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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 get us wrong, we love Medium and we'll continue to publish there. But here’s why ...
Product • • 4 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 and with no physical office, this tool would be the backbone of our company.We tried a simple setup ...
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 to attach an event handler to do something when you click a button on a web page. You’d create a button ...
Labs • • 2 min read