Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Social connection is key to preventing chronic stress and workplace burnout.

Let’s discuss the age-old debate between two popular estimation methods in IT project management – story points or hours. As every project manager knows, accurately estimating time and effort is crucial for ensuring the successful completion of a project. But with various approaches available, finding the right method that aligns with your team’s needs can be daunting. Fret no more!

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When employees waste time logging into multiple platforms and apps each day, they inevitably become frustrated. Their frustration is relatable, as doing things in the most inefficient way possible can wear anyone down over time. And it doesn’t take long for this frustration to transform into resentment, naturally spilling over into their work in multiple damaging ways.

Shared services are a way for organizations to centralize and consolidate business operations. Although IT Service Management (ITSM) practices were originally developed for IT, many departments across businesses that provide and receive services on a daily basis have recognized its utility and started to incorporate some of its best practices. The shared services approach provides a common ground to do exactly this.

Effective Ticket Queue Management prevents tickets from piling up on your service desk and ensures that customer issues are addressed promptly. On the other side of the road, an overloaded ticket queue can lead to delayed responses, frustrated customers, and a drop in overall customer satisfaction. If you haven’t defined a clear ticketing process flow, or your customer base suddenly starts growing, you might find that your queue gets messier and more difficult to manage.

At Time Doctor, we are dedicated to providing innovative solutions that empower teams to reach their full potential. We understand that accountability, transparency, and trust are crucial elements for the success of any remote workforce. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the launch of our latest feature: the Unusual Activity Report.

One of the most obviously useful reasons to adopt Time Doctor is how we make it simple to track and analyze the time your team dedicates to various projects, clients and tasks. Without the need for separate project management tools, this makes it possible to understand workloads, accurately bill clients and correctly pay employees/contractors. This incredibly valuable connection between time, tasks and invoicing/payments does require some work on the back-end.

Simon Severino, a business strategy coach, has a 90-day plan for when she coaches teams on project management: “What we do in 90 days is — month one, we free up 10 to 14 hours of their time by better organizing, better processes.” This is the power of project management for ad agencies. Done right (and using the right tools), your agency can streamline processes to deliver high quality deliverables in less time. But what do the “right tools” look like?