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244 posts by ActiveCollab Team

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Project Baseline – What is it & How To Create it in 5 Steps

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

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How To Avoid Out of Scope When Managing Your Projects

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

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ActiveCollab 8.0: User Card, Pin Discussions

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

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MoSCoW Method of Prioritization: What Is It & How It Works

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

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Time Blocking: Fail-Proof Guide For Ultimate Productivity

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

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ActiveCollab 8.0: Improved Search and Task Navigation

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

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Eat The Frog: tackle the hardest, important tasks first

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

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ActiveCollab Is the Backbone of Our Work

Havelkadesign was created in Osijek (Croatia) by interior designer Jelena Havelka, who holds an MA in Interior Design diploma from the prestigious University of Westminster in London. Last year the company celebrated its first decade of successful work.Our StoryThe business adapted through the years ...

Customer Stories 1 min read

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ActiveCollab 8.0: Upcoming Early Access Program

Hello everyone,We’re finally back from our holiday break and ready to deliver some great news on what we’ve been up to and what’s planned for the upcoming months! In our previous recap, we talked about the storage indicator in the Project Info and the time indicators that will be visible in the ...

Recaps 2 min read