Every manager needs a clear scope for every project in their pipeline. Without planning for project scope, how will you manage expectations effectively and avoid problems like increased expenses or missed deadlines? Let's just say no project is perfect. That's why using a project scope template is essential to plan for any surprises or potential setbacks.
Struggling to get everyone on your team connected? Has the amount of virtual team challenges increased with more remote workers? You're not alone. In fact, remote work was on the rise before the coronavirus pandemic hit. However, now businesses are quickly realizing all the various challenges of managing virtual teams–thanks to stay-at-home orders and national lockdowns.
Keeping a project on task from start to finish involves a lot of spinning plates. Juggling everything from timelines to team members can be daunting, but for the right kind of person, it can be incredibly rewarding. There’s no secret formula for successful project managers. Instead, it's all about good habits, visualizing the full scale of a project, and understanding the potential roadblocks. Seems simple, right?
Here at Teamwork, it’s our mission to make our customers efficient, organized, profitable, and happy! In order to achieve this, we continuously strive to offer the best project management software in the market. In line with recent trends and changes to the working norm caused by the pandemic, our customers, especially client and service-side users, are defining new terms for working from home. This trend has many organizations continuing to focus even more on mobile.
Last month we shared Teamwork’s first Planned vs. Actual Report in the form of a Milestones report. In that, we mentioned our continued focus on enhancing the reporting functionality throughout Teamwork. Now, we’re delighted to release the next report in this series — the Planned vs. Actual Tasks Report. The Planned vs. Actual Tasks Report keeps track of how your tasks progress against the due date that was applied when they were originally planned.
With the new Task Table View in Teamwork, efficiently managing all of your work is easier than ever before. Although still in a beta release phase, users can now access Table View by selecting the Table tab from the project’s navigation menu and begin putting this “fantastic” and “amazing feature” to use right away. Beta Program customer The new view enables users to add, track, and manage project work much faster.
As mentioned in blogs throughout the last few weeks we are currently revamping and adding multiple reports to Teamwork to help you and your team get valuable insights into your work at dedicated points in time. If you missed any of other Reports updates, you can view the Utilization Report, Planned vs Actual Milestones Report and the Planned vs Actual Tasks Report in their respective blogs.
March has been an exceptionally busy month for us here at Teamwork. We’ve been working on some really exciting projects, pun intended, over the last while and we’re delighted to finally bring them to you. After months of development, we’re ecstatic to introduce our new native iOS and Android apps! The new apps allow users to complete their work, no matter where they are, at any time of the day.
The rise of agile project management has brought a new meaning to the terms Kanban and Scrum. These terms are thrown around a lot, but there are still a lot of people who are unsure about what each framework means and what are the main differences between them. Every team works differently when mapping out the stages of a project. It helps to play to the strengths of each member and consider what each individual project demands.
What makes a team successful? And how can we learn from the best and learn from the groups that simply couldn’t connect? Great teams are often successful because they achieved their goals by overcoming adversity and obstacles. And managing high-performance teams takes a lot of trust and innovation to encourage everyone to do their best work. In fact, the 2019 Global Human Capital Trends survey found only 41% of respondents believe their company successfully leads.
