The latest news about ActiveCollab's updates and new features.
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 ...
Project Management • • 20 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 ...
Project Management • • 16 min read
Processes are tedious as hell, but if you don’t set them up, you'll waste time, miss deadlines, go over budget, infuriate your clients, and never work again.Thankfully, most digital projects don't require elaborate ...
Project Management • • 6 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 ...
Product • • 4 min read
Everyone in software development keeps a long list of suggestions and feature requests in a file. Or two. But there are not enough hours in a day or a number of developers on a team to get them all done ...
Product • • 9 min read
Our relationship with Gantt is a turbulent one. Looking back, it shows us more than just how to design a feature. It’s a tale of trial and error, evolution, and ultimately, success on our own terms.Powerful Enough ...
Product • • 4 min read
A case study on how we wrote and designed our ebook from start to finishWe wrote a massive ebook about all the tools we use in our company: we covered a lot of processes in detail and illustrated everything ...
Design • • 9 min read
Easier token issuing and authenticationWe're happy to announce that ActiveCollab API wrapper for PHP is hitting version 3.0, bringing easier token issuing and authentication. Token issuingThere are now two ...
Labs • • 2 min read
Why you shouldn't move your company blog to MediumWe moved our whole blog to Medium in July 2015. Now we're moving it back where it belongs - on our website. The reasons we're moving are strictly business related.Don't ...
Product • • 6 min read
How a small, two-hour investment can save hundreds of hoursIt took me a couple of hours, but I managed to automate two big processes:Migrating extremely big ActiveCollab accounts (which can take more than ...
Labs • • 5 min read
Mark Gjaltema, Chief Rebel from Rebel Projects, shares his storyWhen Rebel Projects started to grow a few years ago, we went looking for an online collaboration tool. Since we only work with freelancers ...
Customer Stories • • 2 min read
I was refactoring ActiveCollab’s datepicker and came across a problem: to close the popover, I’d always have to trigger one extra keypress event.Chrome’s debuggerCommonly, you’d use JavaScript ...
Labs • • 3 min read