No fluff – just actionable guides for planning, tracking, and optimizing project management processes
Project managers are a vital part of any organizational structure, and they are in charge of tasks across every aspect of a business. They have to handle the budget, schedule meetings and work, manage people, among many other things.If we had to define a project manager's responsibilities in one sentence ...
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How many times have you been more engaged in pointing fingers and blaming other teams for project failure than actually trying to solve the problem? Postmortem meetings are tricky because people tend to be more focused on blame than learning from their mistakes.Postmortem analysis helps your project ...
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What is considered a startup?This question is quite challenging to answer because no one has managed to figure out a universally accepted definition. Startup is a company in its early stages of development with the tendency of fast growth. It usually features 1–3 founders who focus on capitalizing ...
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Nowadays, every job is framed into a project. Whatever we want to undertake professionally has a start and finish date, a scope or goal, a defined budget, and a detailed list of the necessary people to make it all happen. Many different types of teams are involved, and there's usually just one person ...
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When it comes to running your own business or a digital marketing agency, we know that there are many opportunities for failure. Some of them are inevitable, but the best way to avoid failure is to remain vigilant, motivated, and engaged with your goals and business.You're all probably tired of reading ...
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Balancing between billable and non-billable time is a constant challenge for most agencies, consultants, freelancers, and other contractors. It's safe to assume that companies and teams want to bill as many hours as possible. But one of the most effective ways to land new clients - and gain an opportunity ...
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Whoever thinks there is such a thing as a risk-free project needs to pass over that cup of optimism around and take a sip of realism instead. Project management, as well as life, is full of risks. To quote Baz Luhrmann: "The real troubles in your lifeAre apt to be things that never crossed your worried ...
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The first step in eliminating waste is to identify it by breaking down all business processes visually and finding opportunities to get rid of any activities that don't add value to customers. The Lean methodology defines seven types of waste that need to be eliminated so that processes can be optimized.Two ...
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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?
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Experiment [noun] - “A procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis. Experiments provide insight into cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated.”Before you even start thinking about performing an experiment, its value must ...
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In our previous post, we talked about setting a S.M.A.R.T. goal and said we'd give you an example from our own yard, so here it is!This is how we do itWe thought it would be nice to suggest you try out ActiveCollab in your native language. So, if you’re from Portugal and you’re visiting our site ...
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If you are a project manager and don’t know what a scope creep is, you are either new to the gig - or just extremely lucky. But don’t worry, it happens to the best of us.The scope creep is an uncontrollable expansion of project goals that were not previously agreed upon. It usually starts off small ...
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