Big companies generally have a problem of being too slow, with too much WIP, and too many features in the backlog.Traditionally, big companies would need 6 months for gathering requirements, another 6 for development and testing, plus worry if they have an opening in their development schedule and capital ...
Project Management • • 3 min read
Is it better to use self-hosted or cloud version of ActiveCollab? They both have the same features so the decision depends on the structure of your company.Self-hosting is great if you plan on using ActiveCollab for more than a year and/or have a lot of team members.If on the other hand you don't want ...
Product • • 4 min read
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Today, Agile is such a buzzword that even teams outside software development try to incorporate it into their workflow. But Agile is not for everyone.For example, a marketing agency can never implement Agile, because clients don't want to pay for a half-finished marketing campaign and iterate. There ...
Project Management • • 3 min read
What is self-hostingSelf-hosting is when you download some software, install it on your own server, and access it from the URL and the server that you own.There are desktop apps, mobile apps, web apps, and hybrid apps:Desktop app is installed on a computer and only the person using the computer can access ...
Product • • 5 min read
Agile is an approach to project management that favors responding to change over careful planning. Agile is not a methodology but a set of principles (as defined in the Agile Manifesto in 2001) that suggests how we should approach project management.There are two ways you can manage software development ...
Project Management • • 6 min read
The waterfall is a project management approach where a project is completed in distinct stages and moved step by step toward ultimate release to consumers. You make a big plan upfront and then execute linearly, hoping there won’t be any changes in the plan.When you take traditional project management ...
Project Management • • 8 min read
New Zapier integration in ActiveCollab 5.13The biggest time waster in every company is moving data between apps and updating records manually. But there's an easy solution: automate the boring stuff with Zapier, a service that lets your apps talk to each other.ActiveCollab is now integrated with Zapier.ActiveCollab ...
Product • • 4 min read
The 3 Stages of HiringWhen you start to grow your business, you're going to do a lot of hiring. Hiring will no longer be a rare activity you do once every 3 months. Instead, it will be a constant process of attracting new candidates, figuring out who’s the best, and keeping the talent pipeline full.You ...
Growth • • 4 min read
What do giants like McDonald's, Apple, Starbucks, and Walmart have in common, besides having more than 100,000 employees?They all started small with no more than a few people and then grew. Can you imagine the road Walmart had to journey from a humble Five and Dime store in Arkansas to a global empire ...
Growth • • 7 min read
Things change as you grow. Even though you still provide the same service/product, you need to change how you do it. Running a business with 40 employees is not the same as running it with 10.There are some common stages every company goes through as it grows.The most well-known growth models are Greiner's ...
Growth • • 6 min read
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Not all team building games are beneficial. When you’re planning team-building activities and reading about what games you can use, they might all seem good on paper but turn into a disaster when you actually try to implement them. People get bored, don’t understand the rules, or think the game is ...
Growth • • 7 min read
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
