Every project has a life cycle: At minimum, a project has a start and an end. Those points and everything in between form the life cycle of a project. The real question is whether a business will plan that life cycle strategically through project management — or let the life cycle happen to them instead. If you ask us, we’ll tell you the first option is the way to go. Letting the project run the team rarely ends well, while proactive project planning frequently leads to success.

If you work from home, you’ve faced this dilemma: You want to show face during a video meeting to signal engagement with your job, but video meeting stress is the unavoidable consequence when you go on camera. It’s been more than two years since millions started working from home, and by this point, we’re all tired of seeing our own faces.

In OneDesk, your items exist in a structured manner. You can have: Portfolios (and sub-portfolios), Projects, and Folders. That order is basically the hierarchy from top to bottom. In other words, folders exist in projects and projects inside of portfolios (though projects can be independent also). Check out our related articles for more details on work structure. In this article I want to talk about folders and a helpful feature called “move to folder.”

Companies need to keep precise time records in order to pay employees accurately, manage overtime hours and time off, while complying with labor laws. For this, employees can create a timesheet and fill out their working hours daily. Or they could use a timesheet template to make things a little easier, like the customizable template we’ve provided. But for companies looking for an easy and efficient way to track hours, online automatic timesheets are the way to go.

What is a 4-day work week? It’s a new model of work where employees enjoy an extra day off every week. For some companies this means compressed hours on the four working days, and potentially cutting salary too. But, for Scoro, it means one day off every week, no change in hours, and no change in salary.

You want to hire a talented but affordable graphic designer, and someone suggests Upwork. All you have to do is register on this global freelancing platform, create a job posting, and then sit back as a slew of candidates jump at the prospect of working on your project. You choose the best or most experienced freelancer, and your project is good to go. Simple, isn’t it? Well, not exactly. Here’s a comprehensive Upwork review to help you make the best of this digital freelance job site!

In project management, a great deal of time is spent switching between tabs, updating task statuses, and notifying relevant teammates. Despite taking up a significant part of one’s work hours, these repetitive tasks often feel inconsequential when assessing one’s productivity. The latest Zoho Projects updates aim to reduce project delays caused by mundane yet unavoidable tasks and help teams stay on top of their schedules.

Scheduling is a key aspect of project management. Effective project management scheduling includes more than just setting the project due date. Rather, for effective planning, a project manager should ensure to define the task and project activities, estimate effort and duration, determine dependencies and monitor everything in real-time. OneDesk offers many options and helpful tools for scheduling and monitoring the progress of your tasks and projects.

Subtasks are a popular project management and helpdesk feature in OneDesk. Subtasks are great for breaking down complicated tasks into smaller ones. One stand-out aspect of subtasks in OneDesk is the fact that subtask are full-featured tasks. In many other project management applications, subtasks are ‘weak’ tasks with limited features. With OneDesk, subtasks have the same powerful functions of a regular task.

Project management is a practice that has proven to be highly beneficial to the companies that apply them well. But not all companies are successful in implementing the right project management systems. One of the key challenges most institutions fail is figuring out how to choose a project management tool in the first place.