The latest News and Information on Project Management, Methodologies, Productivity and Tools.
A reliable Project Management (PM) system is crucial for achieving project goals, ensuring smooth workflows, and maximizing team productivity. However, only 25% of organizations use a PM tool in any capacity. The remaining 75% of companies still use Excel or other below-average tools. As a result, they are unable to: If you are also among the 75% who are not using any PM tool, keep reading.
Imagine a standard project where many different team members collaborate on the same project. Everyone enters new changes, which creates countless versions of the same project file. They may even be working on different files to merge them. Without a document comparison tool, this project would take so much time, and errors would be imminent due to the complexity of the task. Now, many people use Microsoft Word’s “compare” feature, but many great alternatives exist.
An agile work environment is a non-traditional workspace that allows flexible work styles and locations. While traditional offices assign employees to desks, an agile office lets teams move around the workspace to collaborate and work more efficiently. How could this type of workspace benefit your hybrid team? This guide covers everything you need to know about setting up an agile environment, including benefits, drawbacks, and a framework for success.
Are you looking beyond Jira for your agency’s project management software? Sure, Jira offers some distinct advantages. It’s an agile project management tool that gives users a way to communicate and customize workflows and complete scrum projects. It also offers several helpful integrations. But (you knew there was going to be a “but,” right?), it’s hard to learn how to use it and the interface seems outdated and confusing.
To succeed as an agency — or a business of any kind — you need a clear vision of what success looks like. Is success more revenue? More clients? Higher customer satisfaction? A Super Bowl ad? All of the above? Key performance indicators (KPIs) are a time-tested way to measure performance and the success that strong performance generates. Tracking KPIs is also a part of project management best practices.
When you’re working on a major project or toward a critical deadline, overtime hours are often inevitable. So how can you keep projects on budget? If you’ve tried tracking overtime with manual time sheets, you’ve probably found this process isn’t as reliable or inexpensive as you’d thought. For accurate overtime tracking, dedicated software is essential.