Dragana is a content writer and productivity expert with 15 years of experience helping SMEs make sense of time management, workflows, and efficiency. She’s written for financial institutions, B2Bs, SaaS startups, agencies, and solopreneurs, turning complex ideas into clear, actionable insights.
Dragana's bread and butter is connecting the dots between processes and profitability as smoother workflow means a healthier bottom line. What actually makes her a subject matter expert is deep understanding of aligning time, people, and priorities. Her expertise in workflow optimization and financial insights helps founders make data-driven decisions, from tracking key metrics to managing cost overruns.
Whether it’s breaking down key business metrics, optimizing workflows, or helping teams avoid common productivity pitfalls, Dragana loves turning numbers into stories and strategies. If you’re running a service business and feeling the growing pains, she’s here with the insights, tools, and real-world advice to help you work smarter, not harder.
Delegation is an essential leadership skill. Especially for growing businesses. As your client base and service offerings grow, you come face-to-face with the fact you can’t take care of everything on your own. You realize you need to start delegating and fast. If you don’t, you’ll either lose ...
Question: What’s the best way to present your project to a group of stakeholders? A: A project roadmap, B: A 20-page Project Initiation Document, or C: A project plan?If you're struggling to answer this question, don’t worry, you’re not the only one. We get it: project management can get a bit ...
Slack time tells you how much wiggle room a task has before it delays the whole project. Knowing how to calculate it helps service businesses stay flexible, spot risks early, and keep timelines from slipping when things get messy. But how to do it properly?
Deliverables are the tangible results your project promises, the stuff clients actually care about. From documents to designs, knowing what counts (and what doesn’t) keeps teams aligned, clients happy, and scope creep from sneaking in through the back door. But in project management...?
Think Agile won’t work for your service business? That’s what most teams assume, until they try the right approach. These 5 steps show how to adapt Agile to client-facing work, avoid the usual pitfalls, and build a process that’s fast, flexible, and clear.
Effective team communication isn’t just about talking more, but about talking better. These 7 ways help your agency cut through the noise, align faster, and actually enjoy working together (yes, even on deadline days).
Task dependencies are the links that tell you what needs to happen before something else can start. Miss them, and your project turns into a traffic jam. Managing them well means smoother workflows, fewer surprises, and deadlines that stay where they belong. But how to manage them?
On a scale of 1-10, how good of a project manager (PM) are you, and what makes you so great? You’d probably say it’s your project delivery success rate. And you would be right. But do you know what gets you there? The Project Management Institute says highly effective PMs get results thanks to the ...
A positive organizational culture isn’t about ping-pong tables or forced smiles, but about trust, clarity, and how people treat each other when things get tough. Get it right, and you’ll build a team that performs, sticks around, and actually enjoys showing up on Monday.
Do you do things by the book, or do you like to improvise? Both have their benefits in various situations. However, in project management, going by the book might be a smarter choice. According to a PMI report, two key culprits cause project and program failure. The first is a lack of clearly defined ...
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 planning and documentation such a nightmare for project managers? While project planning is ...