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
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
Billing is too important to leave it to your accountant. You want to bill quickly and often bill to keep money coming in at all times - the last thing you want is to miss payroll and lose employees.But to bill often, the process has to be really quick and simple. Otherwise, you'll keep putting off creating ...
Project Management • • 5 min read
Industry stats say that less than 1/3 of all projects are completed on time and budget. It doesn't have to be this way. This high failure rate makes a project manager's job one of the most difficult in any industry. Most of the failed projects follow these 6 stages:Stage 1: EnthusiasmStage 2: DisillusionmentStage ...
Project Management • • 13 min read
As much as 20% of project managers list documentation as the most common they would like to eliminate, and 5% of them list project planning and scheduling as their least favorite activities. Really? Is project planning and documentation such a nightmare for project managers? While project planning is ...
Project Management • • 11 min read
Automating work has been a dream for managers worldwide for decades. Getting rid of tedious assignments such as creating the same assignments repeatedly, rescheduling them according to unpredictable circumstances, and fitting together regular activities with occasional ones is ActiveCollab's goal. We've ...
Product • • 3 min read