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!

Most people would like to think that they can work all the time and never get overworked or burned out, but is it really? Working too much can lead to overwork, exhaustion, and even burnout. Many people don’t understand how overworked they may be until it is too late. The “too late” involves fatigue, exhaustion, and some other serious health problems. Since this sounds important, how do you know if you’re overworked? And more importantly, what can you do about it?

As employee accountability becomes increasingly important in the workplace, organizations seek to cultivate a positive company culture that encourages responsibility and ownership. In a company, accountability is not limited to individual employees but extends to departments and the organization as a team as well.

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?

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.

When it comes to project manager roles and responsibilities, they don many hats. They are the orchestrators, problem solvers, and the driving force behind successful projects. But with this array of responsibilities comes a host of challenges that require deftness and skill. From coordinating teams to managing resources, a project manager must navigate a complex business landscape while keeping the project on track.

A leading outsourcing servicing for US dental practices embraced Time Doctor to refine the speed, consistency and impact of its remote team’s work.

Let’s talk about something important for us all – work-life balance. You’ve probably heard this term a lot and for good reason. It’s all about striking that perfect harmony between our professional commitments and personal lives. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, it can get a bit complicated, especially when we’re talking about distributed teams.

Has your agency grown in the past few years, despite the numerous disruptions we’ve been through? If so, you’re not alone. Marketing as an industry is still growing fast. There are 54% more agencies today than five years ago, and the average staff size has grown at the same time. If you’ve enjoyed some of this growth, then it’s possible you’ve outgrown your current agency pricing model.