There are two ways of organizing activities and tasks: randomly stacking or sensibly sorting them. Unsorted piles of tasks make finding what you’re looking for more challenging. ActiveCollab will help you organize your tasks effortlessly to maintain a laser focus on work.
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Organizing a project means assembling, grouping, and ordering tasks. ActiveCollab is a project management software that allows project managers and teams to stay on top of their work. With the help of ActiveCollab, you can overcome organizational hurdles by successfully managing deadlines, teams, and budgets. ActiveCollab is a user-friendly, customizable, and adaptable tool that fits any project management methodology.
Waterfall project management is used for projects divided into distinct stages that move step by step toward the ultimate release. The timeline view in ActiveCollab provides a better overview of your tasks in the project for those using Waterfall. Schedule tasks, connect them with dependencies, quickly move them around, and rely on automatic rescheduling using the timeline view.
Agile is the best when it comes to responding to changes. The three customizable views in ActiveCollab let you adapt and make changes quickly. You can easily switch the assignee on a task, adjust the budget, or set the time estimate in a clear overview of your choice. ActiveCollab, with its multiple task views, is flexible, adaptable to fast-paced work environments, and perfect for Agile teams.
Scrum teams are small, agile, and effective. ActiveCollab provides scrum teams with a customizable view of the project and lets them choose from three task views. Some people work best when crossing items off, while others need a visual representation on a timeline. ActiveCollab lets each user choose their view of the project without affecting how other users view it.
ActiveCollab’s Column view allows users to move assignments through task lists using the drag-and-drop method. Completed tasks automatically populate the completed column, and all the events are updated in real-time. Use the column view for complex projects and stay in the loop with a single glance at the team’s progress.
What does it all look like in practice? ActiveCollab in practice offers three ways to view your projects, and each can accommodate more than one methodology.
The list view lets you break down a project and create a to-do list containing actionable items. Specific assignments can be highlighted as "High priority" and used as milestones. A list view offers a clear overview of all the tasks, their due dates, and assignees. You can also add labels and easily filter out tasks to find what you need. However, it doesn’t show the dependencies between tasks, and not all task lists are visible on one screen if they contain many tasks.
When more task lists need to be visible at once, the Column view is the best option. Based on the Kanban project management methodology, it can be successfully implemented in all industries. Start by creating three columns: To do, In progress, Done. Depending on their urgency and current status changes, the tasks can be moved within or between those columns. Even though it allows you to see all assignments at once and quickly drag and drop them, you cannot see dependencies between tasks and filter them by the due date.
The Timeline view is modeled after the Gantt chart and best suits a team using the Waterfall methodology. In the ActiveCollab timeline view, you can move the tasks, change their start and due dates, and create dependencies between them. This view is perfect for projects with various consequential phases, giving a visual timeline. In this view, you can check out task dependencies, but you won’t be able to see all tasks at once.
In ActiveCollab, you can create as many projects as you like! Fill them up with tasks grouped in task lists, and choose one of the three views: the list view, the column view, or the timeline view. How you view your project doesn't affect how others see the same project, and you can quickly switch between the views to find what you need.
If your business relies heavily on files, review them in the individual projects' "Files" tab, which lists chronologically all the files attached through comments or within tasks. The Calendar lets you select one or more projects to view them on a monthly calendar. Check out Workload to monitor your teams' tasks and use filters for a better overview.
“Nowadays, working by iterations and validating work is essential (at least in the software development industry). ActiveCollab has facilitated this methodology as it allows creating task lists to know if the tasks are in CYCLE, DOING, or DONE."
Organizational development @ Arisnova
"We now create client buckets, and inside each are columns that organize each project's status in various phases. We have an "Ideas" column, "Working," "Active," "Client Review," "In Production," and a few more as we need. This has helped us move amongst clients and projects fluidly while keeping team members up-to-date."
Brand Designer @ Whitespace
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