product every day), it improved in every regard since 2015.2016 was great for several reasons: we started to listen ...
Recaps • • 4 min read
Having a good project manager can make or break your organization, especially if you are running a small business or a startup. So, hiring a project manager should be a no-brainer then, right? Right?Well, it turns out that it’s more of a question of when, not if. Hire too late, and you have chaos on ...
Growth • • 7 min read
How to do simple yet useful sprint reportingPreviously, I wrote how to delegate responsibilities and automated reports I receive from my VPs. Now, here’s an actual example of a report, so you can see how it works in real life. The example is related to the agile reporting and how I stay updated on ...
Project Management • • 3 min read
Written by Alice Jakins, Digital Traffic Manager at New Media PublishingDialogue, New Media Publishing’s digital arm, was formed to service existing digital platforms and to roll out new project work. With more and more work streaming in, we realised we needed a workflow solution to help us deliver ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
Written by Médéric Beaunier, CEO of aparticulaRead how aparticula, a European agency specialized in branding and web development, automated creating projects, how they keep their inboxes notification-free, and what else they do to make work easier - and more fun!We started using self-hosted ActiveCollab ...
Customer Stories • • 3 min read
New update Brings Less Email Notifications and Better File ManagementNow everyone can choose how much email they want to receive from ActiveCollab, plus preview files inside ActiveCollab and attach documents from Google Drive and Dropbox.Notification SettingsAre you receiving too much email from ActiveCollab ...
Product • • 2 min read
Written by David Robertson from Premium IT SolutionsI used to spend 60-80 hours a week just on keeping everyone updated. The key word here is “used to”. My company, Premium IT Solutions, managed projects for 10 years. Most of our projects were for very large financial institutions and we were collaborating ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read