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
You’re project has gone into implementation mode. While everyone on the project team gets knee-deep into their action items, you, the project manager, try to stay across all the moving parts. The deadlines, the budgets, the roll out of deliverables that have dependent tasks attached to them, and the ...
Project Management • • 9 min read
Staying within the defined scope of your project helps you deliver on the deliverables you agreed upon within a reasonable timeframe. However, out-of-scope happens to be one of the biggest challenges project managers face during project management. Since no project is immune to out-of-scope, you need ...
Project Management • • 7 min read
Before a problem or challenge can be solved, it needs to be fully understood. The same goes for product launches and marketing strategies. If you want a product or campaign to deliver, you need to know exactly what the customer wants, and what the business can endure.Forbes tells us two key reasons why ...
Project Management • • 10 min read
We have great news for all those agencies and freelancers working on a retainer. As the title says, ActiveCollab now has a new feature in the project budget area!Retainer DefinitionBefore we get started, let's pause for a moment and define what's a retainer. Sometimes, service providers find clients ...
Product • • 3 min read
Hello everyone,Welcome to May's edition of ActiveCollab's updates! Our previous recap discussed the Self-hosted upgrade and the development of version 8.0. This time, we'll talk about user cards and pinned discussions.User CardIn ActiveCollab 8.0, it will be possible to open a user's card throughout ...
Recaps • • 2 min read
Hello everyone,Welcome to another ActiveCollab recap! In our previous post, we talked about the Search box improvements and easier task navigation that will be available in the upcoming new version. This time, we'll discuss the upgrade for our self-hosted users and the progress we've made in developing ...
Recaps • • 2 min read
Don’t you just wish putting together a high-performing team was as simple as getting the best individuals together and then watching as magic takes place? Unfortunately, that sort of thing only happens in the movies.Or does it? When you really think about it, people not getting along at first, but ...
Team Collaboration • • 8 min read
You have probably uttered the phrase “greater than the sum of its parts” so many times in your life without giving it much thought. But as cliched as it might sound, that is the exact philosophy behind every great team.Research shows that 97% of workers and employers believe that a lack of team alignment ...
Team Collaboration • • 8 min read
Your list of project requirements is endless. The time frame, tight. The budget, minimal (there’s a shocker). And your resources, scarce. Even with the most optimistic, go-getter attitude and mindset, you know meeting the deadline with the full list of priorities delivered is an impossible feat. Whenever ...
Project Management • • 8 min read
Just because you’re working long hours doesn’t mean you’re being productive. In fact, according to Business News Daily, research has found that overtime is the one thing that’s likely to lead to lower levels of productivity. So, what increases productivity, then? We did a bit of reading, and ...
Productivity • • 12 min read
Hello everyone,Welcome to the latest recap of ActiveCollab’s updates! Last time, we talked about how your changes will be synchronized with the current version if you’re trying out ActiveCollab 8.0 and vice versa. This time, we’ll discuss new search options and easier task navigation.Improved SearchPerhaps ...
Recaps • • 2 min read
What’s the very first thing you do at the start of your working day? Do you ease into it with some cruisy email responses, or do you jump straight into the hard tasks? The ones you’d like to ignore, but know you can’t because they’ll keep coming back to stare you down. The ones that seem to evolve ...
Productivity • • 8 min read